Thread by @Laurie_Garrett

Last night #JoeBiden gave a speech in Denver: a few quotes:
-This month in local elections, "The American people voted to protect the fundamental freedoms, like the right to choose. They voted to protect democracy. They voted against the extremism of our opponents."
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2/#Biden
-"Democrats up & down the ticket ran on our record. They're proud of that Biden-Harris agenda...each of the people who won this off-year election cited the record they ran on. And it's a winning election."
-"the only reason there's a ban on #abortion --"
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3/#Biden
-"...& the circumstances in many places is because of #DonaldTrump ."
-New #Democrat election victories are, "just because the #Republican friends found out the power of women in America. Well, Donald Trump is about to find out about the power of women in 2024."
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4/#Biden
-#DonaldTrump announced his latest idea...He said he wants to get rid of the Affordable Care Act...There are 40 million people in America today who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. His plan is to throw every one of them off that."
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5/#Biden
-He's in Cong. #LaurenBoebert district, where, "We're going to a wind energy company that plans to invest an additional $200 million to expand the facility in Colorado, double its production, add 850 new jobs -- good-paying jobs.
But the congresswoman..."
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6/#Biden
-"...along with every single one of her #Republican colleagues, voted against the law I signed that made these investments possible. And then she voted to repeal it, and she called it a massive failure...And she went on and voted against the Bipartisan..."
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7/#Biden
-"...Infrastructure Law. She called it garbage. It’s building bridges, roads, Internet, et cetera. And she called it a scam."
-"One of the ways that we paid for our investments & cut the debt by $7 billion -- is by making corporations pay their fair share..."
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8/#Biden
-"...Remember back in 2020, there were 55 corporations in the Fortune 500 corporate world that made $40 billion in profit who didn’t pay a single penny in tax. But by making sure they pay that 15 percent minimum tax, we paid for everything that we've proposed."
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9/#Biden
-"We had 750 billionaires b4 the #pandemic . You know what their tax rate is? Eight percent...That's wrong. That's why I'm proposing a billionaire minimum tax...at just 25%. That's a hell of a lot less than all of you pay."
-"I’m tired of trickle-down economics."
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10/#Biden
-"I guarantee that no one making less than $400,000 a year would pay a penny more -- in federal taxes -- as long as I was President of the United States."
-"Our democracy is at stake...because the same man who proclaims himself to be a proud election denier.."
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11/#Biden
-"...the same man who is promising pardons for the January 6th insurrectionists, the same man who said, and I quote, he wants to terminate -- quote, 'termination of all rules, regulations, articles, & even [those] found in the Constitution.' He means it."
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12/#Biden
-#Trump "intends to use the presidency for he says, 'revenge & retribution.' It's a President of the United States saying those things...And on more than one occasion, he's made a joke about the assault on Paul #Pelosi , Speaker Pelosi’s husband, with a hammer.."
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13/#Biden
-"...to the head trying to kill him. Well, guess what? If you can joke about that, you really have no business being anywhere near the presidency...we’ve never talked this way b4 in American politics...And there's no place in America for political violence..."
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14/#Biden
-"...under any circumstances. None, zero, ever."
-"#Trump said if he returned to office, he would go after all those who oppose him, root out what he called the 'vermin' in America...These are his quotes. That's a specific phrase with a specific meaning..."
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15/#Biden
-"That goes to the language we heard in Germany in the ‘30s. #Trump also talked about, quote, 'the blood of our country is being poisoned,' end of quote. God Almighty."
-"Folks, we just can't fall numb to #Trump & the threats he poses. #DonaldTrump & the..."
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16/#Biden
-"...extreme MAGA Republicans are determined to destroy American democracy as we know it."
-"When I look at America, I see the strongest economy in the world, an America that's once again leading the world in foreign policy. #DonaldTrump sees an angry, dark..."
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17/#Biden
-"...dismal, divided future of America, but I don't. Folks, I mean this from the bottom my heart: I've never been more optimistic about America...Like I said, we just have to remember who we are."