Biden To Deliver Pro-Democracy Message In Speeches Marking Jan 6 Anniversary

President Biden will deliver his first public remarks of the new year tomorrow, with a message on former President Donald Trump's threat to US democracy ahead of the anniversary of the Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021.

• Biden campaign manager, Julie Chávez Rodríguez, told reporters in a preview of the speech in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: "We are running a campaign like the fate of our democracy depends on it — because it does."
• Axios reports: "President Biden plans to put the deadly assault on the Capitol at the center of his re-election campaign in the same way he portrayed the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville during the 2020 campaign: as a Trump-inspired threat to democracy."
• Biden will give another speech on Monday at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina - the site of a white supremacist mass shooting in 2015.
• The White House strategy to highlight Trump's actions on January 6 comes as a new survey from the Washington Post/University of Maryland has found that, "twenty-five percent of Americans say it is “probably” or “definitely” true that the FBI instigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol."
• WaPo notes: "Among Republicans, 34 percent say the FBI organized and encouraged the insurrection, compared with 30 percent of independents and 13 percent of Democrats."