Biden-Trump debate: 'Threats to democracy,' Jan. 6 could take center stage

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Biden-Trump debate: 'Threats to democracy,' Jan. 6 could take center stage
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Protecting democracy is a top issue for voters but they're divided on trust.

In September 2020, as Joe Biden and Donald Trump debated for the first time, moderator Chris Wallace asked how they would reassure Americans the next president would be the legitimate winner that November.Trump's final words in response: "It's a rigged election."Four years later, whether American democracy is at stake is all but certain to be a key question at Thursday's debate.

That was a focus of Biden's speech earlier this month marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day, which, despite being delivered at Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, had a clear message for American viewers tuning in back home. More recently, as Trump huddled with Republicans just steps away from the U.S. Capitol to plot his second-term agenda, the Biden-Harris campaign released a 30-second ad filled with imagery from the Jan. 6 attack by a pro-Trump mob.

"I think the big thing we have to do is stop the cheating," Trump said just last week in an interview with his former press secretary, Sean Spicer. "We have to stop the fraud."

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