President Joe Biden held his first major campaign event of 2024 on Friday, the eve of the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The president held the event near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania — famed as the headquarters of General George Washington’s Continental Army during the American Revolution. Biden used Washington — who famously willingly gave up power — as a contrast to former President Donald Trump. The president argued in his speech that democracy remains under threat and fundamental freedoms at risk if Trump is allowed to return to the White House. In his remarks, Biden reflected on the 2020 election and Trump's many failed efforts to overturn his defeat:
“Let's be clear about the 2020 election: Trump exhausted every legal avenue available to him to overturn the election. Every one. But the legal path just took Trump back to the truth that I won the election, and he was a loser.”
