Biden Touts Democracy at Famed D-Day Site in France

President Joe Biden called on Americans to defend freedom and democracy, drawing an implicit contrast with Republican Donald Trump by invoking the heroism of US Army Rangers who scaled the cliffs of Pointe Du Hoc on D-Day to take out a Nazi position.

Then-President Ronald Reagan delivered one of his most famous speeches at the same spot four decades ago, exhorting Americans not to give into isolationism and to stand up to the Soviet Union. By choosing the site, Biden sought to align himself with one former Republican president to take on another who has embraced strongmen and championed an “America First” foreign policy.

“Does anyone believe these Rangers want America to go alone today?” Biden said Friday during an 11-minute speech. “They fought to vanquish the hateful ideologies of the ‘30s and ‘40s. Does anyone doubt they would move heaven and earth to vanquish hateful ideologies of today?”

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