Tuesday, January 2, 2024 DAILY TALKING POINTS This Year the Fate of Our Democracy, Fundamental Rights, and Freedoms Are On the Line As we kick off this election year, the choice before the American people couldn’t be more clear. The choice this November will not simply be between competing philosophies of governing – it will be about protecting our democracy and the very individual freedoms we enjoy as Americans. The threat Donald Trump posed in 2020 to American democracy has only grown more dire since then. At the direction of Donald Trump, the MAGA Republican Party has openly embraced a platform of election denialism, undermining our country’s democratic institutions, and restricting the right to vote.
Trump is running a campaign on revenge and retribution. It’s a vision of dividing our country, attacking our values, and eroding our ideals. And it would come at the expense of Americans’ freedoms: Reproductive freedoms: Trump paved the way for ripping away the freedom for millions of Americans to get the reproductive care they need by nominating Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. Because of Donald Trump, 1 in 3 women of reproductive age now live under an abortion ban. And now he’s running to ban abortion nationwide. The freedom to live in safe communities: Trump and his extreme MAGA disciples want to jeopardize the freedom to live in a country where political violence is unacceptable; the freedom for our children to learn in schools free of gun violence; and the freedom for every American to be who they are without fear. Bedrock economic freedoms: MAGA Republicans want to return to the failed trickle-down economics that protects the rich on the backs of the middle class – threatening to cut Social Security and Medicare to pay for his handouts to the ultra-wealthy, incentivizing shipping good paying jobs overseas, and gutting affordable health care by repealing the Affordable Care Act.
Meanwhile, President Biden and Vice President Harris are offering a different vision. They are determined to build a more fair and more free America: Where the economy is built from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down. That restores Roe so that once again, women have the freedom to make their own health care decisions. That protects our most vulnerable. Where everyone can live, work, and retire with the dignity owed to every single American.
Time and time again, voters have rejected the existential threat to freedom and democracy that Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans represent. The American people rejected MAGA extremism and chose President Biden and Democrats’ vision of unity over division and hope over fear in 2020—and they'll do it again this year.
2023 Was A Good Year For the Middle Class In Biden’s America When President Biden took office, he inherited an economy from Donald Trump that had been rigged for the ultra-rich and left in shambles. But he had a theory and a plan to grow the economy from the middle out and bottom up — and that plan is working. Thanks to President Biden’s leadership, the U.S. economy consistently defied expectations, making 2023 a good year for workers and middle-class families: Annual inflation fell to its lowest level in more than two and a half years. Incomes grew 3.7% last year, adjusted for inflation. Grocery and energy prices fell in November and gas prices are down $1.85 from their peak after Putin’s war Prices are down for a number of products over the last year, from eggs and milk to toys, TVs, and many appliances. 14.1 million jobs have been created – including about 800,000 manufacturing jobs – and unemployment has been under 4% for 22 months in a row. And consumer sentiment is surging as Bidenomics builds the economy from the middle out and bottom up.
But President Biden believes that prices are still too high. That’s why he is fighting every day to continue lowering costs for hardworking families: Capping the cost of insulin at $35 a month and taking on Big Pharma to lower prescription drug costs. Saving 15 million Americans $800 per year on health insurance. Banning hidden junk fees. Cracking down on price gouging by calling on corporations to pass savings on to consumers. Strengthening supply chains so Americans get the products they need when they need them.
It’s a stark contrast with Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans’ record of trickle-down policies that failed Americans, by creating new incentives to ship jobs overseas, hurting main-street businesses, and blowing up the deficit. And they still don’t have a plan to lower costs. In fact, Trump and MAGA Republicans are doubling down on an even more extreme plan – MAGAnomics – that puts the wealthy ahead of the middle class and will harm the American economy: Cuts taxes even further for the wealthy and big corporations. Cuts Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Raises costs for families by gutting investments in the middle class.
CONTENT TO AMPLIFY Please see below for key content we would appreciate your help in amplifying: The Philadelphia Inquirer: It was a good year for workers in Biden’s America | Editorial The Hollywood Reporter: President Biden Shares New Year’s Message, Favorite Holiday Food During Interview With Ryan Seacrest The Hill: Biden responds to Trump’s ‘rot in Hell’ comment: ‘Love your enemies’ @juliahamelburg: No better way to ring in the new year than Biden campaign co chair Rep. @ClyburnSC06 laying out President Biden’s historic record: “Joe Biden has kept his promises to the American people and he has been an incredibly good president — the best producer since LBJ.” @mkikukawa46: WATCH: @econjared46 on the year in review:
No “inevitable” recession
Unemployment below 4% for 22 months in a row
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