Trump team says it's BIDEN that's the real threat to democracy because he is 'waging war against it': Campaign tries to flip script before January 6 by attacking president's 'allies' trying to kick Donald off ballots

 'Joe Biden and his allies are a real and compelling threat to our Democracy. ... They are waging a war against it,' Trump's campaign arguesMove comes ahead of Joe Biden preparing big 2024 campaign launchBiden will be in Philadelphia on Saturday to mark anniversary of January 6th insurrection and in South Carolina on Monday

Donald Trump’s campaign is trying to flip the script on Joe Biden, arguing it’s the president who is the ‘real’ threat to democracy.

The charge comes as Biden prepares to kick off his 2024 campaign with a major speech in Philadelphia on the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection and as Trump fights to regain access on presidential ballots in Colorado and Maine.

‘Joe Biden and his allies are a real and compelling threat to our Democracy. In fact, in a way never seen before in our history, they are waging a war against it,’ Trump campaign advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles argued in a memo on Tuesday.

Donald Trump’s campaign is trying to flip the script on Joe Biden as the 2024 contest heats up

The two also point to the decisions by the Colorado Supreme Court and the Maine secretary of state to bar Trump from those states’ ballots in 2024, arguing it’s being done in case the federal charges against the former president don’t ‘provide the results for which they had hoped.’

‘Never in American history have these types of tactics been deployed by an opposition party,’ they write.

The former president has long claimed that the various federal trials against him are a witch hunt by Democrats who are using the government against him. Trump is facing federal charges tied to his actions during the January 6th election and on his attempts to overthrow the 2020 election results. Georgia and New York are pursing state charges against him.

But Trump’s latest attack comes the presidential campaign year has officially begun.

Biden plans to start his pitch to voters by invoking the battle to save democracy, which has long been a talking point for his campaign.

He will travel to Philadelphia on Saturday to invoke the Revolutionary War and, on Monday he will visit the South Carolina church where a white gunman massacred black parishioners.

At both events, he will highlight dark times in American history and warn that Trump is a massive threat to the principles the country was founded upon.

On Saturday, the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, Biden will deliver a speech near Valley Forge, the historic Revolutionary War site that housed George Washington and the Continental Army nearly 250 years ago.

‘The president will make the case directly that democracy and freedom, two powerful ideas that united the 13 colonies and that generations throughout our nation’s history have fought and died for a stone’s throw from where he’ll be Saturday, remains central to the fight we’re in today,’ said Biden deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks.

On Monday, Biden will speak at Mother Emanuel AME Church, the historically Black church in Charleston where nine people were killed after a gunman opened fire on a Bible study group in 2015.

‘Whether it is White supremacists descending on a historic American city of Charlottesville, the assault on our nation’s capital on January 6, or a White supremacist murdering churchgoers at Mother Emanuel nearly nine years ago, America is worried about the rise in political violence and determined to stand against it,’ Fulks noted.

Joe Biden will use the third anniversary of the January 6th insurrection to attack Donald Trump

Biden, on Monday, will speak at Mother Emanuel AME Church, the historically Black church in Charleston (above) where nine people were killed after a gunman opened fire on a Bible study group in 2015

The United States Capitol Building is seen behind the Washington Monument around dawn

While Biden is speaking in those states, Trump will be campaigning hard in Iowa, where the first caucuses in the Republican presidential nominating contest take place on January 15th.

Trump announced eight rallies to be held this Friday and Saturday, and the weekend right before the Iowa caucuses.

Biden, meanwhile, will be doubling down on his argument the former president is a threat to democracy. His campaign is increasingly seeing Trump, who has a massive led in the polls for the GOP nomination, as the president’s likely general election opponent.

Biden has gone after Trump heavily behind closed doors in fundraising, slamming him for his invoking of Nazi-type speech and charging him with being the reason Roe vs. Wade was overturned, rolling back abortion rights in many states.

Now the president looks to be preparing to make those arguments more forcefully and more publicly.

‘The threat Donald Trump posed in 2020 to American democracy has only grown more dire in the years since,’ said Biden campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez.

‘Our message is clear and it is simple. We are running a campaign like the fate of our democracy depends on it. Because it does.’

Trump, however, leads Biden in the polls. The margin is close but Trump’s lead has been steady. In the RealClearPolitics polling average on the general election, Trump has a 2 point lead.

More worryingly, Trump was beating Biden in two key voter groups, giving him an overall lead in the presidential race, the first new poll of 2024 found.

Trump leads Biden among Hispanic voters by five points, 39%-34% and among younger voters by three points, 37%-34%, according to a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll.

Biden won both those voting groups in the 2020 presidential contest, where he defeated Trump to win the White House. Monday’s poll also shows Biden is losing support among black voters, another key voting bloc.

He now has the support of just 63% of black voters, a group he carried by a whooping 87% in 2020.

The president’s trip to South Carolina on Monday will be his fourth as president as he looks to court the highly-important voting bloc.