Dear Friend,
President Joe Biden has just announced that he will step aside in the presidential race, clearing a path for another nominee to lead the ticket and face off against former President Trump this November.
We applaud President Joe Biden’s selfless dedication to the cause of democracy and to the American people. His presidency has been among the most successful ever and serves as a capstone to an extraordinary life of public service. He deserves our gratitude and appreciation—and our redoubled commitment to preserving and building on the progress he has led.
At the age of 29, Joe Biden was among the youngest U.S. senators ever elected. Like other young electeds, he has seen public service as a noble path to make social change. His serious and consequential career in the Senate, as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee, placed him at the center of some of the most urgent struggles of our time. He served two terms as vice president to our country’s first Black president and then, in 2020, chose Kamala Harris as his running mate, who made history as the first woman, the first Black American and the first Asian American to serve as vice president.
In 2020, he stepped up to take on the existential threat that was Donald Trump, whose judicial nominations alone will undermine democracy and Americans’ well-being for decades. He won and as President, Joe Biden has delivered for the American people.
He has appointed a group of more than 200 judges that are the most demographically and professionally diverse in U.S. history, including the remarkable Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to be a justice of the Supreme Court.
He led our country and economy out of the COVID-19 crisis. We have record low unemployment–including the lowest Black unemployment in history–and record growth in Black business startups.
He has made historic commitments to cleaner renewable energy. The Bipartisan Infrastructure law has made enormous investments in climate solutions that benefit our communities.
He has championed equal opportunity and civil rights at home and democracy abroad.
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Joe Biden’s long career of public service has shown us how government can be a force for good. We can lift children out of poverty and make health care more affordable for all, promote educational and economic opportunity, enforce civil rights and resist the forces of bigotry and discrimination. President Biden has devoted his life to advancing those goals. But now every bit of progress this country made during his lifetime is at risk.
Joe Biden saved American democracy by defeating Trump in 2020. We need to honor that legacy and do all that we can to stop Donald Trump and his increasingly fascist MAGA movement in November.
We have to step up. Let’s do it together.
Svante Myrick
President
People For the American Way
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