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catbyte

(34,440 posts)
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 05:39 PM Apr 2020

We've never backed a Democrat for president. But Trump must be defeated.

By George T. Conway III, Reed Galen, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver and Rick Wilson


The authors are on the advisory board of the Lincoln Project.

This November, Americans will cast their most consequential votes since Abraham Lincoln’s reelection in 1864. We confront a constellation of crises: a public health emergency not seen in a century, an economic collapse set to rival the Great Depression, and a world where American leadership is absent and dangers rise in the vacuum.

Today, the United States is beset with a president who was unprepared for the burden of the presidency and who has made plain his deficits in leadership, management, intelligence and morality.

When we founded the Lincoln Project, we did so with a clear mission: to defeat President Trump in November. Publicly supporting a Democratic nominee for president is a first for all of us. We are in extraordinary times, and we have chosen to put country over party — and former vice president Joe Biden is the candidate who we believe will do the same.

Biden is now the presumptive Democratic nominee and he has our support. Biden has the experience, the attributes and the character to defeat Trump this fall. Unlike Trump, for whom the presidency is just one more opportunity to perfect his narcissism and self-aggrandizement, Biden sees public service as an opportunity to do right by the American people and a privilege to do so.

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We’ve seen the damage three years of corruption and cultish amateurism can do. This country cannot afford to be torn apart for sport and profit for another term, as Trump will surely do. If Biden takes office next January, he won’t need on-the-job training.

We are in a transcendent and transformative period of American history. The nation cannot afford another four years of chaos, duplicity and Trump’s reality distortion. This country is crying out for a president with a spine stiffened by tragedy, a worldview shaped by experience and a heart whose compass points to decency.

It is our hope that when the next president takes the oath of office in January, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will be the president for a truly united America. The stakes are too high to do anything less.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/15/weve-never-backed-democrat-president-trump-must-be-defeated/

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We've never backed a Democrat for president. But Trump must be defeated. (Original Post) catbyte Apr 2020 OP
Hard to believe the stark difference. Jamastiene Apr 2020 #1
Hard to imagine their relationship, elleng Apr 2020 #2
I don't blame you. Jamastiene Apr 2020 #4
Can you imagine the divorce in which he abandons his children to the sole daily care of--that? Hekate Apr 2020 #10
That is highly probable. Jamastiene Apr 2020 #11
The excerpt is great can't wait to read the rest. BootinUp Apr 2020 #3
My uncle, who has never taken sides in an election in his life... Initech Apr 2020 #5
Our first official endorsement by a conservative group. Hortensis Apr 2020 #6
Kick and applause. Guilded Lilly Apr 2020 #7
K&R 2naSalit Apr 2020 #8
Bravo! Hekate Apr 2020 #9

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
1. Hard to believe the stark difference.
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 05:42 PM
Apr 2020

One of the people who realizes Trump must go wrote this and his wife just mentioned "Covid-1" as if the 19 in Covid-19 meant there were 18 Covids before it, when the 19 means the year.

Hekate

(90,784 posts)
10. Can you imagine the divorce in which he abandons his children to the sole daily care of--that?
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 08:37 PM
Apr 2020

I really suspect that's the reason he has not left.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
11. That is highly probable.
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 10:49 PM
Apr 2020

No children should be left along with that crackpot. She honestly believes in "alternative facts." Who makes up a Covid-1 through Covid-18 out of thin air like that? She does. No. Kids would not do very well being raised by someone like her.

Initech

(100,100 posts)
5. My uncle, who has never taken sides in an election in his life...
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 05:56 PM
Apr 2020

Is all in for Biden this year! And for that I say "glad to have you on the team!".

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Our first official endorsement by a conservative group.
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 06:04 PM
Apr 2020
This country is crying out for a president with a spine stiffened by tragedy, a worldview shaped by experience and a heart whose compass points to decency.

It is our hope that when the next president takes the oath of office in January, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will be the president for a truly united America. The stakes are too high to do anything less.


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