Biden campaign running 'like the fate of our democracy depends on it'
For months, President Biden has been running for president — quietly. But that's about to change in a significant way.
The Biden reelection campaign is kicking into a new higher gear, with two presidential campaign events on tap in the next week. The president's message will be unmistakable and stark, or as campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez put it, "We are running a campaign like the fate of our democracy depends on it. Because it does."
Biden and his team are building a campaign around an increasingly likely rematch with Former President Donald Trump. In Valley Forge, Pa., on Saturday, campaign officials say, Biden will lay out the stakes for this election — for American democracy and freedom — in a location with Revolutionary War symbolism. But Saturday isn't just any day: It's the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, when Trump supporters violently tried to help him cling to power after he lost to Biden in 2020.
"The threat that Donald Trump posed in 2020 to American democracy has grown even more dangerous than it was when President Biden ran last time," said deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks on a call with reporters.
The Biden campaign needs to stop him from bypassing Congress to send weapons to Israel.
That and approving more US oil production.
That's not going to affect the price at the pump. We haven't added more refining capacity in a long time and we shouldn't now. We need to be moving away from oil as much as possible and onto alternatives like wind and solar.
I should get back into trading oil futures. I foresee a ton of volatility for oil and gasoline/diesel in the coming years as more people upgrade to ev and run their houses on solar.
Really the US government just needs to stop treating Israel as an ally entirely, it's really fucking interesting that Israeli money benefits largely the same politicians that Russian money does, Russia being a state whose long term geopolitical goal is to force USA, Canada, and UK into isolationism.
Let's see a trend of election year stimmies, that was rad as hell actually
And they should, but honestly, that's how Democrats should be running every single campaign.
All of them should be talking about how we are sliding into fascism and dictatorship. But they probably won't because they're Democrats and they don't want to fight.
Can we have a national celebration of Jan. 6 as the day insurrection failed to destroy the nation? I don't need a day off of work, but I'd sure love to have some fireworks and flags. The usual patriotic bullshit except celebrating our democracy instead of whatever the fuck they usually celebrate... country music or muddy trucks or whatever.
Because it does.
Could run on legalizing weed and win in a landslide. Unfortunately the best they'll do is campaign on divisive issues like weapon bans
Federally legalizing weed would lose him the old people vote so it’s never going to happen.
Old people trend Republican anyway, and we always talk about getting the youth out to vote but give them so few reasons to do so.
Any old person against weed was never going to support a dem anyways.
Looks like this may already be in the works.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/federal-health-agency-recommends-easing-marijuana-restrictions/
Can Biden unilaterally legalize weed?
I’m in a state with legal weed and like Biden over Trump but if it’s already legal here why is that incentive for me to vote for him. Especially if I was a weed loving Trumper because I “got mine” which seems to be a big theme with those folks.
No, but that's okay, because if there's one thing these four years should have taught people it's that you need more than a 50/50 Senate and a narrow lead you later lose in the House.
You don't need to just elect Biden, you need a Congress not filled with fascists and that's...
Tricky rn. Especially when you start cutting some of the liberals.
There are plenty of reasons why legalizing on the federal level benefits us all, even in legal states. Besides the obvious that the remaining states now have access to legal weed and as such they now generate millions more in tax dollars, removing the controlled dangerous substance designation means the FDA can actually do real testing on cannabis. You won't break any federal crimes for simply driving from your state to a neighboring illegal state, and you can take it on a plane without fear.
I’m on board with federal legalization, I just question both whether Biden could realistically make that promise, and if it would be the single uniting platform point the original commenter claimed.
As a sober alcoholic I think it’s ridiculous how marijuana is treated compared to alcohol in the US, especially given my firsthand experience with both.
There's so many masses that are really feeling the pressure of the cost of living, millimetres away from rising up on their own. Loudly. If someone good tapped into that, and fuelled their hopes, it would be an avalanche.
Glad they're finally catching on. I hope their messaging really uses all of the available evidence to support the dire situation we're in.
They’ve got to explain to voters how dangerous Trump’s plan is to convert 50,000 public govt positions to politically-appointed ones. If that succeeds, there’s no 2028 general election.
Yeah. Except they're running to the right.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In Valley Forge, Pa., on Saturday, campaign officials say, Biden will lay out the stakes for this election — for American democracy and freedom — in a location with Revolutionary War symbolism.
"The threat that Donald Trump posed in 2020 to American democracy has grown even more dangerous than it was when President Biden ran last time," said deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks on a call with reporters.
There, Biden will talk about another motivating theme for his campaign — pushing back against extremism and political violence, drawing a line from the Mother Emanuel shooting to the unrest in Charlottesville, Va., and Jan. 6.
Pennsylvania is one of the key swing states likely to decide the outcome of the presidential race in 2024, while South Carolina will hold the first Democratic-party sanctioned primary next month.
Vice President Kamala Harris is set to visit another key swing state on Jan. 22, Wisconsin, to launch a multi-state tour focused on reproductive rights.
Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices who formed the conservative majority that overturned Roe, though on the campaign trail he has tried to avoid being pinned down on specific abortion policy.
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Really? The fate of our democracy depends on it, and they're like, let's give billions of taxpayers money to support genocide. You'd think that would be the lowest hanging fruit of things to avoid if they were even thinking of trying to win an election.
weed legalization is definitely something that will be pushed for. I wont be surprised if it happens federally as a hail mary to try and win back young voters