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Apparently Joe Biden Still Has the Nerve to Ask Us for Money.

A response to one of the latest tweets of the President-Elect.

Lauren Elizabeth
4 min readNov 21, 2020
Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

It should go without saying that since before Joe Biden even officially announced he was running for President, I have been less than optimistic about the realities of what his administration would look like. Now President-Elect, leave it to Joe Biden — with a single tweet — to compel me to reach new levels of disgust I frankly never knew existed.

Biden’s Twitter shared a tweet that read:

“Here’s the deal: Because President Trump refuses to concede and is delaying the transition, we have to fund it ourselves and need your help. If you’re able, chip in to help fund the Biden-Harris transition.”

Attached, of course, was a fundraising link.

At this very moment, there are mothers and fathers sitting at the kitchen table, overcome with stress that is going to take years off of their life because they are on the verge of being evicted. There are mothers putting their bank accounts into overdraft just to buy diapers for their baby, and others are sick to their stomachs with worry about how they’re going to…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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