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- President Biden has long depicted Trump as a major threat to democracy in the US.
- Biden used the argument against the GOP in 2022, with many Democrats later praising the strategy.
- But a new WaPo-George Mason Univ. poll shows that swing-state voters are giving Trump an edge on the issue.
President Joe Biden has staked a major tenet of his reelection campaign on painting former President Donald Trump as one of the biggest political threats to democracy in the US.
It was an issue that Biden played up heavily against the GOP in the 2022 midterms, issuing a stern warning a week before the election where he argued that "democracy is at risk."
"We're often not faced with questions of whether the vote we cast will preserve democracy," he said at the time. "But this year we are."