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Biden said the election is important because it comes at a time of four crises dealing with the worst pandemic in 100 years, the worst economic decline since the Great Depression, protests for racial justice and the accelerating threat of climate change. Biden was teased throughout his childhood about his stutter. He was called Joe Impedimenta, Dash and Stutterhead by classmates.
“I want to ask small business owners and their employees one question, and it’s a question for everyone: Would you rehire, or work for, someone who ran your business into the ground?” said the former New York City mayor, who ended his presidential campaign earlier this year after failing to gain traction despite spending a record amount of his personal fortune to win.
“He stiffed our party and all the monthly workers he promised to keep on through November,” she tweeted. “Why is Bloomberg speaking?”For a brief moment, the Democratic candidates who battled for the nomination were back on a stage – albeit a virtual one. “At this particular moment in American history, my God, that is something that this country absolutely needs,” Sanders said.Former rival Pete Buttigieg, the first openly-gay candidate to win a presidential nominating contest, credited his former rival with stepping “out ahead of even this party when he said that marriage equality should be the law of the land.”
“If so much can change between 2010 and 2020, imagine what 2030 could look like,” he said, as he talked about a coalition of progressives, moderates, independents and the future “former Republicans” he often referred to on the campaign trail.Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran, stood in front of the U.S. capitol as she talked about the sacrifice required in serving in the military.
Duckworth, a first-term senator who now holds the seat once held by former President Barack Obama, has been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump in recent years The Purple Heart recipient spent 23 years in the Reserve Forces and retired in 2014 as a lieutenant colonel before she entered politics. Duckworth lost both of her legs after her Black Hawk helicopter was shot down during her time with the Illinois Army National Guard in Iraq in 2004. After she was appointed as assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs under the Obama administration, Duckworth defeated Illinois Republican congressman Joe Walsh in 2012 before she was elected to the Senate in 2016.
"They're cool, they're cerebral, they're straight, they keep their passion in check," Biden told New York Magazine."They're the modern politician."Fox News host Sean Hannity brought on a special -- if regular -- guest Thursday to analyze the final night of the Democratic convention: Donald Trump.
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris know the dignity of all working Americans, they feel the urgency and the demand of our dream. But working people are under attack. The wealth gap rose, our middle-class shrinks and poverty persists.” The New Jersey senator more recently clashed with Trump after the president suggested Booker would oversee a suburban “invasion” under the Biden administration. As a presidential candidate las year, Booker made affordable and anti-discrimination housing one of his key policies. Booker responded by tweeting “your racism is showing.”“Let's now work together and stand together and America, together, we will rise,” he said.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said ballots handled by the U.S. Post Service are secure whether it’s through a universal system or via absentee ballot. Benson, Padilla and other state election officials across the nation are encouraging voters to cast their ballots by mail because of concerns that in-person voting would increase the spread of coronavirus.
"That's the issue of this election - a choice that goes straight to the nature of the soul of America. Humankind has long viewed the soul as the vital center, the core, the essence of existence. The soul is what makes us, us." Rev. Raphael Warnock said in the video that during a time when Black Americans are rising up against police brutality and racism, people must “honor him by continuing to fight the good fights that he fought, by staying in good trouble.”
“We must pass on the gift John Lewis left on to us. We must register and we must vote,” Bottoms said. Bottoms had been an early backer of Biden, a move that generated some criticism for passing over the two African American senators seeking the nomination, California’s Kamala Harris and New Jersey’s Cory Booker.
“Our future is now, and it is daunting,” said Andrew Yang, the New York entrepreneur, kicking off the fourth night of the convention.” But I ask you tonight to join me to help Joe and Kamala fight for the promise of America, turn the page for our country, and lead us forward to a future we will actually be proud to leave to our children.”
Newsom spoke at the virtual Democratic National Convention on Thursday from a forest near California’s Central Coast after visiting a nearby Red Cross evacuation center. The pandemic is another subject on the agenda. Dr. Vivek Murthy, a former surgeon general, is scheduled to speak. Biden's former rivals for the nomination will speak about how they united behind him. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg will be the last politician to speak before Biden.
Biden has dropped his longstanding support for the Hyde Amendment, which blocks federal funding for abortion in most cases. published by Fox News Thursday. “Faith is a core part of who we are – and since our founding, it’s been a core part of America, too.”that will play Thursday night before Biden speaks.Delaware officials will watch Biden's speech from their cars
Attendees will watch on a large screen in the parking lots and will remain in their cars during Biden's speech. Hitt and U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany criticized Democrats and Biden for bypassing Wisconsin for much of the convention. Democrats were forced to make dramatic changes and create a virtual convention because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“I’m so proud of her,” Emhoff said in his first campaign remarks supporting the ticket."Being out here on the presidential campaign trail talking about Joe and Kamala is not something I've ever really expected to be doing.”
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