The Philadelphia Inquirer
PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden called on Americans to band together to protect the right to vote and reject Republican-led efforts to change election laws, casting the battle as a globally watched test of U.S. democracy during an appearance Tuesday in Philadelphia. “We’re facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War,” Biden said in a roughly 25-minute speech at the National Constitution Center. “That’s not hyperbole — since the Civil War.” He tied the fight directly to former President Donald Trump’s false attacks on the 2020 election, pointing to the numerous cour…