November 2, 2022 5:50pm EDT
McCarthy slams Biden for 'dividing the nation' ahead of speech assailing MAGA Republicans
Biden is set to deliver remarks at a DNC event blocks from the U.S. Capitol Wednesday
By Brooke Singman | Fox News
EXCLUSIVE: House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, reacting earlier in the day to news of President Biden’s political speech Wednesday night, told Fox News Digital that he is "dividing the nation instead of uniting it," and warned that the commander-in-chief could "get a very big wake-up call" on Election Day.
Biden was set to deliver an attack on Republicans at a Democratic National Committee event inside Union Station in Washington D.C., — just blocks from the U.S. Capitol — less than a week before voters cast their ballots and determine the balance of power in Congress.
Biden was set to slam Republicans and "election deniers."
But in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital Wednesday afternoon, McCarthy, R-Calif., said the American people "aren’t buying" what he described as Biden’s deflection.
"He is dividing the nation instead of uniting it at a time that we need to unite," McCarthy told Fox News Digital. "And he is doing that because he can’t talk about the policies where people are hurting—the pain of the cost of living and inflation and what they have caused."
McCarthy added: "He is trying to deflect, and the American people aren’t buying it, because every single day, they go to the store, and they can’t afford to buy things, they worry about the future of their children."
Biden, on Wednesday, previewed his remarks, saying there is a "whole lot at stake" on Election Day, saying that there are "350 [election] deniers…on the Republican ballot, everything from state house races to secretaries of state, to governors, to senators."
Biden’s DNC speech Wednesday night is expected to expand on those attacks and frame the midterms as critical for democracy, as Democrats try to hang on to power in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Biden, in a controversial primetime address from Philadelphia's Independence Hall in September, slammed "MAGA Republicans," saying they "do not respect the Constitution."
"MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love," Biden said in September.
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