Below Average Joe: Barely Anyone Showed Up to Biden’s Labor Day Speech

Conservative News DailySeptember 6, 2022

A small group of supporters gathered in Pennsylvania for a rally hosted by President Joe Biden and Senate candidate John Fetterman on Monday as the president sought to seize on recent party wins to gain momentum ahead of the November election.

Photos taken at the event at the United Steelworkers of America Local Union 2227 hall just south of Pittsburgh showed a crowd of several dozen supporters, eliciting criticism online for the smaller-than-average turnout. The Labor Day rally was Biden’s third Pennsylvania appearance in the last week, as he seeks to stump for Fetterman as he challenges Trump-backed candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz in November.

BIDEN TO HIT THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN WISCONSIN, PENNSYLVANIA FOR LABOR DAY

US President Joe Biden, center, speaks outside the United Steelworkers of America Local Union 2227 hall in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, US, on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. With two months to go before voters head to the polls, Biden has been ramping up his efforts to aid fellow Democrats in midterm contests that will determine whether Democrats retain their slim House and Senate majorities. Photographer: Justin Merriman/Bloomberg

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Biden’s rally coincided with appearances by Donald Trump in Pennsylvania over the weekend as the former president sought to elevate Oz in a key midterm race that could determine which party gains control of the Senate come November. Pennsylvania is seen as an especially crucial state in the midterm elections, as voters are set to pick a new governor, attorney general, and senator — choosing between Democrats and several Trump-backed candidates who echo the former president’s claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

The president seized on those claims during a prime-time speech in Wisconsin last week, seeking to weaken those candidates by warning voters about threats to democracy posed by “MAGA forces.”

“MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards,” Biden said during his speech. “Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.”

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Biden’s most recent appearances come at a crucial time as midterm elections are usually an assessment of how well a president is doing during his term, typically resulting in a shift of power in Congress if a president’s favorability is low. This spells trouble for Biden, who has been plagued with low ratings over the last several months.