<p>Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said President Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8220;Soul of the Nation&#8221; speech on Thursday was a &#8220;slap in the face&#8221; to Republicans across the country.&#8221;</p>
<p>Appearing on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week with George Stephanopoulos&#8221; Sunday, McCaul slammed Biden for demonizing tens of millions of Americans who voted for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.</p>
<p>&#8220;If this was a speech to unify the American people it had just the opposite effect,&#8221; McCaul said. &#8220;It basically condemned all Republicans who supported Donald Trump in the last election, that’s over 70 million people, and saying that Republicans are a &#8216;threat to democracy&#8217; is really a slap in the face.&#8221;</p>
<p>McCaul noted that the speech was not carried live by any of the major broadcast networks because it was so overtly political.</p>
<p>&#8220;This was not a presidential address,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was a campaign speech before the midterm elections and that’s how I see it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Republicans blasted Biden&#8217;s address for its dark optics and grim content. In the speech, which was centered on the &#8220;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/01/remarks-by-president-bidenon-the-continued-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-nation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Continued Battle for the Soul of the Nation</a>,&#8221; Biden railed against Trump and &#8220;MAGA Republicans,&#8221; claiming they &#8220;represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.&#8221;</p>
<p>“There is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country,” Biden said.</p>
<p>McCaul criticized the heightened rhetoric on both sides of the aisle and said Biden should have tried to unify the country.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don’t think people in mainstream America particularly like the divisive rhetoric,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>McCaul said Biden should have aspired to be more like Abraham Lincoln, who focused on unifying the country during the Civil War.</p>
<p>&#8220;I wish the president could have been more like Abraham Lincoln, who did not condemn the Democrats in the South in that time,&#8221; McCaul said. &#8220;He actually brought them into the tent and I think that would be the mission I would advise for the president, I think he failed to do that in this speech that he gave.&#8221;</p>
<p>Daily Wire editor emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grim-old-man-screaming-ben-shapiro-others-react-to-bidens-dark-speech-before-eerie-red-backdrop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> blasted Biden&#8217;s speech as “the most demagogic, outrageous, and divisive speech I have ever seen from an American president.&#8221; He also critiqued the aesthetics, &#8220;[t]he red-and-black background against the front-lit visage of a grim old man screaming at Americans, fists clenched.&#8221;</p>
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