McCarthy to call on Biden to apologize after 'semi-fascism' remark

Source: CNN

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy is set to take on President Joe Biden in a prebuttal speech on Thursday ahead of a prime-time address later in the evening from the President.

As part of the speech, McCarthy is expected to focus in on remarks from Biden last week in which he labeled the philosophy that underpins former President Donald Trump and those who have stood by him as "like semi-facism."

While the President's remarks focused on Trump and his supporters' ideology, McCarthy will call on Biden to apologize for calling some Americans fascists when he gives his speech in Scranton, Pennsylvania, according to a source familiar with the minority leader's speech.
"What we're seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy," Biden recently told a group of Democratic donors at a private home in Maryland.

"It's not just Trump," he went on, "it's the entire philosophy that underpins the -- I'm going to say something: It's like semi-fascism."

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