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Former President Donald Trump intensified his rhetoric on migration on Saturday, baselessly accusing President Joe Biden of waging a "conspiracy to overthrow the United States" during his campaign event leading up to Super Tuesday.
Trump has a long history of attacking his rivals with the intention of undermining their strengths. Biden has accused Trump of threatening democracy, referring to the former president's attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 elections. These efforts culminated in the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, when his supporters tried to stop the peaceful transition of power.
Trump, who responded by defining Biden as "the real threat to democracy" and claimed without evidence that Biden is responsible for the charges he faces, referred to the president's border policies on Saturday, emphasizing that "every day Joe Biden gives aid and shelter to the foreign enemies of the United States."
"Biden's behavior at our border is, by definition, a conspiracy to overthrow the United States," he continued in Greensboro, North Carolina. "Biden and his accomplices want to collapse the American system, neutralize the will of the real American voters, and establish a new power base that gives them control for generations."
For some time now, people who claim that Democrats promote illegal migration to weaken the power of white voters have held similar arguments, as part of a racist conspiracy, long confined to the far right, which asserts that there is an intention on the part of the liberal ruling class of the United States to systematically diminish the influence of whites.
"Again, Trump is launching an attempt to distract the American people from the fact that he ended the fairest and most severe border security bill in decades because he believed it would have favored his campaign. It's sad," said Ammar Moussa, spokesperson for Biden's campaign team, in a statement.
Trump's campaign rally took place three days before Super Tuesday, which will see elections in 16 states, including North Carolina and Virginia, where Trump held a meeting on Saturday night. The primaries represent the biggest election day of the year leading up to the general elections in November, which are shaping up as the likely rematch between Trump and Biden after the 2020 elections.
Nikki Haley, Trump's last major rival, also held her campaign event in North Carolina. In statements to reporters after her event in Raleigh, about 130 kilometers away, the former UN ambassador reserved her plans for after Super Tuesday.