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Biden and Trump both cast January 6th as contentious issue

Dueling remarks by likely 2024 rivals President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump this weekend both sought to seize upon differing accounts of the events at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021, with Biden alleging in a Pennsylvania campaign speech that supporters of the 45th president violently attacked the US Capitol in protest of his apparent defeat in the 2020 election.

Trump for his part denied the accusations, saying that the protestors should be pardoned after having faced prosecution for confronting police officers during the protest. January 6th remains a controversial topic among wide swaths of voters, with Democrats mostly believing it was an attack with the express purpose of disrupting the Electoral College vote, with some of the protestors allegedly seeking to hang then-Vice President Mike Pence. Republican voters meanwhile believe that leftist Antifa infiltrators and FBI agents disguised as Trump supporters perpetrated the attack on the Capitol, underscoring the large gap between competing narratives about the day’s events.

Many political observers see the issue of democracy as being a key theme of the 2024 election and that whoever can gain the most momentum on it will have the advantage among voters who find it important. Former President Trump has been charged with 91 felony counts in four different criminal cases, many of which concern allegations that he harassed a Georgia elections official in a phone call and may have had other involvement in improper attempts overturn the 2020 election, while President Biden faces accusations that he may have secretly directed the prosecutions against Trump as well as efforts to disqualify his rival under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause.

All the different accusations surrounding the 2020 election, January 6th, and the efforts to remove Trump from the ballot are sure to swirl around both candidates during a heated election year.

National Zero will resume our regular news coverage now that we’ve delivered a balanced, impartial, mainstream take on the current state of American politics for folks on both sides of the aisle.

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