Democratic Primaries

Eugene

(67,336 posts) Tue Apr 7, 2020, 06:22 AM Apr 2020

Biden nabs endorsement of prominent black lawmaker John Lewis

Source: Reuters

POLITICS APRIL 7, 2020 / 5:37 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

Biden nabs endorsement of prominent black lawmaker John Lewis

Trevor Hunnicutt
1 MIN READ

(Reuters) - U.S. Representative John Lewis of Georgia endorsed Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Tuesday, giving the Democrat’s bid further support among the party’s black leadership.

“Joe Biden has no delusion about this nation’s past, but he knows who we can be at our best,” Lewis said in a campaign video announcing his support.

Lewis is known for his activism in the 1960s in support of civil rights for black Americans.

Biden is seeking his party’s nomination to face President Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 election.

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If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Biden nabs endorsement of prominent black lawmaker John Lewis (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2020 OP

"Prominent black lawmaker" Loki Liesmith Apr 2020 #1

CNN: Civil rights icon John Lewis endorses Joe Biden Eugene Apr 2020 #2

There ya Go! Thanks, Eugene.. Mahalo, Cha Apr 2020 #3

JOHN Lewis is a national treasure Gothmog Apr 2020 #9

This is big! Really big! What an honor for Biden! NurseJackie Apr 2020 #4

Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2020 #5

:) Well, that's a surprise. Advanced pancreatic cancer is Hortensis Apr 2020 #6

This Asian woman yuiyoshida Apr 2020 #7

This is a major endorsement-John Lewis is a national treasure Gothmog Apr 2020 #8

Loki Liesmith

(4,602 posts)

1. "Prominent black lawmaker"

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2020, 06:24 AM

Apr 2020

Undersells Lewis just a bit.

How about “civil rights icon” ?

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Eugene

(67,336 posts)

2. CNN: Civil rights icon John Lewis endorses Joe Biden

Reply to Loki Liesmith (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 7, 2020, 06:26 AM

Apr 2020

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/07/politics/john-lewis-endorses-joe-biden/index.html

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Cha

(320,703 posts)

3. There ya Go! Thanks, Eugene.. Mahalo,

Reply to Eugene (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 7, 2020, 06:42 AM

Apr 2020

Rep John Lewis!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Gothmog

(182,221 posts)

9. JOHN Lewis is a national treasure

Reply to Loki Liesmith (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 7, 2020, 08:56 AM

Apr 2020

Link to tweet

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If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)

4. This is big! Really big! What an honor for Biden!

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2020, 06:45 AM

Apr 2020

I suspect that even as I write this, in some dark, seedy, and racist corners of the internet... there are hotheaded revolutionary malcontents who are booing him. Sad that there is so much hate and bigotry in the world. It's very distressing.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

6. :) Well, that's a surprise. Advanced pancreatic cancer is

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2020, 06:53 AM

Apr 2020

a grim business, though. Rep. Lewis says he'll campaign aggressively to elect his friend Joe Biden, "travel around America to support him." I hope the traveling is from the comfort of this big man's own home, but we know he'll do what he decides he needs to. There's nothing more important.

NYT: “I know what it is to campaign hard and to work hard,” Mr. Lewis said, acknowledging that he faced some “problems now, but they will not be with me forever.” “And I will be out there working and campaigning for Joe Biden as president of the United States of America.” ...

“If we fail to vote, we don’t count,” he said. But he also expressed concern about voting against the backdrop of a pandemic, in a nation that has struggled with voter suppression, saying that he worried about whether the country would have a “free” election.

“I just hope that, in spite of whatever is going on now, that people will not be afraid to come out and vote,” he said. “We have to vote.”

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

yuiyoshida

(45,811 posts)

7. This Asian woman

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2020, 06:59 AM

Apr 2020

approves this message.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Gothmog

(182,221 posts)

8. This is a major endorsement-John Lewis is a national treasure

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2020, 08:09 AM

Apr 2020

Link to tweet

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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