US President Joe Biden has said Donald Trump is "willing to sacrifice democracy" as the Supreme Court confirms it will rule whether Mr Trump is eligible to run.
The Supreme Court decided it would consider Mr Trump’s appeal to it after the state of Colorado disqualified him from appearing on the State's primary ballot over his role in the 2021 Capitol riots.
Mr Trump is also appealing a ruling in Maine that disqualified him from ballots there.
The Trump campaign said it “welcomes a fair hearing at the Supreme Court to argue against the bad-faith, election-interfering, voter-suppressing" ruling.
“President Trump is dominating the polls, and the Biden presidency has failed all Americans,” it said.
At his first campaign stop in Iowa, where the first Republican presidential primaries will take place, Mr Trump took aim at President Biden.
“Biden’s record is an unbroken streak of weakness, incompetence, corruption and failure,” he said.
“Other than he’s doing quite well.”
'Donald Trump is not about America'
Speaking in Pennsylvania on Friday, Mr Biden said the 2024 presidential election will not just choose a president but determine the course of democracy in the US.
“Whether democracy is still America's sacred cause is the most important question of our time,” he said.
“Donald Trump is about him, not America, not you.
“He's willing to sacrifice our democracy.”
Capitol riots
Today marks three years since riots in the US Capitol Building in Washington, as Trump supporters began violently protesting after he claimed the election had been “stolen” from him.
"He told the crowd to fight like hell. And all hell was unleashed," Mr Biden said.
"Then as usual he left the dirty work to others. He retreated to the White House.
"We nearly lost America - lost it all.”
Some five people died due to the chaos, and many were injured, including 174 police officers in the Capitol.
Four officers who responded to the attack also died by suicide within seven months of the riots.
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments on Mr Trump’s eligibility on February 8th, ahead of the Colorado primary on March 5th.
