Trump makes race the 2020 about ‘freedom’ — and keeping prisoners from voting by stableford
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Except everybody didn’t agree with him. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., each said they opposed giving violent criminals the right to vote from prison. “Every day, citizens across America exercise their constitutional right to defend themselves, their families and their communities,” the president said. “That’s a constitutional right. They want to take it away from you. They will take it away from you. If you let these maniacs get into office, they will take that right away, let me tell you.”
Biden answered “no” when asked if he would commit to serve just one term. He will be 77 on Election Day next year and — if he wins — 82 at the end of his first term.Also Friday, the Biden campaign announced that it raised $6.3 million in its first 24 hours — more than any campaign has done on the first day so far this cycle. Biden topped the first-day totals of Beto O'Rourke and Bernie Sanders .
“Are we not going to fight because we’re afraid?” she asked. “Are we going to show up for people that we didn’t actually believe in, because we were afraid to do anything else? That’s not who we are. We’ve got a room full of people here who weren’t given anything.”Appearing at the same She The People forum, Bernie Sanders was heckled by several audience members while he recalled participating in the March on Washington in 1963 and hearing Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
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