John, I shared some thoughts at a DNC-Biden campaign press conference in Milwaukee earlier this week at the Republican National Convention.
I thought you should see them in their entirety.
I have a simple test when I support a leader or not.
Simple test.
You cannot lead the people if you don’t love the people.
Not just the people who vote for you.
I’ve listened to Donald Trump.
I’ve known him for years — way before he was a politician — and I've listened to the demeaning and degrading ways he talks about people and places.
The way he talks about women who don’t support him.
The way he talks about people in his own party.
God, the disgusting things he said about my former governor, Chris Christie.
The way he attacks people’s weaknesses or disabilities.
I’ve heard how he talks about people.
It does not connote anybody to believe that he loves folk.
America, you have a lot of choices on policy, on facts, but I want America to think about something also.
At a time when people are talking about tamping down political rhetoric,
THAT IS NOT ENOUGH.
We have a problem in this country that we HATE each other.
Just because of how we vote.
Caricatures are being produced of Democrats and Republicans that are so far from the truth.
I see it in the Senate.
Nobody wants to talk about our bipartisan bills.
Everybody wants to talk about our disagreement.
This is a vote on policy, America, choose who’s going to be best for the bottom line of your family, but God, in this time, look for leaders that lead with love.
With love and gratitude,
Cory
