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A startling new survey released on Tuesday reveals some politically devastating news for the Democratic Party. According to Rasmussen Reports, China is considered by most respondents to be the country’s biggest enemy, but Democrats are a very close second.
Here are the results of the survey:
25% say China is America’s great enemy
22% say Democrats
20% say Russia
17% say Republicans
9% were uncertain
5% say North Korea
2% say Iran
33% of Republicans say Democrats are America’s greatest enemy, compared to 26% of Democrats who say Republicans are
21% of independent voters say Democrats are the biggest enemy of America, while 18% say Republicans are
Two years ago, a Rasmussen survey “found that 24% said Joe Biden voters were American’s biggest enemy, compared to 22% who said Donald Trump voters were,” Newsmax reported.
In September prior to the midterm elections, former President Donald Trump clapped back at President Joe Biden, who had claimed during a highly controversial speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia that “MAGA Republicans” were a threat to the democratic processes of our country.
“Instead of trying to demonize half of the population, Biden and congressional Democrats should focus on stopping the killing and the bloodshed in Philadelphia and every other Democrat-run city in America, where record death and destruction is taking place every single day,” Trump told the crowd in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., during a political rally. “Biden thinks making America great again is bad for our country.
“He thinks making America great again is a threat to our country. No, making America great again is great for our country,” he added.
He went on to argue that the Republican Party is not the one “trying to undermine our democracy” but is “trying to save it.”
“There’s only one party that’s waging war on American democracy by censoring free speech, criminalizing dissent,” Trump noted. “You see that happening?
“Disarming law-abiding citizens, issuing lawless mandates and unconstitutional orders, imprisoning political protesters — that’s what they’re doing — rigging elections, weaponizing the Justice Department and the FBI, like never ever before, and raiding and breaking into the homes of their political opponents.
“I wonder who that could be? Republicans and the MAGA movement are not the ones trying to undermine our democracy. We are the ones trying to save our democracy. Very simple,” he said.
Trump declared his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination in mid-November, about a week after the midterms, in which his party did not perform as well as was widely expected.
“Our country’s going to hell,” Trump said at the Pennsylvania rally. “This election is a referendum on skyrocketing inflation, rampant crime, soaring murders, crushing gas prices, millions and millions of illegal aliens pouring across our border, and race and gender indoctrination perverting our schools.
“And, above all, this election is a referendum on the corruption and extremism of Joe Biden and the radical Democrats. Do you want to stop this destruction of America? You must vote Republican. You gotta get out and vote,” he implored the crowd.
Trump also ripped Biden’s speech optics, during which he spoke against a blood-red background with Marines visible “like the devil,” calling it “the most vicious, hateful, and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president, vilifying 75 million citizens as threats to democracy and as enemies of the state. You’re all enemies of the state.”
“He’s an enemy of the state, if you want to know the truth,” Trump continued. “The enemy of the state is him, and the group that controls him, which is circling around him: ‘Do this, do that, Joe. You gotta do this Joe, right? I think Philadelphia was a great choice to make this speech of hatred and anger. His speech was hatred and anger, by the way.
“The next morning he forgot what he said. You saw that. They asked him about: ‘Oh, I didn’t think I said that.’ He didn’t know. How do you like the red lighting behind him? Like the devil,” Trump noted further.
