WASHINGTON — On the anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, fueled in large part by lies about the 2020 election in Pennsylvania, local Democrats warned that the threats seen so vividly on Jan. 6, 2021, remain as strong as ever.
“We’re at a point now where the Big Lie is perpetuating itself,” Sen. Bob Casey (D., Pa.) said on the Senate floor.
Earlier, President Joe Biden delivered a speech at the U.S. Capitol, saying “You can’t love your country only when you win.”
He stood in Statuary Hall, where the U.S. House once met and where a year earlier rioters had violently clashed with police while pursuing lawmakers and hoping to stop the certification of a lawful election and peaceful transition of power. Biden took unusually sharp aim at former President Donald Trump, blasting him as a “defeated former president” who spread false claims that persist today and have undermined millions of voters’ faith in democracy.
“They weren’t looking to uphold the will of the people. They were looking to deny the will of the people,” Biden said. “This isn’t about being bogged down in the past. This is about making sure the past isn’t buried.”
His remarks centered a day of somber Democratic remembrances, mixed withreminders of the fear that day, the heroics of Capitol police, lingering anger, shreds of optimism and calls for voting rights reforms. It arrived, however, as the public remains sharply divided over the results of the 2020 election and, for some, the significance of the...
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