President Joe Biden's campaign released its first television ad for the 2024 election on Thursday, warning of an "extremist" threat to democracy over images of the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.
The advertisement, entitled "Cause," will get its first network showing on Saturday, the third anniversary of the historic assault by Donald Trump supporters which left five people dead.
"All of us are being asked right now, what will we do to maintain our democracy?" the 81-year-old Democrat says in a passage lifted from a speech he gave in Arizona last year.
"There's something dangerous happening in America. There's an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy," says the ad, released early on social media.
During the one-minute ad, Biden does not mention by name former president Trump -- the clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination and the man he beat in 2020.
But over swelling, dramatic music, the ad features repeated images of pro-Trump signs held by the January 6 rioters, as well as a hangman's noose brought by the protesters to the Capitol.
The advertisement, entitled "Cause," will get its first network showing on Saturday, the third anniversary of the historic assault by Donald Trump supporters which left five people dead.
"All of us are being asked right now, what will we do to maintain our democracy?" the 81-year-old Democrat says in a passage lifted from a speech he gave in Arizona last year.
"There's something dangerous happening in America. There's an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy," says the ad, released early on social media.
During the one-minute ad, Biden does not mention by name former president Trump -- the clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination and the man he beat in 2020.
But over swelling, dramatic music, the ad features repeated images of pro-Trump signs held by the January 6 rioters, as well as a hangman's noose brought by the protesters to the Capitol.
Biden's First 2024 Ad Focuses On 'Extremist' Threat To Democracy
President Joe Biden's campaign released its first television ad for the 2024 election on Thursday, warning of an "extremist" threat to democracy over images of the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.
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