Two years in, it’s still Biden versus Trump

With two months to go until the 2022 midterms, it feels like we’re picking up where 2020 ended.  

WASHINGTON — If it’s Friday ... The New jobs report shows 315,000 jobs created in August with the unemployment rate at 3.7%. ... President Biden says democracy can’t survive under MAGA extremism. ... Former President Donald Trump holds rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Saturday. ... Inflation once again tops the list of monthly midterm TV ad topics. … Former NFL star Brett Favre gets attached to Mississippi welfare fraud scandal, NBC’s Ken Dilanian and Laura Strickler report. … And Artemis I rescheduled launch is set for Saturday. 

But first: With two months to go until the 2022 midterms, it feels like we’re picking up where 2020 ended. 

President Biden, in a primetime speech from Philadelphia, called out former President Donald Trump and his most ardent supporters. 

“Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” Biden said. 

Trump, meanwhile, heads to Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (where Biden just happened to be earlier in the week) for his own rally on Saturday, as the former president has once again been caught up in scandal, controversy and investigation.

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/two-years-s-still-biden-trump-rcna46022

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