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First Lady Jill Biden visited the Upper Peninsula on Thursday as she campaigned on behalf of her husband, less than six months before the presidential election.
Biden spoke to supporters at the Ore Dock Brewing Company in Marquette. She urged women to get to the polls in November, and to avoid what she called a “disaster” of Trump becoming president for a second time.
“Do you remember how you felt eight years ago, when we woke up the morning after Election Day,” Biden asked the crowd. “We were asking, Oh My God, what do we do now (that Trump was elected). We are the first generation in half a century to give our daughters a country with fewer rights than we had. Book bans. Voting laws gutted. Court decisions that strip away our most basic freedoms.”
Biden championed her husband’s efforts to legalize abortion across the country, after the Roe vs Wade decision was overturned by the Supreme Court, allowing individual states to determine the legality of abortion within their borders.
“President Biden is fighting for a national law that would restore Roe’s protections,” Mrs. Biden said. “He is defending reproductive rights. Women put Joe Biden in the White House four years ago, and women are going to do it again! We know what’s at stake. I’ve been so proud of how Joe has placed women at the center of his agenda.”
She said that women need to band together to prevent a Trump return to the White House.
“Here’s the thing about men like Donald Trump,” Biden said. “They underestimate our power because they don’t understand. We will decide our future. We are going to meet this moment as if our rights are at stake, because they are! As if our democracy is on the line, because it is!”
Mrs. Biden, along with Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, continued their campaign trip to the eastern Upper Peninsula Thursday night. They were scheduled to meet with the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians and with the Bay Mills Indian Comunity in Brimley. The “Women For Biden” tour continues with a visit to the Soo Locks on Friday, followed by a community meeting at noon in Sault Ste. Marie.
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