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January 23, 2020
Jor Biden-Why America Must Lead Again- Rescuing U.S. Foreign Policy After Trump
https://twitter.com/mikercarpenter/status/1220385899437051904By nearly every measure, the credibility and influence of the United States in the world have diminished since President Barack Obama and I left office on January 20, 2017. President Donald Trump has belittled, undermined, and in some cases abandoned U.S. allies and partners. He has turned on our own intelligence professionals, diplomats, and troops. He has emboldened our adversaries and squandered our leverage to contend with national security challenges from North Korea to Iran, from Syria to Afghanistan to Venezuela, with practically nothing to show for it. He has launched ill-advised trade wars, against the United States friends and foes alike, that are hurting the American middle class. He has abdicated American leadership in mobilizing collective action to meet new threats, especially those unique to this century. Most profoundly, he has turned away from the democratic values that give strength to our nation and unify us as a people.
Meanwhile, the global challenges facing the United Statesfrom climate change and mass migration to technological disruption and infectious diseaseshave grown more complex and more urgent, while the rapid advance of authoritarianism, nationalism, and illiberalism has undermined our ability to collectively meet them. Democraciesparalyzed by hyperpartisanship, hobbled by corruption, weighed down by extreme inequalityare having a harder time delivering for their people. Trust in democratic institutions is down. Fear of the Other is up. And the international system that the United States so carefully constructed is coming apart at the seams. Trump and demagogues around the world are leaning into these forces for their own personal and political gain. .
In order to regain the confidence of the world, we are going to have to prove that the United States says what it means and means what it says. This is especially important when it comes to the challenges that will define our time: climate change, the renewed threat of nuclear war, and disruptive technology.
The United States must lead the world to take on the existential threat we faceclimate change. If we dont get this right, nothing else will matter. I will make massive, urgent investments at home that put the United States on track to have a clean energy economy with net-zero emissions by 2050. Equally important, because the United States creates only 15 percent of global emissions, I will leverage our economic and moral authority to push the world to determined action. I will rejoin the Paris climate agreement on day one of a Biden administration and then convene a summit of the worlds major carbon emitters, rallying nations to raise their ambitions and push progress further and faster. We will lock in enforceable commitments that will reduce emissions in global shipping and aviation, and we will pursue strong measures to make sure other nations cant undercut the United States economically as we meet our own commitments. That includes insisting that Chinathe worlds largest emitter of carbonstop subsidizing coal exports and outsourcing pollution to other countries by financing billions of dollars worth of dirty fossil fuel energy projects through its Belt and Road Initiative....
Putin wants to tell himself, and anyone else he can dupe into believing him, that the liberal idea is obsolete. But he does so because he is afraid of its power. No army on earth can match the way the electric idea of liberty passes freely from person to person, jumps borders, transcends languages and cultures, and supercharges communities of ordinary citizens into activists and organizers and change agents.
We must once more harness that power and rally the free world to meet the challenges facing the world today. It falls to the United States to lead the way. No other nation has that capacity. No other nation is built on that idea. We have to champion liberty and democracy, reclaim our credibility, and look with unrelenting optimism and determination toward our future.
Meanwhile, the global challenges facing the United Statesfrom climate change and mass migration to technological disruption and infectious diseaseshave grown more complex and more urgent, while the rapid advance of authoritarianism, nationalism, and illiberalism has undermined our ability to collectively meet them. Democraciesparalyzed by hyperpartisanship, hobbled by corruption, weighed down by extreme inequalityare having a harder time delivering for their people. Trust in democratic institutions is down. Fear of the Other is up. And the international system that the United States so carefully constructed is coming apart at the seams. Trump and demagogues around the world are leaning into these forces for their own personal and political gain. .
In order to regain the confidence of the world, we are going to have to prove that the United States says what it means and means what it says. This is especially important when it comes to the challenges that will define our time: climate change, the renewed threat of nuclear war, and disruptive technology.
The United States must lead the world to take on the existential threat we faceclimate change. If we dont get this right, nothing else will matter. I will make massive, urgent investments at home that put the United States on track to have a clean energy economy with net-zero emissions by 2050. Equally important, because the United States creates only 15 percent of global emissions, I will leverage our economic and moral authority to push the world to determined action. I will rejoin the Paris climate agreement on day one of a Biden administration and then convene a summit of the worlds major carbon emitters, rallying nations to raise their ambitions and push progress further and faster. We will lock in enforceable commitments that will reduce emissions in global shipping and aviation, and we will pursue strong measures to make sure other nations cant undercut the United States economically as we meet our own commitments. That includes insisting that Chinathe worlds largest emitter of carbonstop subsidizing coal exports and outsourcing pollution to other countries by financing billions of dollars worth of dirty fossil fuel energy projects through its Belt and Road Initiative....
Putin wants to tell himself, and anyone else he can dupe into believing him, that the liberal idea is obsolete. But he does so because he is afraid of its power. No army on earth can match the way the electric idea of liberty passes freely from person to person, jumps borders, transcends languages and cultures, and supercharges communities of ordinary citizens into activists and organizers and change agents.
We must once more harness that power and rally the free world to meet the challenges facing the world today. It falls to the United States to lead the way. No other nation has that capacity. No other nation is built on that idea. We have to champion liberty and democracy, reclaim our credibility, and look with unrelenting optimism and determination toward our future.
January 23, 2020
We now have the Buttigieg "please clap" moment
Jeb Bush must be smiling right now
https://twitter.com/kallllisti/status/1219723626158514177
January 23, 2020
Bill Shaheen leads group of longtime NH Democratic leaders backing Biden
https://twitter.com/chrislongview/status/1220346196272828417MAJOR ENDORSEMENTS FOR BIDEN. Joe Bidens 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 ONeil and Ward 10 Alderman Bill Barry, both of whom had backed U.S. Rep. Tim Ryans brief run for president, and Ward 2 School Board member Kathleen Kelley.
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 ONeil and Ward 10 Alderman Bill Barry, both of whom had backed U.S. Rep. Tim Ryans brief run for president, and Ward 2 School Board member Kathleen Kelley.
January 23, 2020
Former Presidential Candidate and NBA Hall of Famer Bill Bradley endorses @JoeBiden for President
https://twitter.com/Biden_Front/status/1220350582424264705
January 23, 2020
Which candidate do you think has the best chance to beat Trump in the 2020 presidential election?
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1220175862768771072
January 23, 2020
Which candidate can best unite the country?
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1220187474972094464
January 23, 2020
Another round of Iowa endorsements for @JoeBiden .
https://twitter.com/brianneDMR/status/1220023347293184000
January 23, 2020
Joe Biden-Empathy matters. I think it's important
I have now met Joe in person twice. It is clear to me that he is a decent human being and cares about people
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1220162986863542272
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