Presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden has wrapped the last of the major endorsements he hoped to receive as he heads toward what will likely be a pro-forma vote at the party’s national convention in August.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) endorsed Biden on Twitter this morning.
Warren’s endorsement follows that of Barack Obama, who finally endorsed Biden yesterday, and socialist Bernie Sanders, who dropped out of the race last week and claimed his candidacy proved that Americans want a totalitarian socialist government.
A Life in Public Service
Warren tweeted twice about Biden at 9 a.m.
“In this moment of crisis, it’s more important than ever that the next president restores Americans’ faith in good, effective government — and I’ve seen Joe Biden help our nation rebuild. Today, I’m proud to endorse @JoeBiden as President of the United States,” the failed candidate wrote.
A campaign video that claimed Biden “grew up on the ragged edge of the middle class in Scranton” accompanied that tweet.
Biden now lives on the ragged edge of the One Percent, but anyway, Warren continued.
“Now it’s up to all of us to help make @JoeBiden the next president,” she tweeted seconds later. “Let’s get to work. Go to http://JoeBiden.com right now, and chip in your $5, make some calls, send some texts — because we are all in this together.”
Warren also e-mailed supporters, The Hill reported, although that message will provide a reason for some Americans not to vote for the elderly Democrat.
“Joe Biden has spent nearly his entire life in public service,” the senator wrote. “He knows that a government run with integrity, competence, and heart will save lives and save livelihoods. And we can’t afford to let Donald Trump continue to endanger the lives and livelihoods of every American,” she said in an e-mail to supporters.
More than a few Americans, including the supporters of Sanders whom Biden hopes to lock down in November, don’t likely think Warren’s praise on that count merits a vote for Biden. A man who “has spent nearly his entire life in public service” — which means collecting a government paycheck as an elected official and not working in the real world — isn’t the man many Americans want to see back in the White House.
Indeed, many of the ills Biden and his endorsers claim he can cure are a direct result of his “life in public service.” As a senator, then as vice president, he helped create the problems he now tells Americans he can solve.
Biden was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972.
Obama, Sanders
The question is why Obama waited so long to endorse his former top hand. The former president’s delay suggests that he didn’t support Biden, and has now endorsed him because he was the last candidate standing.
“Choosing Joe to be my Vice President was one of the best decisions I ever made, and he became a close friend. And I believe Joe has all the qualities we need in a President right now,” Obama said.
Biden thanked Obama, and helpfully didn’t ask, “what took you so long,” but in any event the delayed endorsement suggests that Trump campaign chief Brad Parscale is right: The former president had nowhere else to go.
“Barack Obama spent much of the last five years urging Joe Biden not to run for president out of fear that he would embarrass himself,” he said. “Now that Biden is the only candidate left in the Democrat field, Obama has no other choice but to support him.”
“Even Bernie Sanders beat him to it,” Trump’s campaign chief said.
Sanders endorsed Biden Monday because Trump “is the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country.”
Last week, after Sanders dropped out of the race, his youth supporters promised to spend $100 million to help elect Biden if he hired socialists to run his administration and adopted Sanders’ menu of totalitarian economic policies such as “free” college and healthcare, the Green New Deal, and national licensing of firearms.
At least one of Sanders’ top aides isn’t too happy about the old socialist’s move.
“With the utmost respect for Bernie Sanders, who is an incredible human being & a genuine inspiration, I don’t endorse Joe Biden,” tweeted Briahna Joy Gray, spokeswoman for Sanders’ ill-fated campaign.
“I supported Bernie Sanders because he backed ideas like #MedicareForAll, cancelling ALL student debt, & a wealth tax. Biden supports none of those.”
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R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.
