Midterm election: Biden, Obama, Trump rally in Pennsylvania

President Joe Biden told voters in Philadelphia this is a "defining" election for democracy. Donald Trump stumped elsewhere in the southwestern part of the state.

US President Joe Biden and former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump all converged Saturday on Pennsylvania to promote their parties days left before polls close in America’s crucial midterm elections.

During the midterms, Americans will decide who controls Congress during the last two years of Biden's first term.

With Pennsylvania one of the handful of swing states that will decide the overall balance of power, both Democrats and Republicans brought out their big guns.
Midterms a 'defining' moment — Biden

In Pennsylvania, Biden called the upcoming midterm elections a "defining" moment for US democracy.

"Democracy is literally on the ballot. This is a defining moment for the nation and we all, we all must speak with one voice," he said.

Biden added that a Democratic loss in the elections would have "decades" of consequences.

"Folks, three days, three days until one of the most important elections in our lifetime. The outcome is going to shape our country for decades to come, and the power to shape that outcome is in your hands," Biden said.

"It's a choice. A choice between two vastly different visions of America," he stressed.
Obama slams heated political rhetoric

Obama first attended a rally in Pittsburgh with Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, who currently serves as Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor. During the visit, the former president criticized heated rhetoric by political candidates, after the husband of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was attacked with a hammer.

"The habit we have of demonizing political opponents, of saying crazy stuff, it creates a dangerous climate," Obama said at the event, without explicitly mentioning Republicans.

"You've got politicians who work not to bring people together, but to stir up division and to make us angry and afraid of one another just for their own advantage, so they can take power," the former president added.

Later in the day, Obama will go to an event in Philadelphia to rally Democratic voters, with Biden also making an appearance. Both Fetterman and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro will take part too.
Trump to promote GOP candidates

Trump stumped for Republican candidates Mehmet Oz and Doug Mastriano elsewhere in southwest Pennsylvania.

"If you want to stop the destruction of our country and save the American dream, then on Tuesday you must vote Republican in a giant red wave,'' Trump told thousands of cheering supporters, describing the US as "a country in decline."