More for Joe Biden:
The former vice president is exactly what our country needs now: a decent, calming leader who will try to unify a country that hasn’t been this divided in decades. Biden is a moderate Democrat who can be counted on to push for the changes the American people need, like better health care and more logical tax policies, without drifting into the extremism of some members of his party.
Donald Trump has been a huge disappointment. He came into Washington as an outsider and could have shaken up the system in a positive way. Instead he veered far to the right politically and showed little respect for the rule of law. His mishandling of the coronavirus has had tragic implications. On top of everything, his bullying conduct during the first debate was atrocious. We can’t imagine a single parent in Southeast Texas who would tolerate their child acting like that.
Biden isn’t perfect, but he’s right for the times. The sooner the Oval Office has a trusted adult inside of it, the better.
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This country needs a leader with a clear vision for progress in the days ahead; who has the experience and temperament to, if not heal our divisions, at least lower the temperature.
This country needs a leader who can deliver us from the exhaustion that has set upon this country.
This country needs Joe Biden to be the 46th president of the United States, and we wholeheartedly endorse him.
We have watched Biden up close and from afar for more than three decades. He's visited this area frequently in his campaigns for president and as vice president in the Obama administration.
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reach across the aisle to work with Republicans on important issues that have sat idle for the last four years: improving infrastructure, addressing important environmental and climate-related issues, calming racial tensions, fixing federal health care programs, re-engaging with our allies in NATO and other confederations and more.
In his long public career, Biden has been a moderate, pragmatic politician — too moderate and cautious for some in his party. But that’s what Americans yearn for after four years of controversy and chaos in the Trump years.
Biden isn’t perfect, but we believe he will surround himself with smart advisers and select a seasoned, stable Cabinet whose members can speak freely without fear of being insulted on Twitter by the president.
This paper never endorsed a Democrat before.
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Biden’s humble roots in Scranton, Penn., the personal hardship he endured after a car crash killed his wife and daughter, the 120-mile commutes back and forth to Washington so he could tuck his sons in bed each night — these are experiences Americans can relate to and they help Biden relate to us.
Still, many who plan to vote for Trump, some with pinched nose, act as though character itself were a luxury — nice if you can get it, but not essential.
We disagree. Character, in this election, is everything.
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Austin Chronicle has no editorial but just mentions endorsing Biden/Harris.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer: This unfortunately is behind a paywall.
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At this moment, the former vice-president is an ideal fit. After four years of being traumatized by a president who shows a fondness for conflict and cruelty, the country is looking for a man with Biden’s compassion and integrity, someone dedicated to improving the lives of Americans who have fallen behind. He is, as a Washington Post columnist once described him, “startlingly human.”
He holds the rarest of commodities in politics — character, decency, and principle — but with five decades in government, Biden also has a comprehensive understanding of how it can be a force for good. He does not flinch at challenges. When the nation faced another panic in 2009, he was entrusted by President Obama to negotiate a bipartisan recovery package, and Biden’s leadership saved the auto industry and perhaps the economy itself.
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Today, we call on Free Press readers to support the election of a new president who can restore dignity and integrity to an office debased and diminished by its current occupant.
Former Vice President JOE BIDEN, whose name and decades of public service are familiar to generations of American voters, is the man Democrats have nominated to undertake that critical mission, and we are confident that he is a trustworthy choice — the only responsible choice, in fact, for voters who wish to see this country's 244-year-old experiment in government by, for and of the people continue.
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Biden’s critics argue that he offers little to our country. But they sidestep the enormous value of his background: Biden has witnessed and participated in Washington’s national policy debates for decades, and that experience has informed him deeply about our country, its principles and the best ways to achieve national progress.
Biden has seen statesmen and stateswomen achieve great accomplishments in the Senate, and he has seen layabouts and buffoons waste their privilege of service as senators. He has witnessed how bipartisan cooperation can bring about landmark change, and how petty political warring needlessly fritters away vital opportunities for progress.
The list of issues Biden has seen debated, and helped address, in the Senate is impressively long and notable. Here is a small sampling: Renewals of the federal Voting Rights Act. The extent of presidential war powers. Strategies for strengthening U.S. military effectiveness. Details of environmental regulation. Restructuring the nation’s intelligence community. Support for disabled Americans.
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This country needs a leader with a clear vision for progress in the days ahead; who has the experience and temperament to, if not heal our divisions, at least lower the temperature.
This country needs a leader who can deliver us from the exhaustion that has set upon this country.
This country needs Joe Biden to be the 46th president of the United States, and we wholeheartedly endorse him.
We have watched Biden up close and from afar for more than three decades. He's visited this area frequently in his campaigns for president and as vice president in the Obama administration.
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Scranton Times-Tribune: Another paper behind a paywall.
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More to follow tomorrow.
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