JUST TWEETED BY PRESIDENT BIDEN - "A letter to my fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill"

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

Joe Biden
@JoeBiden

This morning, I sent a letter to my fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill. In it, I shared my thoughts about this moment in our campaign.

It’s time to come together, move forward as a unified party, and defeat Donald Trump.

[Easterncedar]

1. Go Joe!

[yorkster]

2. Excellent. Just heard about this on Morning Joe.

Was hoping I'd see it here. Thx.

[highplainsdem]

3. Kick! And please keep this kicked. It's incredibly important. I wish I could pin it to the top of the board.

[odins folly]

4. I think it's time for many to step back

From the edge of the cliff that the MSM has pushed us to. When the MSM start discussing the other candidate with the same breathless rhetoric, maybe I will listen. Until then, I’m riding with Biden!

[Quiet Em]

5. Powerful letter!!!

Thank you for posting this.

This matter is closed. Let's go.

[jmbar2]

6. Excellent response

K&R

[proud patriot]

7. I'm all in Joe

[Music Man]

8. This is a good one!

Resolute.

At this point, any further calls for Biden to drop out (at least by Democratic politicians/leaders) is lazy piling on.

One can simultaneously recognize that the debate did not go well AND that it's time to move on, work hard, and beat Donald Trump. I'm on the side of Team Democracy.

[BootinUp]

9. Also just popped up on the Wash Post front page. nt

[MiHale]

10. KnR...a million times

Thank you for posting.

[niyad]

11. KNR and bookmarking.

[MOMFUDSKI]

12. Dark Brandon is pissed!!! The Irish is up!

Go Joe. Then Rev Al said the orange guy is Joe’s best asset. Gotta poke the bear. Said drag orange asshole out of the bedroom NOW! It is ON

[Goonch]

13. 👇👇👇👁️👁️

[katmondoo]

14. I sent a letter of support to Joe Biden Sunday, not an email but a handwritten note.

The note said We love him and will continue to support him. Asking him not to drop out. WE need him.

[yorkster]

27. Yes. We the People.Want Joe.

[cilla4progress]

32. I've been sending $$

in addition to my monthly donations!

[Fritz Walter]

52. I need to follow suit

It’s been an expensive summer for me so far, but this is really important.

I have a 2020 Biden-Harris yard sign. Might put it up again now (until/unless 2024 yard signs are available).

[CousinIT]

15. The last sentence says it all. They need to STOP tearing him down and unite behind our nominee.

We can't waste time fiddling around with fantasies of replacing Biden now.

I suggest two things:

1. TURN OFF THE DAMN MAINSTEAM NEWS MEDIA. There are lots of TV shows and movies to watch instead. Nobody needs to be listening to their damn yellow journalism right now. We're too busy trying to save our Democracy to listen to their bullshit.

2. GET TO WORK re-electing Joe, GOTV.

Do you know who your precinct captain is? If not, find out:

https://democrats.org/who-we-are/state-parties/state-party-websites/

Getting involved locally in your neighborhood is a great way to meet fellow Democrats as you work to get out the vote. Distribute flyers and canvass, make phone calls, and help register voters.

Even if you can't donate, you can do much:

Write postcards to voters in swing states: https://turnoutpac.org.

Write letters to voters: https://linktr.ee/votefwd.

Get involved in other ways: https://democrats.org/take-action/

The Reach app is a great way to use social media to amplify the Democratic message to voters who are at least open-minded, undecided, or who you think may not vote or might vote 3rd party:

https://democrats.org/reach/

Connect with your state and local Democratic Party. They can ALWAYS use volunteers even if you live in a Red state or city.

[Progressive dog]

55. I was an MSNBC junky for years

This broke me of it.

[samnsara]

16. this is why i LOVE JOE!!

..I havent watched MSM in about a month and i feel so much better..my stomach still hurts and it will until trumps dead

[The Magistrate]

17. Quite A Broadside

"That's the stuff to give the Hun!"

[58Sunliner]

18. Thank you President Biden!!!

[gab13by13]

19. Ridin' With Biden,

[Desert grandma]

20. Game on!

I am proud of our President. We are fired up and ready to go! Onward to victory!!

[PatSeg]

21. Happy Monday America!

Thank you Mr. President!

[DownriverDem]

22. Totally agree with Biden

Circle the wagons, Support Biden & focus on beating trump.

[Deek1935]

23. Excellent and SPOT ON! Once again, THE DECISION IS MADE. Joe is IN. Period. No more speculating about him leaving!

[gademocrat7]

24. K&R!

President Biden has my support.

[ucrdem]

25. Just the ticket Joe!

Excellent reminder that unlike Malevolent J. Baboon, you’re an attorney and longtime senator who can still write documents more than 28 letters long.

[oasis]

26. Let's get it done with Joe at the helm.

[PunkinPi]

28. K&R

[ancianita]

29. Popped up on Facebook this AM; trolls slammed hard BUT 513 shares, 3.5 thousand seen, 1.3 thousand comments.

Digital teams are ON it.

[ffr]

30. Cut the malarkey. Support your coach! And let's defeat American fascism!!

The GOP fascists and their coach, convicted felon and indicted traitor TSF orange turd, still have the support of the zombie fascism lovers in the republican party.

Together we'll defeat them in November and save the American experiment for several more years. And by then, perhaps the Big Mac and Fries cholesterol built up in their arteries will silence their movement, once and for all.

[peggysue2]

31. Bravo!

Now, let's get back to work and do this thing!

[LaMouffette]

33. Thank you for posting Joe's letter! It reminded me of why I fell in love with Joe Biden to begin with!

[SupportSanity]

34. Democratic Senators huddle has been called off

This was Sen. Mark Warner's bid to remove Biden as the presidential candidate:
https://democraticunderground.com/10143268221

[Takket]

35. This needs to be the end of calls for him to step aside

If anyone still doubts his decision they can only hurt the party by taking about it. Shut up and keep it to yourself.

[Wild blueberry]

36. That is one great letter

I am, as I have always been, all in for Biden/Harris.
Thank you.

[Blue Owl]

37. That's the Joe we know and love

[StarryNite]

38. Biden/Harris for the win!

[CaptainTruth]

39. Excellent! I'm with Joe!

I'm fighting for America & the last thing I need is naysayers & second-guessers in the foxhole with me.

[multigraincracker]

40. And I've never seen a picture

of his wife. Naked on the internet.

[FailureToCommunicate]

41. Forget those nattering nabobs of negativism. I'm riding' with Biden!

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[onecaliberal]

42. K&R!!

[planetc]

43. If this essay had been handed in to me by a Freshman in my composition class all those years ago, ...

... I would say: "What the heck are you doing here? You don't need this class. You're already more convincing than any advice I could give you would make you. I'll have a talk with the dean and convince him you can go on to any other class in the university and ace any written exams. Now go forth and start changing the world." (Actually I didn't have that much sense when I was teaching, but all the students survived anyhow.)(I think.) and Kick!

[GainesT1958]

44. I'd say the hand-wringing ninnies...

Just got their answer...
Sails up, guys! It's time to head out and sink the S.S. Trump...

[Elessar Zappa]

45. Now that President Biden has made it very clear he intends to stay in the race,

I believe that DU should start enforcing the rule that we all get behind the nominee. No more talk about other candidates.

[dlk]

46. Bravo Mr. President!

You have put all of the whiney, ageist naysayers in their place and told them STFU. We have an election to win and a democracy to save. Let’s go!

[usonian]

47. Text of the message.

JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR.

July 8, 2024
Fellow Democrats,

Now that you have returned from the July 4th recess, I want you to know that despite all the
speculation in the press and elsewhere, I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running
this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump.

I have had extensive conversations with the leadership of the party, elected officials, rank and
file members, and most importantly, Democratic voters over these past 10 days or so. I have
heard the concerns that people have — their good faith fears and worries about what is at stake
in this election. I am not blind to them. Believe me, I know better than anyone the responsibility
and the burden the nominee of our party carries. I carried it in 2020 when the fate of our nation
was at stake. I also know these concerns come from a place of real respect for my lifetime of
public service and my record as President, and I have been moved by the expressions of affection
for me from so many who have known me well and supported me over the course of my public
life. I've been grateful for the rock-solid, steadfast support from so many elected Democrats in
Congress and all across the country and taken great strength from the resolve and determination
I ’ve seen from so many voters and grassroots supporters even in the hardest of weeks.

I can respond to all this by saying clearly and unequivocally: I wouldn’t be running again if I did
not absolutely believe I was the best person to beat Donald Trump in 2024.

We had a Democratic nomination process and the voters have spoken clearly and decisively. I
received over 14 million votes, 87% of the votes cast across the entire nominating process. I have
nearly 3,900 delegates, making me the presumptive nominee of our party by a wide margin.

This was a process open to anyone who wanted to run. Only three people chose to challenge me.
One fared so badly that he left the primaries to run as an independent. Another attacked me for
being too old and was soundly defeated. The voters of the Democratic Party have voted. They
have chosen me to be the nominee of the party.

Do we now just say this process didn’t matter? That the voters don’t have a say?

I decline to do that. I feel a deep obligation to the faith and the trust the voters of the Democratic
Party have placed in me to run this year. It was their decision to make, Not the press, not the
pundits, not the big donors, not any selected group of individuals, no matter how well-intentioned. The voters — and the voters alone — decide the nominee of the Democratic Party.

How can we stand for democracy in our nation if we ignore it in our own party? I cannot do that.
I will not do that.

I have no doubt that I - and we ~ can and will beat Donald Trump. We have an historic record
of success to run on, From creating over 15 million jobs (including 200,000 just last month),
reaching historic lows on unemployment, to revitalizing American manufacturing with 800,000
jobs, to protecting and expanding affordable health care, to rebuilding America’s roads, bridges,
highways, ports and airports, and water systems, to beating Big Pharma and lowering the cost of
prescription drugs, including $35 a month insulin for seniors, to providing student debt relief
for neatly 5 million Americans to an historic investment in combatting climate change.

More importantly, we have an economic vision to run on that soundly beats Trump and the
MAGA Republicans. They are siding with the wealthy and the big corporations and we are siding
with the working people of America. It wasn’t an isolated moment for Trump to stand at Mar-A-
Lago and tell the oil industry they should give him $1 billion and he will do whatever they want.

That's whose side Trump and the MAGA Republicans are on, Trump and the MAGA
Republicans want another $5 trillion in tax cuts for rich people so they can cut Social Security
and Medicare. We will never let that happen, It’s trickle-down economics on steroids. We know
the way to build the economy is from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down. We
are finally going to make the rich and big corporations pay their fair share of taxes in this
country. The MAGA party is also still determined to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which could
throw 45 million Americans off their coverage. We will never let that happen either. Trump got
rich denying rental housing to Black people. We have a plan to build 2 million new housing units
in America. They want to let Big Pharma charge as much as they want again. What do you think
America’s seniors will think when they know Trump and the MAGA Republicans want to take
away their $35 insulin — as well as the $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket prescription costs we
Democrats just got them? Or what do you think American families are going to think when they
find out Trump and the MAGA Republicans want to hit them with a new $2,500 national sales
tax on all the imported products they buy?


We are the ones lowering costs for families — from health care to prescription drugs to student
debt to housing. We are the ones protecting Social Security and Medicare. Everything they're
proposing raises costs for most Americans — except their tax cuts which will go to the rich.

We are protecting the freedoms of Americans. Trump and the MAGA Republicans are taking
them away. They have already for the first time in history taken away a fundamental freedom
from the American people by overturning Roe v. Wade. They have decided politicians should
make the most personal of decisions that should be made by women and their doctors and those
closest to them. They have already said they won’t stop there — and are going after everything
from contraception to IVF to the right to marry who you love. And they have made it clear they
will ban abortion nationwide. We will let none of that happen. I have made it clear that if
Kamala and I are reelected, and the nation elects a Democratic House and Senate, we will make
Roe v. Wade the law of the land again. We are the ones who will bring real Supreme Court
reform; Donald Trump and his majority want more of the same from the Court, and the chance
to add to the right-wing majority they built by subverting the norms and principles of the
nomination and confirmation process.


And we are standing up for American democracy. After January 6th, Trump has proven that he
is unfit to ever hold the office of President. We can never allow him anywhere near that office
again. And we never will.

My fellow Democrats — we have the record, the vision, and the fundamental commitment to
America’s freedoms and our Democracy to win.

The question of how to move forward has been well-aired for over a week now. And it’s time for
it to end. We have one job. And that is to beat Donald Trump. We have 42 days to the
Democratic Convention and 119 days to the general election. Any weakening of resolve or lack of
clarity about the task ahead only helps Trump and hurts us. It is time to come together, move
forward as a unified party, and defeat Donald Trump.

Sincerely,

Joseph R. Biden Jr.
President of the United States of America


comment: I hate twitter .I OCR'ed the pix. Can we just use text like it was 1989? Thank you.

[Abstractartist]

48. Oh yeah

That’s what I’m talking about. The fire he’s showing. Kind of hard to show that when you have major jet lag and head cold from traveling. He did poor at the debate. Ok tough shit, Trump lied through it and hmmm let me think, yeah maybe gained a few poll points. If Trump had that horrendous jet lag, he would have been a no show. Joe Biden honored his commitment. I’m with him and donating 100 to the campaign. BRING IT HOME JOE….WE GOT YOUR BACK…. Just one statement to describe Trumps campaign…. Spread it, say it, spell it, spit it out……..it’s this….PROJECT 2025. NEVER forget what this will do.

[Justice matters.]

50. Welcome to DU and yessss!

Never forget!

Let's go Biden/Harris!

The sacrifices of The Greatest Generation must NOT have been made in vain!

[meow2u3]

49. K&R for utter importance

[Hekate]

51. Good man. Bookmarking.

[betsuni]

53. K&R

[llmart]

54. Oh hell yeah!!!

THIS is what we needed. Now, let's force the mainstream (aka lamestream) media to get it out there. I am going to contact the NY Times and tell them I want to see it on their front page ASAP! Someone upthread said Washington Post did that, probably because they got so much pushback from people like us.

It goes without saying, "I'm Ridin' with Biden". When I get angry I just dig in more. Sending him and Kamala another donation.

[Mr. Mustard 2023]

56. "Trump got rich denying...

...rental housing to black people."

Oh hell yeah!

More.

Go after poor Fred Junior, Donald's older brother who died of alcoholism at age 42.

Say it's because Donald's father, Fred Trump Senior hated Donald and Fred.

Say "my son Hunter beat addiction, while poor Fred Junior couldn't, and his father berated him and offered no help until poor Fred Junior died by his dad's abuse".

"That's why Fred Senior sent Donald away to military school. He couldn't stand Donald so he sent him away."

Go after the root cause of T*ump's malignant narcissism, where most cases are caused by trauma, usually childhood trauma such as abandonment, abuse and neglect. Often from a parent.

Oh, one more thing: You go President Biden. More of this. Let the dogs out sir. It's time.

[Linda ladeewolf]

57. No stutter

Funny how there’s no stutter when he writes. Maybe we should call attention to that? Rather eloquent n fact. I always thought the written word sounds better than how most of us speak. I guess that’s why I like to read transcripts while watching the taped speech.

[musclecar6]

58. Excellent Letter

You go Joe and Kamala. Everything Joe said in that letter is 100% accurate on the money. We need to keep pounding away from this point forward all that he’s accomplished and everything else that those MAGA NAZI’s on the other side are up to lead by the biggest Conman, liar, and a cheat would be Adolph Hitler, we’ve ever seen.

[Nimble_Idea]

59. Plain as all can be -- they had primary with the "too old" argument already - it failed

like a trump steak house.

[flying_wahini]

60. I'm sending emails to Dems talking about finding another candidate. Rep Adam Smith was the first one.

More to follow.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

61. "Any weakening of resolve or lack of clarity about the task ahead only helps Trump and hurts us."

Give 'em hell, Joe!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

62. The people who most need to read this letter

won't. We have to get the message out in smaller doses.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

63. K&R

[oasis]

64. And that's the name of that tune. nt