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Biden Opens Stimulus Road
Hoping To Deny DeSantis Re-Election And End His Presidential Hopes Democrats Launch Operation ‘Ron Be Gone’
Show In Pennsylvania To
Rebut GOP Attacks
Democrats announced for- mation of “Ron Be Gone” on Monday, a fundraising, ad- vertising and organizing ve- hicle aimed at preventing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis from winning re-election next year.
A bonus, if they contribute to defeating DeSantis, would be imploding his prospects as a 2024 Republi- can presidential candidate.
Even the name, which
sounds like a pest removal product, shows the depth of Democratic animosity to- ward the Republican gover- nor.
“We cannot let this man coast to re-election,” said Coral Springs Commissioner Joshua Simmons, one of the public leaders of the new effort. “He’s put his own po- litical career above the wel- fare and well-being of the people of Florida.”
President Joe Biden
visited voters in the key swing state of Pennsylvania on Tuesday as part of an effort to persuade Americans that the $1.9 trillion relief measure he signed will help struggling in- dividuals and businesses.
The first stop on Biden’s trip will be Chester, just south of Philadelphia, to highlight the law’s nearly $56 billion for small businesses.
Biden said on Monday that his administration will soon have overseen the delivery of 100 million vaccine shots as well as 100 million relief pay- ments. “Shots in arms and money in pockets,” as he put it.
Biden recalled earlier this month that he’d pushed then- President Barack Obama to be more aggressive in pro- moting the American Recov- ery and Reinvestment Act after it became law in 2009 but that Obama was “too modest” about the accom- plishment.
“I kept saying, ‘Tell people what we did.’ He kept saying,
GOV. RON DESANTIS
PRES. JOE BIDEN
‘We don’t have time, we’re not going to take a victory lap,” Biden said. “And we paid a price for it, ironically, for that humility.”
The new law’s provisions - - including direct checks of up to $1,400 per person and child tax credits, as well as funding to expand COVID-19 vaccination efforts and boost school reopening efforts -- have been winning the sup- port of two-thirds of Ameri- cans in polls.
Democrat Abrams Urges Lifting Filibuster For U.S. Election Reform Bill
WASHINGTON - Stacey Abrams, an influential fig- ure in Democratic circles, called on Sunday for the U.S. Senate to exempt election re- form legislation passed by the House of Representatives over Republican opposition from a procedural hurdle called the filibuster.
“Protection of democracy is so fundamental that it should be exempt from the filibuster rules,” Abrams, a former senior state legislator and unsuccessful gubernato- rial candidate in Georgia who helped Democrats win two U. S. Senate runoff elections in her home state in January,
STACEY ABRAMS
told CNN’s “State of the Union” program.
The Democratic-led House on March 3 passed a bill in-
tended to reform voting pro- cedures, increase voter par- ticipation and require states to assign independent com- missions the task of redraw- ing congressional districts to guard against partisan ma- nipulation.
There is a debate among Democrats, who narrowly control the Senate thanks to the two Georgia victories, on whether to modify or even eliminate the filibuster, a longstanding fixture that makes it so most legislation cannot advance without 60 votes in the 100-seat Senate rather than a simple major- ity.
'It's Wrong, It's Un-American And It Must Stop': Pres. Biden Denounces Attacks Against Asian Americans
During his first primetime address to the nation, Presi- dent Joe Biden denounced violent attacks against Asian Americans during the coron- avirus pandemic as un-Amer- ican, calling on the attacks to end immediately.
Discussing how the pan- demic had served to divide and antagonize Americans on a range of issues, Biden called out "vicious hate crimes against Asian Ameri- cans who've been attacked, harassed, blamed and scape-
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN
goated."
"At this very moment, so
many of them, our fellow Americans, are on the front- lines of this pandemic trying to save lives," Biden said of Asian Americans who have worked in front-line jobs dur- ing the pandemic. "And still, still they are forced to live in fear for their lives just walk- ing down streets in America. It's wrong, it's un-American and it must stop," Biden de- clared in his condemnation of the attacks.
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