After months of silence and speculation, former President Barack Obama formally endorsed his former Vice President, Joe Biden, in his campaign for President of the United States on April 14. In the process, Obama called for a far more aggressive “progressive” agenda than the one he campaigned on himself.
“I could not be prouder of the incredible progress that we made together during my presidency, but if I were running today, I wouldn’t run the same race or have the same platform as I did in 2008,” Obama said. “The world is different; there’s too much unfinished business for us to just look backwards. We have to look to the future. Bernie understands that, and Joe understands that.”
“It is one of the reasons that Joe already has what is the most progressive platform of any major-party nominee in history,” he continued. “Because even before the pandemic turned the world upside down, it was already clear that we needed real structural change.” Full Story - Calvin Frieburger - LifeSite News
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