President Joe Biden honored the late Sen. John McCain on Thursday, delivering remarks in Tempe after Arizona State University announced a new library to house the archives of the longtime Arizonan.Biden’s remarks focused on how he worked across the political aisle with McCain during their years in the U.S. Senate, contrasting their story with current-day partisanship and increasing threats to democracy.“We’d argue like hell, I mean really go at each other,” Biden said about McCain, who died in 2018. “Then we’d go get lunch together.”The president used the opportunity to...

TEMPE, Arizona (AP) — President Joe Biden issued one of his most dire warnings yet that Donald Trump and his allies are a menace to American democracy, declaring Thursday that the former president is more interested in personal power than upholding the nation’s core values and suggesting even mainstream Republicans are complicit. “The silence is deafening,” he said. During a speech in Arizona celebrating a library to be built honoring his friend and fierce Trump critic, the late Republican Sen. John McCain, Biden repeated one of his key campaign themes,...

TEMPE, Ariz. -- President Joe Biden issued one of his most dire warnings yet that Donald Trump and his allies are a menace to American democracy, declaring Thursday that the former president is more interested in personal power than upholding the nation's core values and suggesting even mainstream Republicans are complicit. "The silence is deafening," he said. During a speech in Arizona celebrating a library to be built honoring his friend and fierce Trump critic, the late Republican Sen. John McCain, Biden repeated one of his key campaign themes, branding...

TEMPE, Arizona (AP) — President Joe Biden issued one of his most dire warnings yet that Donald Trump and his allies are a menace to American democracy, declaring Thursday that the former president is more interested in personal power than upholding the nation’s core values and suggesting even mainstream Republicans are complicit. “The silence is deafening,” he said. During a speech in Arizona celebrating a library to be built honoring his friend and fierce Trump critic, the late Republican senator John McCain, Biden repeated one of his key campaign themes,...

TEMPE — In his third visit to Arizona since being elected in 2020, President Joe Biden spent nearly 35 minutes at the Tempe Center for the Arts delivering a speech with dual purposes. President Biden first announced the creation of The McCain National Library, honoring his friendship and political relationship with Arizona’s late Republican Senator. However, the majority of the president’s speech was spent laying the groundwork for his 2024 reelection campaign: his fear of “the diminishment of democracy.” WATCH: President Biden speaks on legacy of John McCain during library...

Fourth speech by the president focusing on democracy to boost his reelection bid. President Joe Biden delivered a speech about democracy on Sept. 28 in Arizona, a key battleground state for the 2024 election. He took aim at his predecessor, President Donald Trump, and expressed concerns about a "dangerous" trend unfolding in the United States. “As I’ve always been clear, democracy is not a partisan issue. It’s an American issue,” President Biden said. “But there is something dangerous happening in America. There is an extremist movement that does not share...

President Biden on Thursday urged Americans to come together and unite regardless of their political affiliation but condemned Trump supporters as an “extremist movement” bent on destroying bedrock American institutions.

In a somber speech from Tempe, Arizona, Mr. Biden issued an impassioned denunciation of former President Donald Trump and the Make America Great movement. He cast the MAGA movement as an existential threat to the nation’s rule of law. He said it was “breathing oxygen” into hate.

President Biden will honor the late Republican Sen. John McCain, his longtime Senate colleague, in Tempe, Arizona, on Thursday at the dedication of a new library named for the senator and war hero. Mr. Biden will be giving a speech on what the White House has characterized as "protecting" democracy, which a White House official said Wednesday night is a "central cause of Joe Biden's presidency." Cindy McCain, other members of the McCain family and Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, are expected to be there. The McCain Library will be...

TEMPE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — A new library is set to be built at Arizona State University in Tempe honoring the late Sen. John McCain, his family announced Thursday. The John S. McCain III Library will be established on a 22.5-acre section of ASU’s campus near Papago Park. According to a press release, the library “will serve as an anchor, multipurpose facility that will provide Arizonans a place to learn, research, develop and work.” In addition to the library and archives, it will include a visitor’s center and an Arizona...

PHOENIX (AP) — On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, President Joe Biden stood in early 2022 at the literal epicenter of the insurrection and accused Donald Trump of continuing to hold a “dagger” at democracy's throat. Biden closed out the summer that same year in the shadow of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, decrying Trumpism as a menace to democratic institutions. And that November, as voters were casting ballots in the midterm elections, Biden again sounded a clarion call to protect democratic institutions, warning that their underpinnings remained under...