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RandySF

(59,079 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 04:54 AM Mar 2020

Former Obama chief of staff endorses Biden

Former Obama White House chief of staff Denis McDonough endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden's White House Bid in an op-ed on Super Tuesday.

McDonough's opinion piece in the St. Paul Pioneer Press on Tuesday said he worked “closely” with Biden throughout former President Obama’s tenure, and that he would be an “excellent president.”

“In what he did — and importantly how he did it — he demonstrated not just why the president trusted him to take on tough assignments but why he will be an excellent president,” he wrote.

McDonough said the former vice president “routinely took the hardest assignments,” writing that Biden oversaw how billions of dollars in stimulus funding was spent, got the Senate to ratify the New START arms control treaty with Russia, led efforts to improve gun background checks and promoted cancer prevention, prompting the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/485692-former-obama-chief-of-staff-endorses-biden

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Former Obama chief of staff endorses Biden (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2020 OP
Love this endorsement from Denis McDonough! Cha Mar 2020 #1
Awesome DarthDem Mar 2020 #2
 

Cha

(297,490 posts)
1. Love this endorsement from Denis McDonough!
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 05:21 AM
Mar 2020
McDonough's opinion piece in the St. Paul Pioneer Press on Tuesday said he worked “closely” with Biden throughout former President Obama’s tenure, and that he would be an “excellent president.”

“In what he did — and importantly how he did it — he demonstrated not just why the president trusted him to take on tough assignments but why he will be an excellent president,” he wrote.

McDonough said the former vice president “routinely took the hardest assignments,” writing that Biden oversaw how billions of dollars in stimulus funding was spent, got the Senate to ratify the New START arms control treaty with Russia, led efforts to improve gun background checks and promoted cancer prevention, prompting the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016.

Thank you
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

DarthDem

(5,256 posts)
2. Awesome
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 05:29 AM
Mar 2020

Quite an eloquent and effective endorsement!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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