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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 12, 2021

In America, if you lose, you accept the results, you follow the Constitution. You try again. You don't call facts fake, and then try to bring down the American experiment just because you're unhappy. That's not statesmanship.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 12, 2021

There's an unfolding assault taking place in America today, an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections, an assault on democracy, an assault on liberty, and an assault on who we are -- who we are as…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 12, 2021

The assault on free and fair elections is just such a threat, literally. I've said it before. We're facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 12, 2021

We`re facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That`s not hyperbole. The 21st century Jim Crow assault is real. It`s unrelenting. And we`re going to challenge it vigorously. The big lie is just that, a big lie.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 12, 2021

It puts the burden back on Congress to restore the voting rights act to its intended strength. As soon as Congress passes the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Advancement Act, I will sign it and let the whole world see it. That…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 12, 2021

No other election has ever been held under such scrutiny and such high standards. The big lie is just that, a big lie. The denial of full and free and fair elections is the most un-American thing that any of us can imagine, the most…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 12, 2021

Biden, you know, is very skeptical of the military`s role in Washington policy debates. He said on the campaign trail that he helped to bring home the vast majority of the troops.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 11, 2021

And includes cracking down on holding rogue gun dealers accountable for violating the federal law and includes the Justice Department creating five new strike forces to crackdown on illegal gun trafficking, and McCarter supplying weapons…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 9, 2021

The United States expects, when a ransomware operation is coming from his soil, even though it`s not -- not sponsored by the state, we expect them to act if we give them enough information to act on who that is.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 9, 2021

If your companies want to win your business, they have to go out and they have to up their game, better prices and services, new ideas and products. By the same token, competitive economy means companies must do all they do - everything…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 9, 2021

There is a home for you in the United States if you so choose and we will stand with you just as you stood with us.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 9, 2021

We will stand by them as they stood by us.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 9, 2021

It was the president who convened this meeting out of a shared belief that American democracy is in peril, like nothing we have seen in the modern era.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 9, 2021

Our economy isn`t about people working for capitalism. It`s about capitalism working for people.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 9, 2021

Think of the 26-year-old employee at a company. She`s a star worker, but she isn`t being treated right. She`s underpaid, passed over for promotions. A competitor across the street knows and wants to bring her in at a higher wage, but she…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 9, 2021

the economic policy of the last 40 years has failed.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jul 9, 2021

But I think the president understands what`s at stake. And certainly, he`s prepared to give voice to those concerns.

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