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Biden shifts midterm focus onto Trump and his MAGA base

Matthew Cranston

Washington| President Joe Biden has rallied Democrats to target Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again supporter base in a fiery speech that all but launched an early US midterm election campaign but buried key issues such as the country’s 40-year-high inflation.

Frequently interrupted by protesters outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – where the Founding Fathers debated and drafted the US Constitution – the President said MAGA forces were determined to take the country backwards.

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Matthew Cranston was The Australian Financial Review’s United States correspondent.

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