Washington: Joe Biden, the President of the United States, has told his fellow Democratic Congress members that he is in it to win it. Biden clarified in a five-page letter to Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Where he stood and why—and addressed concerns within his party about his campaign.
Biden said he had spoken with “hundreds” of party leaders. Officials and voters have listened carefully to them over the past ten days. The former vice president made himself available as a candidate with no illusions about winning (or losing) a presidential election. What it means to stand in for an incumbent president and represent his party.
Biden wrote in his letter, “I did not take my decision to run for re-election lightly.” He emphasized that he now believes more strongly than ever that Donald Trump must be defeated. If he were any less sure about whether there was someone else better able to do that than him. Who wanted another four years in office anyway?
So, while some within the party — especially those who know Biden best — may have expected his message, it still represented a remarkable rebuke by a sitting president of the media establishment and political donor class whom many Democrats blame for their 2016 loss.
Do we honestly believe that political pundits or cable news anchors know better than millions of Democrats across the country who we should nominate? Or my campaign donors or my social media followers?” Biden asked rhetorically toward the end of his letter. “Do they have more standing than those same voters who took time out of their lives twice now to participate directly in our democracy?
Ignoring those voices would demonstrate unmatched hubris, similar to when Hillary Clinton called half of Trump’s supporters “deplorables” back in 2016.
But this was more than just a warning shot at journalists and wealthy liberals with too much power. It was an indictment of a system that has left millions feeling like their votes and voices don’t matter.
Because I’ll tell you what happens next,” Biden continued. “If we disavow the democratic process within this party. If we tell these voters that their choice doesn’t count — well, then we’re no better than Donald Trump.
He ended his message with a call to arms for the Democratic Party — and himself.
I’m asking you to stand behind me,” Biden wrote. “And I promise you this: He won’t stand a chance if we do.
The message was not just a rallying cry for Democrats but a clear sign that the President knows the high stakes in this election.
The only way we beat him is together. Biden said of Trump toward the close of his letter, so let’s get started.
