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President Biden volition present remarks connected "preserving and protecting our democracy" astatine a Democratic National Committee lawsuit successful Washington, D.C., White House officials and the DNC said Wednesday. 

The president is scheduled to talk astatine 7 p.m. ET astatine the Columbus Club successful Union Station, wherever helium volition code "the menace of predetermination deniers and those who question to undermine religion successful voting and democracy," according to a DNC advisory.  

White House elder advisor Anita Dunn and Deputy Chief of Staff Jen O'Malley Dillon announced the president's impending remarks astatine an Axios lawsuit Wednesday morning. 

"Well, obviously, President Biden has been speaking astir ideology for the full clip he's been successful office. And earlier past know, I deliberation you tin expect to perceive from him this evening akin to what he's been saying implicit the people of the past respective months, that determination is simply a batch astatine stake, including democracy, and that everyone has a relation connected that," Dillon told Axios' Mike Allen astatine the Axios News Shapers lawsuit successful the nation's capital.  

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President Biden exits Air Force One arsenic  helium  arrives astatine  Hancock Field Air National Guard Base successful  Mattydale, New York, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022.

President Biden exits Air Force One arsenic helium arrives astatine Hancock Field Air National Guard Base successful Mattydale, New York, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

"I deliberation the different happening that volition beryllium truly important and thing you heard from President Biden successful 2020 was that radical are going to beryllium capable to vote. Over 25 cardinal already have. They are voting each crossed the country. You know, successful immoderate places wherever we volition person a batch of attention, focus, the votes volition beryllium counted and volition instrumentality a fewer days to beryllium counted due to the fact that that's however ideology works to marque definite each ballot is counted. So and item that arsenic good for," she added. 

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Dunn said that Union Station was chosen arsenic the venue for the president's code due to the fact that of its proximity to Capitol Hill, wherever the Jan. 6 riots took spot astir 2 years ago. 

"On January 6, we saw unit geared towards subverting antiauthoritarian processes there. So it is you know, it's an due spot to marque these remarks tonight," Dunn said. She added that astir Americans find governmental unit "abhorrent" and cited the brutal onslaught connected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's hubby Paul Pelosi arsenic a caller example. 

"[Political unit is] thing that unites astir each Americans and that we tin each beryllium agreed against. And obviously, we've seen horrible things hap rather recently, surely the speaker's husband. But it's from Capitol Hill due to the fact that that is wherever determination was an effort to subvert our democracy," said Dunn. 

Union Station. East of North Capitol Street, facing Massachusetts Avenue, North East. Designed by D. H. Burnham and completed successful  1907.

Union Station. East of North Capitol Street, facing Massachusetts Avenue, North East. Designed by D. H. Burnham and completed successful 1907.

PAUL PELOSI ATTACK: DAVID DEPAPE WAS ON ‘SUICIDE MISSION’ DURING ALLEGED ATTACK

David DePape, an amerciable migrant from Canada, faces aggregate felony charges aft helium allegedly broke into the Pelosi residence successful San Francisco connected Oct. 28 and bushed Paul Pelosi with a hammer, resulting successful injuries that forced the House speaker's hubby to acquisition country to repair a skull fracture successful summation to different injuries.

California authorities person attributed governmental motivations to the attack. Court documents filed Tuesday authorities that DePape, 42, plotted to people different national and California elected officials. 

Paul Pelosi and Nancy Pelosi, left, be  the Pre-GRAMMY Gala. David DePape, right.

Paul Pelosi and Nancy Pelosi, left, be the Pre-GRAMMY Gala. David DePape, right. (Michael Short/ San Francisco Chronicle )

Biden called the onslaught "despicable" and condemned governmental unit successful a code delivered Friday from Philadelphia.

"This is despicable. There's nary spot successful America. There's excessively overmuch violence, governmental violence, excessively overmuch hatred, excessively overmuch vitriol," Biden said. "And what makes america deliberation that 1 enactment tin speech astir stolen elections? COVID being a hoax? It's each a clump of lies."

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Fox News' Adam Sabes contributed to this report. 

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