This is something that I would never have predicted in a million years ! Watching and hearing AB Stoddard say this grabs me ! It reinforces that there really is right and wrong morally speaking and that we and President Biden are on the right path! It is to my mind impossible or nearly impossible for a person to be more supportive of President Biden for doing the right thing and working hard to get to solutions instead of trying to only use problems to benefit politically than AB Stoddard is! These words from AB Stoddard made my day, week, month. She sees what many of us here see in President Biden. Her humility and kind words and support for President Biden and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, but especially President Biden, really encourages me. I know that we have had differences in the past with her, but that is in the past and our coalition which includes you and me and her and our democrats in Congress and President Biden and Vice President Harris and Senator Bernie Sanders and so many others must win ! We win by being disciplined and unified and keeping our eye on the ball, recognizing that this moment we are in now in which we all are facing an existential threat to our democracy is important now rather than our differences in the past.
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AB Stoddard says, "I am relying on him (Mike Johnson) to disappoint me in the next six months [after finally doing the right thing]
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Jonathan V Last said, "Sure. I would like to take just a brief moment here to throw some attaboys at Hakeem Jeffries and Joe Biden because again like Mike Johnson doesn't get to yes unless he has governing partners in the Democratic Party who are making, who are walking on the road to Damascus with him and who are not trying to make his life harder because they saw this as a winning political issue that they could impose on the Republicans for and like once again Hakeem Jeffries seems like a very able leader who is able to hold his coalition together and do the right thing for America and Joe Biden was like you know, hey we are going to put a bunch of intelligence in front of you to show you why we're talking about this stuff and why it's important and we"re going to work with you and help get you to yes instead of going up there and trying to dominate him and bully him into submission and I, I don't get it, I don't understand how anybody could look at the last four years and not see Joe Biden as a quite effective president who has gotten a very large amount of legislation done with almost no margins in Congress and much of that legislation good legislation addressing the most important problems facing the country. Like I just don't, again nobody is more surprised than me that Joe Biden has been a very good president but there it is.
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AB Stoddard says, "So, I'm with you, I mean people don't get credit when they don't when things don't blow up and escalate out of control, so now Hakeem Jeffries through this entire process of providing most of the votes for all of the spending bills and the things that Republicans need to get passed in this aid package have come from democrats . (A) They don't rub it in the republicans' faces and (B) you don't see any left wing members coming out and saying, 'I am just sick of us giving this dysfunctional majority our votes when we are the minority party, we should be doing message speeches , screaming on the House floor while these guys are tasked with governing and they are supposed to hold this place up. Nothing! And that's all because of the leadership of Hakeem Jeffries, obviously the influence of Nancy Pelosi and you and I have trusted that Joe Biden was doing what you just described all these months, trying to keep coming back to Johnson and bringing the experts in and the expertise to him , coming down to him, giving him the quiet space and being patient. I wanted him to go on offense when they left for vacation three weeks ago, I wanted or four weeks ago I wanted him to say around Easter , 'These guys just left for two weeks, Ukrainians are dying, this city just got attacked by the Russians last night, this one the day before, I'm over it . He didn't do it. Because he was working to the good end and so you and I today are trusting just like he did on Iran with Israel, just like we know that he is working the Israel Gaza issue night and day to try to produce a good outcome and he's not talking about it. And if one comes, we'll say, 'That's Joe Biden! Everyone underestimates him. He's always working, he's always effective, he does it better than anyone else can , he has all the relationships, he has all the experience, he doesn't have the ego , he doesn't have to punch people, he just wants to govern. ' but the fact that that is so not appreciated by the American public makes me just I don't delirious.
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Jonathan V Last, "It really is crazy to me . We have these two polar opposites, Biden is this quiet guy who governs and gets legislation passed and Trump doesn't, isn't even interested in legislation. As you said, in public opinion surveys, even in polls that are good for Biden people think Trump is more effective and I just weep for America (exasperated)"
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AB Stoddard, "Because he screams! I know! That's absolutely and that's what is so amazing is that people could learn afterwards that Joe Biden brought this along , helped create the outcome, you know gave Johnson the space that they wouldn't say, 'This is so wonderful. They worked together, Joe Biden didn't attack him, democrats and republicans but it's not a central tenet of the campaign. ' Governing is unpopular. And we really came so close to a new era in this country. It wasn't automatic that that was going to come. It was after six months, no aid had been passed since 2022, absolutely Joe made the argument again and again that it wasn't going to happen, (unintelligible) Merrick Garland of this session is going to go until after the election, it's really incredible that we, right that we avoided that, that spiral of failure, but are people going to be buying champagne or the hat over sending $25? (Emotions were apparent!)
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Jonathan V Last, "But if Trump gets arrested for contempt of court that will be a fundraising bonanza. AB , it's good to see you even though we both feel like ass, Good luck America !
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I am so proud of President Joe Biden and our Democratic Party!
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The poll intentionally pushes leaners for an important reason.