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Iamaartist's JournalCindy Axne, Congresswoman From Iowa Swing District, Endorses Joe Biden 😎🎨
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Representative Cindy Axne of Iowa is endorsing former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., giving him another prominent backer with just over a week until the state’s caucuses.
Ms. Axne, a freshman Democrat who unseated a Republican incumbent, hails from the kind of swing district that was key to the party’s takeover of the House in the 2018 midterm elections, and will be crucial to its continued control of the chamber.
“He is who I believe is the one sure bet to beat Donald Trump,” Ms. Axne said in an interview, describing him as “a person who can bridge the divisiveness in this country.”
Mr. Biden has now been endorsed by two of Iowa’s three Democrats in Congress. Representative Abby Finkenauer, another freshman who also flipped a Republican-held seat in 2018, endorsed him in early January. The state’s other House Democrat, Representative Dave Loebsack, has endorsed former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind
On the campaign trail, Mr. Biden stresses the importance of choosing a Democratic presidential nominee who will help candidates down the ballot, and he frequently cites his efforts campaigning for Democratic candidates in the 2018 midterm elections, when the party won control of the House.
“Who do they most want to run with?” Mr. Biden said in Claremont, N.H., on Friday, noting the importance of keeping control of the House. “Who will most help them from the top of the ticket? That’s for you to decide. Obviously, I think I’m the guy.”
Ms. Axne’s district includes Iowa’s most populous city, Des Moines, and covers the southwestern corner of the state. President Barack Obama won the district in 2012, but Mr. Trump carried it in 2016. Two years later, in the midterm elections, Ms. Axne unseated Representative David Young, a two-term Republican
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/us/politics/joe-biden-cindy-axne-iowa.html
Democratic Attacks on Sanders Are Long Overdue.......🙄🎨
Bernie Sanders' campaign recently stabbed Elizabeth Warren in the back. She was the Vermont senator's comrade in arms. It also threw a pack of lies at Joe Biden, tarring him as corrupt with zero evidence. As former Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin told Politico, Sanders "will play dirty." The Democrat added, "I'm concerned that we're seeing a replay of the kind of dynamics that didn't allow Hillary to win."
The difference between now and 2016, though, is that Sanders' targets are finally hitting back. This outbreak of hostilities among Democrats is not hurting the party. On the contrary. An airing of these grievances is long overdue..
And whether one shares Sanders' political views is irrelevant to this conversation. (I like some of them.)
The danger Sanders poses for the party is that, to him, electing Democrats comes second to building the "movement." This explains why his sidekick, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is pushing primary challenges to moderate Democrats who won difficult races in swing districts.
The catchphrase on Sanders' website, Our Revolution, is "Campaigns end. Revolutions Endure." Indeed, he and his fellow socialists have latched on to the Democratic Party because having a D after their names is the only way they can win an election.
His been attacking Joe to much...so fair is fair....
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/23/democratic_attacks_on_sanders_are_long_overdue_142213.html
Former Iowa Gov. Chet Culver endorses Joe Biden for president.....Go Joe 😎 ,,,Wow
Former Iowa Gov. Chet Culver is endorsing Joe Biden for president, saying he believes Biden can win the general election in November.
"I think that’s arguably the toughest job Iowans have is to figure out which candidate is best positioned to defeat Donald Trump," Culver told the Des Moines Register in an interview Thursday. "And I believe Joe Biden is that candidate."
Biden, a former vice president, is one of the leading candidates hoping to pull off a win in the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses, which kick off the Democratic presidential nominating process.
Culver, a Democrat, was Iowa's governor from 2007 to 2011 and previously served as Iowa's secretary of state from 1999 to 2007.
He now runs the Chet Culver Group, a consulting firm that focuses on renewable energy and infrastructure. He lives in West Des Moines.
Culver recalled "working shoulder to shoulder" with Biden when Biden was vice president to secure federal aid for flood recovery in Cedar Rapids after devastating flooding in 2008
Biden has spoken recently on the campaign trail about campaigning in Iowa for Culver's father, former U.S. Sen. John Culver, in the 1970s. The elder Culver served in the U.S. Senate with Biden from 1975 to 1981. He died in 2018.
Culver said he's known Biden most of his life thanks to his father's close friendship with his former senate colleague.
"Throughout my father’s life he continued to stay in touch with his friend Joe Biden, and so I had several opportunities over the years to get to know him and his sons and his wife very well. And I really have always valued his friendship, and I know my father did as well," Culver said
Keep them coming Joe....😎
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2020/01/24/former-governor-chet-culver-endorses-joe-biden-president-2020-iowa-caucuses/4555996002/
Obama fundraising chief backs Biden Rufus Gifford, one of the Democratic Party's ......😎🎨
Rufus Gifford, one of the Democratic Party’s best-connected fundraisers, is throwing his support behind Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race, just before Biden and his rivals dive into an expensive stretch of early primaries and caucuses.
There are few Democratic donors or operatives with fundraising networks as vast as Gifford’s, and his connections could help Biden compete with fellow frontrunners who have tapped online small-dollar donors to outraise the former vice president so far. Gifford served as finance director for former President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, leading the record-setting push to raise $1 billion to win a second term for Obama in 2012
“It’s time for me to come off the fence and support him officially. I’ve been in a position where I’ve had split loyalty in this race for a long time,” Gifford told POLITICO in an interview. “We’ve been having this conversation for a year now as a country, and we’re back in the same place we were back a year ago, which is Joe Biden is a fantastic vice president and he’d be an amazing president. So he’s my guy
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/24/obama-fundraising-chief-backs-biden-103221
Go Joe...😎🎨
Bill Shaheen leads group of longtime NH Democratic leaders backing Biden.. .Major Endorsement,😎🎨
MAJOR ENDORSEMENTS
FOR BIDEN. Joe Biden’s campaign Thursday will roll out a slate of established New Hampshire Democratic leaders who have joined his camp and are making their endorsements public here for the first time. Several of them previously endorsed former candidates.
Bill Shaheen is on board with the former vice president. The longtime Democratic National Committeeman and husband of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen gave his highly sought-after endorsement to Biden because, he said, “We need a president and a Senate who can bring dignity back to our country and immediately command respect on the world stage. Joe Biden can do both.”
Joining Shaheen with Biden are former state Senate President Sylvia Larsen, former state Democratic Party Chair Joe Keefe, longtime campaign strategist and former Cory Booker senior adviser Jim Demers and former U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes, who had been the state campaign director for former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson.
Also with Biden are Hodes’ wife, Peggo Horstmann Hodes, former state Sen. Peggy Gilmour, former Carroll County Democratic Chair Chris Meier and Manchester attorney and activist Maureen Manning.
The new Biden supporters also include three Manchester elected officials – Alderman-at-Large Dan O’Neil and Ward 10 Alderman Bill Barry, both of whom had backed U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan’s brief run for president, and Ward 2 School Board member Kathleen Kelley.
For many months, Bill Shaheen acted as an unofficial greeter and ambassador of the first-in-the-nation primary, walking with many candidates through downtown Dover and introducing them to local voters and activists.
He will now bring his formidable influence both locally and nationally to bear for Biden.
“Americans are worried, and the world is watching,” said Shaheen, who has been active in primary campaigns since Jimmy Carter came to New Hampshire as a little-known Georgia governor in the 1976 cycle.
“It is time for us to rise up and fight. Our ancestors are calling us to join this battle, so I will do it gladly. Winning the White House is only half of the battle. In order to change our course, we must win the Senate.”
Jeanne Shaheen is seeking a third term in the Senate, and Democrats view holding her seat as critical to flipping the Senate from Republican to Democratic control. She made it clear almost a year ago, when she announced her reelection bid, that she would not make an endorsement in the presidential primary and will “focus on my own race.”
“One of the major motivating reasons I went with Cory Booker so early was I always felt his message and career were built on unity and bringing people together,” Demers, who co-chaired President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns in New Hampshire, said in an interview.
“That became a central question I looked at after he dropped out and I believe Joe Biden checks that box as well. He’s demonstrated he can work with a lot of different factions and different people. Unifying the country is a goal of his as well.”
Larsen is a former 20-year state senator who served 12 years as leader of the Senate Democrats, four of them as Senate president. She has been a friend of Biden for many years and was a leader in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns.
Larsen hosted house parties for several of the current presidential candidates.
"After careful consideration of our many talented candidates, I believe Joe Biden is the best candidate to lead us forward to a moral, compassionate America which restores our faith in the American dream of equal opportunity, access to healthcare, innovation in industry, and international stability," she said.
Keefe, who chaired the NHDP in the late 1990s and early 2000s and twice ran for the U.S. House, endorsed former candidate Kamala Harris last summer. A longtime defender of New Hampshire’s status as the nation’s first primary, he led a party task force 15 years ago that tried to develop strategies to push back on efforts at the national party level to dilute the role of the primary.
Go Joe.....😎🎨
https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-primary-source-bill-shaheen-leads-group-of-longtime-nh-democratic-leaders-backing-biden/30634779#
Would Biden pick a female running mate? 'At least 9 women I can think of,' he says.👧😎
Would Biden pick a female running mate? ‘At least 9 women I can think of,’ he has suggested that there a few more women he would mull for the job.
Former Vice President Joe Biden last year floated a handful of women he would consider inviting onto his ticket if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination — a
Campaigning in Osage, Iowa, Biden responded to a question Wednesday about whether he’d consider former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams for the No. 2 post by commenting that he would, adding that there are at least nine women that he would think about, according to a reporter for
Biden also said he would consider women for roles across his administration if he won the presidency
Who has Biden mentioned so far in terms of women he would invite onto a Democratic ticket to face off against President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in November?
Asked who’d pick as a running mate during an Iowa town hall in November, Biden at first demurred, the Des Moines Register reported.
“I could start naming people but the press will think that’s who I picked,” Biden said, according to the newspaper — but then Biden went on to list “the former assistant attorney general who got fired,” an apparent reference to Sally Yates, as well as “the woman who should have been the governor of Georgia,” alluding to Stacey Abrams, and “the two senators from the state of New Hampshire.”
Those members of Congress are Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, both Democrats and both women.
I trust your judgement in who you pick..
Go Joe...😎
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-pick-female-running-mate-014259451.html
Steinberg backs Biden for 2020 presidential race....Go Joe 😎🎨🏝 California Dreaming,,,,Song,,,,
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg has decided to throw his support behind former Vice President Joe Biden ahead of California’s March 3, 2020 primary election.
“I thought long and hard about this and talked with several of the candidates,” Steinberg said. “For me, Vice President Biden is the best candidate. This country desperately needs both strong leadership and a voice of healing. This country is so badly divided in large part because of the current president.”
Steinberg declined to name the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates he spoke with but said a “number of them” reached out to him. One strong consideration for Steinberg was former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has been courting California lawmakers and business leaders behind the scenes and has secured the public support of big-city mayors from Stockton, San Jose and Riverside.
“I’m sad I can’t support him,” Steinberg said of Bloomberg.
The Sacramento mayor, who had previously backed hometown Sen. Kamala Harris, defended his prior support for her, insisting Harris was “a pretty easy call,” given their longtime friendship and professional relationship. After she dropped out last month, Steinberg gave much thought about whom he should support next.
The biggest priority for Steinberg was finding someone he thinks can beat President Donald Trump in the general election and work with Congress to get laws passed after being sworn in. He said he spoke with Biden a couple weeks ago over the phone and came away from the conversation optimistic about the former vice president’s electoral prospects.
“He has a great chance to beat Trump in the states Democrats lost in 2016,” Steinberg said. “He’s ahead in many of the polls and has a track record with working people, with African American voters, with people of color . ... You can’t get anything done unless you deal with the other party and differing views within your own party. He’s had a career of working with people of all different points of view.”
Also important for Steinberg were Biden’s plans to tackle issues of housing affordability and homelessness, which California Democrats consider their top policy priorities heading into the 2020 primary.
Steinberg has focused much of his energy this past year urging the state to take more action on homelessness. He co-led a task force Gov. Gavin Newsom created last year to look into possible solutions. The group released a report this month calling for a statewide measure to
be placed on the November ballot to force state and local governments to meet ambitious targets to house more homeless people.
In July, Steinberg pushed for a statewide “right to shelter” law modeled after a program in New York City. Biden called housing affordability and homelessness “gigantic issues” during an appearance on The Bee’s “California Nation” podcast earlier this month. He also backed the idea of a “right” to shelter.
Steinberg said he invited Biden to come to Sacramento as California’s primary nears and hopes he’ll visit soon.
“I certainly invited him, and I am sure that over the course of a long campaign, he’ll find his way to Sacramento,” Steinberg said.
When Biden has visited the Golden State, he’s largely held private fundraisers in the Bay Area and Los Angeles in lieu of public events. He and Elizabeth Warren have yet to visit the middle of the state. With the exception of Pete Buttgieg, Biden has made the most appearances in California and held the most fundraisers in the state, according to a Sacramento Bee analysis of candidate visits.
Steinberg’s announcement on Tuesday makes him the third big-city mayor in California to endorse Biden. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia announced their support for Biden earlier this month during the vice president’s latest trip to the state. Other prominent Californians, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Sacramento-area congressmen Ami Bera and John Garamendi, are also supporting him.
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-sacramento-bee/20200122/281543702886810
Joe Biden will protect Roe v. Wade..........😎👩🏻🦱
Last year, Granite State women watched with great anxiety as, all over the country, one Republican-led state after another implemented new draconian laws limiting women’s access to the reproductive care they need. As the Concord Monitor reported in May, “It seemed to unfold at once: in Georgia, with a fetal heartbeat bill; in Missouri, with an eight-week restriction; and in Alabama, with a near total ban.”
For now, courts have blocked these efforts, on the basis that they’re unconstitutional and go against the precedent set in Roe v. Wade.
But we’re not in the clear. Women across New Hampshire know that it’s not a matter of if, but when, one of these unpopular, dangerous laws makes its way up to Donald Trump’s Supreme Court and the court allows it to remain intact, causing a sea change in reproductive rights for all Americans.
In our own New Hampshire Legislature, there are currently four bills pending to restrict abortion rights. These include HB 1475, a “heartbeat bill” designed to restrict a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions. Though the bill stands no chance of making its way through our Democratic-majority State House and Senate, it should give us pause that these extreme proposals have landed on our doorstep here in New Hampshire.
We urgently need leadership at the top who will codify into law Roe v. Wade and ensure that a woman’s right to choose remains intact. And we need a leader with a proven track record of fighting for women and advocating for their right to make their own health care decisions, especially when it involves a woman’s right to choose if and when she will have children. And we need a leader who will protect the rights of the LGBTQ community and other vulnerable populations when it comes to access to health care.
We know that leader is Joe Biden.
For starters, Biden has promised that as president he will immediately work to codify Roe v. Wade into law, which, when accomplished, will greatly help put American women’s minds at ease. And he will only appoint judges who promise to respect judicial precedents. Ensuring a judge respects judicial precedent isn’t something that should be up for debate, but with Trump stacking the courts with handpicked judges like Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, it’s unfortunately become a reality of the task at hand for our next president.
As president, Biden will also restore federal funding to Planned Parenthood, which, beyond providing quality reproductive care to women, is a critical resource for LGBTQ people and other vulnerable populations who often live in communities that don’t have easy access to adequate sexual health care. Planned Parenthood is also a key provider of preventative health care for men, women, and people of all gender identities, including STI and HIV testing. When facilities like Planned Parenthood don’t get the resources they need, we often see spikes in dangerous, unregulated abortions and more widespread infection rates.
Biden will also repeal the Hyde Amendment, which he acknowledged cannot exist when entire populations are no longer able to access health care or exercise their constitutional rights due to their income or zip code.
It’s not tough to see how former Vice President Biden will make women’s issues a priority in his administration: he’s been doing it for decades. He wrote and passed the Violence Against Women Act, landmark legislation that caused a cultural shift in the country and led to a dramatic reduction in cases of domestic violence. He spearheaded the “It’s On Us” campaign to combat sexual assault on our college campuses.
And, of course, Biden knows that “women’s issues” don’t exist in a vacuum and that they are often tangled together with other key priorities. For example, as president, he has promised to close the “boyfriend loophole,” a nonsensical provision championed by the NRA and upheld by Senate Republicans that allows domestic abusers to keep their weapons so long as they’re not married to their victim and partner.
Similarly, having passed the Affordable Care Act and released a detailed plan to protect and expand on it with a public option, Biden will make health care, including reproductive and mental health, accessible and affordable to all Americans.
Joe Biden understands the danger of a country in which Republican-led efforts block women’s access to doctors: a country where there are far more risky, potentially life-threatening procedures, and class- and location-based disparities where wealthy women have access to the care they need and other women don’t.
On an entire slate of issues, including reproductive health care, we need Vice President Joe Biden’s expertise, experience, and moral clarity to achieve meaningful progress: We can’t afford to return to the unsafe days of the past -- or continue down the dangerous path of the present.
https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20200121/joe-biden-will-protect-roe-v-wade
He will protect all the rights. Of Americans..
We need JOE......😎🎨🦩
After apologizing for a surrogate's attack, Bernie Sanders hits Joe Biden on Social Security -- again
Bernie Sanders may have apologized to Joe Biden for an op-ed a surrogate wrote calling Biden "corrupt," but Sanders isn't easing up on his attacks on the former vice president for things Biden's said in the past about Social Security. Late Tuesday night, Sanders tweeted, "Let's be honest, Joe. One of us fought for decades to cut Social Security, and one of us didn't. But don't take it from me. Take it from you."
He attached a video clip of then-Senator Biden on the Senate floor from 1995 making this statement:
"When I argued that we should freeze federal spending, I meant Social Security as well. I meant Medicare and Medicaid. I meant veterans' benefits. I meant every single solitary thing in the government. And I not only tried it once — I tried it twice. I tried it a third time, and I tried it a fourth time."
Biden tweeted Tuesday night, "I've been fighting to protect — and expand — Social Security for my whole career. Any suggestion otherwise is just flat-out wrong." The tweet was accompanied by a video defending Biden, with op-ed headlines accusing Sanders of negative and dishonest attacks against Biden. "Bernie's campaign is not telling the truth," the video says, concluding, "Bernie's negative attacks won't change the truth: Joe Biden is still the strongest Democrat to beat Donald Trump."
Joe supporters are not going to change
It will not scare seniors. I like Joe's plan..not going to believe any smears on Joe...no matter what....
Go Joe 😎
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-apologizing-for-a-surrogates-attack-bernie-sanders-hits-joe-biden-on-social-security-again/
Biden picks up backing from 4 more black lawmakers 😎
A quartet of black lawmakers endorsed Joe Biden for president on Tuesday, giving the former vice president his 15th endorsement from the influential Congressional Black Caucus.
Reps. Frederica Wilson and Alcee Hastings of Florida, Donald Payne Jr. of New Jersey and Sanford Bishop of Georgia each backed Biden in a joint statement first obtained by POLITICO, casting him as the candidate who can beat President Donald Trump in November and unify the nation.
Joe Biden has the experience, vision and heart to reunify our country after four years of Donald Trump,” said Hastings, who added that Biden is ready to step in as commander in chief on Day One. “He has the proven ability to connect and empathize with folks of all backgrounds. At a time when our president is doing everything he possibly can to divide our nation, Joe will be a driving force for healing and unity.”
Wilson and Hastings had previously endorsed Sen. Kamala Harris of California, who suspended her presidential campaign last month, while Payne originally backed home-state Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who dropped out of the race last week.
The batch of additional support for Biden comes less than two weeks before the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses. Biden is among the group of four front-runners who are closely bunched at the top of public polling in Iowa and New Hampshire.
But Biden has a slightly larger advantage over his rivals in Nevada, a more diverse state that caucuses after New Hampshire, and a double-digit lead over his closest competitor in South Carolina, whose primary is at the end of February and where black voters make up roughly 60 percent of the electorate.
He’s always been there for our communities,” Payne said. “There is too much at stake in this election and we need someone like Joe Biden, who from Day One will make the needs of working families the centerpiece of his administration.”
Go Joe 😎🎨
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/01/21/biden-endorsement-four-black-lawmakers-101773
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