Biden gives MAGA Republicans a new name - 'Trumpies' - and calls heckler an 'idiot' who is 'destroying democracy': President launches latest attack on 'extreme right' in Wisconsin Labor Day speech
President Joe Biden made the first of two speeches planned for Labor Day
Early on during the address he appeared to walk back his August remark comparing Trump supporters' beliefs to 'semi-fascism'
'Not every Republican is a MAGA Republican. Not every Republican embraces that extreme ideology,' the president said
But he later said as a heckler was being escorted out, 'the MAGA Republicans - that guy out that door- are destroying democracy'
Wisconsin's Democratic Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, who is running for Senate in November, was notably absent from Biden's speech
Barnes' campaign told DailyMail.com that he was participating in 'events across the state' to mark Labor Day Monday, including a Milwaukee parade
By Elizabeth Elkind, Politics Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 15:14 EDT, 5 September 2022 | Updated: 16:57 EDT, 5 September 2022
President Joe Biden rolled out a new nickname for MAGA Republicans on Labor Day during a lively speech where he also walked back comments suggesting Donald Trump's supporters believe in 'semi-fascism.'
During his speech in Wisconsin on Monday, the president denounced the former president's followers as 'Trumpies' and claimed politicians on the 'extreme right' of the GOP are 'coming for your social security' and destroying worker pensions.
At one point Biden was interrupted by a heckler - though he told Secret Service to 'let him go.'
Everybody's entitled to be an idiot,' the president said to scattered laughter.
And despite clarifying early on that 'not every Republican is a MAGA Republican,' he later painted the critic and his ilk as working to 'destroy democracy.'
'The biggest contrast from what MAGA Republicans, the extreme right...the Trumpies...is these MAGA Republicans in Congress are coming for your Social Security as well,' Biden said.
The 79-year-old leader has ratcheted up his rhetoric against the former president and his allies in recent days, ever since making a fiery debut on the midterm campaign trail in Bethesda, Maryland late last month.
It was at a private event with donors there that the president compared MAGA Republican beliefs to semi-fascism, earning instant backlash from all factions on the right.
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