乔·拜登总统周四参加了竞选活动，强调了一系列政策胜利因为民主党希望在今年秋天的选举中保持他们在国会的微弱多数。

“我只想非常清楚今年投票的内容，”他在马里兰州罗克维尔的一次民主党全国委员会集会上对友好的人群说，他强调了他认为选民在11月应该考虑的问题:堕胎权、社会保障、气候变化等。

“你的选择权就在今年的选票上。你从有工作的时候就开始支付的社会保障就在选票上，”他说。“你的孩子免受枪支暴力的安全就在选票上。这并不夸张——我们星球的存亡就在选票上。你的投票权就在选票上。”

“你现在准备好为这些东西奋斗了吗?”他要求干杯。“好吧，那么你需要做一件事:投票!投票!”

在演讲的其他地方，鉴于1月6日左右发生的事件，拜登对他关于失去权力给共和党人会给美国基本机构带来什么影响的论点进行了三倍的阐述，而共和党则因高油价、历史性通胀等问题嘲笑他，民调显示美国人感到失望关于拜登对经济问题的处理.

正如他以前说过的那样，拜登周四表示，“唐纳德·特朗普不仅仅是一位前总统——他是一位被击败的前总统”——因为2020年有太多人参加了投票。

“现在你需要投票来再次拯救民主，”他在洛克维尔说。

“共和党人不仅威胁我们的个人权利和经济安全，”拜登说。“他们是对我们民主的威胁。他们拒绝接受人民的意愿。他们拥护政治暴力。他们不相信民主。”

拜登的集会在民主党人扎堆的华盛顿郊区的一所高中体育馆举行，拉开了官员们所说的中期选举前紧张的竞选日程的序幕。他去马里兰州的部分原因是为该州民主党州长候选人韦斯·摩尔拉票。

白宫新闻秘书郭佳欣·让-皮埃尔早些时候告诉记者，他计划在民主党全国委员会集会上的演讲中“向美国人展示选择”。

拜登在距离选举日整整75天的时候出现，此前他在夏季取得了一系列立法胜利:几十年来第一次重大的枪支改革，民主党具有里程碑意义的医疗保健和气候变化法，以及两党共同努力促进美国的半导体生产。

“他将强调他和国会民主党人如何为工薪家庭带来成果，”让-皮埃尔周四晚上取笑他的演讲时说。“创造近1000万个就业机会，创下低失业率纪录，降低医疗成本和能源成本，通过新的枪支安全法，这是我们几十年来从未见过的。”

“他会说，他们已经采取了特殊利益，并取得了胜利，这就是民主党人所做的，”让-皮埃尔补充说。

本周早些时候，政府宣布了一项计划，取消数百万借款人数千美元的学生贷款债务，实现了拜登在2020年总统候选人时做出的一项承诺。

在集会上，拜登称之为“游戏改变者”。

该政策被共和党人痛斥为不公平，尽管许多民主党人对该计划表示欢迎，但一些在艰难的改选竞选中的立法者却与其保持距离。

俄亥俄州民主党参议员提名人众议员蒂姆·瑞恩批评此举“向数百万没有学位的俄亥俄州人发出了错误的信息，他们正努力实现收支平衡。”

“你们这些家伙担心你们可能会让更脆弱的民主党人陷入困境吗?你本可以在11月的一些比赛中冒险，”ABC新闻的白宫记者MaryAlice Parks在周四的简报会上问Jean-Pierre。

让-皮埃尔回应道:“我不会卷入政治以及接下来几周的事情。”。“但我可以说，我们所做的事情很受欢迎，我们所做的事情很重要，这将如何帮助陷入困境的家庭，这一直是总统的计划，特别是当我们关注经济并确保我们不会让任何人掉队。”

President Joe Biden kneels to pose for a picture as he participates in a Democratic National Committee rally at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Md., Aug. 25, 2022.

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在他的集会上，拜登警告说，用他的话来说，如果国会中的共和党人能够重新获得多数党的控制权，他们会做些什么----借鉴知名共和党领导人关于堕胎权和持枪权的声明。

自从最高法院推翻了Roe v. Wade案----全国堕胎合法化的里程碑式的决定----至少有15个州(许多由共和党人领导)已经停止了几乎所有的堕胎服务。包括众议院少数党领袖凯文·麦卡锡在内的一些国会共和党人提出了在全国范围内禁止堕胎的想法。

让-皮埃尔周四早些时候说:“他会说，他们仍在为保护妇女的选择权而斗争，而不是我们从另一个角度看到的全国堕胎禁令。”“学校里孩子们的安全，而不是保护全国步枪协会，正如我们从共和党人那里看到的那样，以及投票权和计票权，这在我们谈论我们的民主时非常重要。”

在马里兰州，拜登称民主党的政党路线气候、税收和医疗法案是“一件大事——有些人甚至会说这是BFD，”他说，暗指他自己多年前对患者保护与平价医疗法案的四个字母的评论。

“今年美国人民赢了，气候否认者输了，”他说

他还称赞了即将离任的马里兰州州长拉里·霍根:“我尊重保守的共和党人。我不尊重这些MAGA共和党人。”

Biden hits the campaign trail to tout a string of political wins

President Joe Biden hit the campaign trail on Thursday to highlight aseries of policy winsas Democrats look to keep their narrow majorities in Congress during this fall's elections.

"I just want to be crystal clear on what's on the ballot this year," he said at a Democratic National Committee rally in front of a friendly Rockville, Maryland, crowd as he underscored what he felt should be on voters' minds in November: abortion rights, Social Security, climate change and more.

"Your right to choose is on the ballot this year. The Social Security you paid for from the time you had a job is on the ballot," he said. "The safety of your kids from gun violence is on the ballot. And it's not hyperbole -- the very survival of our planet is on the ballot. Your right to vote is on the ballot."

"Are you ready to fight for these things now?" he asked to cheers. "Well, then you need to do one thing: Vote! Vote!"

Elsewhere in his speech, Biden tripled-down on his argument about what losing power to Republicans would do to basic American institutions, given the events around Jan. 6, while the GOP has pilloried him for high gas prices, historic inflation and more -- and with polls showing Americans feeling souron Biden's handling of economic issues.

As he's said before, Biden said Thursday that "Donald Trump isn't just a former president -- he is a defeated former president" -- because so many people turned out in 2020.

"Now you need to vote to literally save democracy again," he said in Rockville.

"MAGA Republicans don't just threaten our personal rights and economic security," Biden said. "They're a threat to our very democracy. They refuse to accept the will of the people. They embrace political violence. They don't believe in democracy."

Biden's rally, in a high school gym in the solidly Democratic suburbs of Washington, kicked off what officials say will be a ramped-up campaign schedule ahead of the midterm elections. He traveled to Maryland in part to stump for Wes Moore, the state's Democratic candidate for governor.

He planned to "lay out the choice before Americans" in his speech at the DNC rally, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre earlier told reporters.

Biden's appearance, happening exactly 75 days out from Election Day, comes after a string of summer legislative victories: the first major piece of gun reform in decades, Democrats' landmark health care and climate change law and a bipartisan effort to boost semiconductor production in the U.S.

"He'll highlight how he and congressional Democrats have delivered results for working families," Jean-Pierre said as she teased his speech Thursday night. "Creating nearly 10 million jobs and record low unemployment, lowering health care costs and energy costs, passing a new gun safety law, which we hadn't seen in decades."

"And he'll say that they have taken on special interest and won, that's what Democrats have done," Jean-Pierre added.

Earlier this week, the administration announced a plan to cancel thousands of dollars of student loan debt for millions of borrowers -- fulfilling one pledge Biden made as a 2020 presidential candidate.

At the rally, Biden called it "a game changer."

The policy has been lambasted by Republicans as unfair, and while many Democrats have celebrated the plan, some lawmakers in tough reelection races have distanced themselves from it.

Rep. Tim Ryan, a Democratic Senate nominee in Ohio, was critical of the move as sending "the wrong message to millions of Ohioans without a degree working just as hard to make ends meet."

"Are you guys worried that you might have put more vulnerable Democrats in a tough spot? That you could have risked some of these races in November," ABC News White House Correspondent MaryAlice Parks asked Jean-Pierre at Thursday's briefing.

"I'm not going to get into politics and to what the next several weeks are going to look like," Jean-Pierre responded. "But I can speak to the popularity of what we did, the importance of what we did, how this is going to help struggling families, and that has always been the plan of this president, especially as we look at the economy and making sure that we do not leave anybody behind."

In his rally appearance, Biden warned, in his words, about what Republicans in Congress would do if they are able to regain majority control -- drawing on statements prominent GOP leaders have made about abortion access and gun rights.

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade -- the landmark decision legalizing abortion access nationwide -- at least 15 states (many led by Republicans) have ceased nearly all abortion services. Some Republicans in Congress, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, have floated the idea of a national ban on abortion.

"He'll say what they are still fighting for is protecting a woman's right to choose, not a national ban on abortion, which we have seen from the other side," Jean-Pierre said earlier Thursday. "The safety of kids in school, not protecting the NRA, as we've seen from the Republicans and the right to vote and have the -- that vote counted, which is so incredibly important as we talk about our democracy."

In Maryland, Biden called the Democrats' party-line climate, tax and health bill "a big deal -- some might even say it's a BFD," he said, in winking reference to his own four-letter comment about the Affordable Care Act years ago.

"This year the American people won, and the climate deniers lost," he said

He also praised the outgoing Maryland governor, Larry Hogan: "I respect conservative Republicans. I don't respect these MAGA Republicans."