As of yesterday, I have decided to resign from my role as a columnist for The Washington Post — a newspaper that I love. In a moment like this, everyone needs to make their own decisions. This is the reasonfor mine. 🧵
VP Kamala Harris just called into CNN following a briefing on Hurricane Milton. I asked about dangerous misinformation coming in part from Donald Trump. Harris says it is "unconscionable, frankly, that anyone who would consider themselves a leader would mislead desperate people."
As a traveler, I'm both a proud American and a citizen of the world — and I've got a few thoughts on this coming election.
This election is deeper than partisanship. It's far more than Republican versus Democrat. In the future, big challenges like pandemics, refugees, and climate change will be blind to borders. They'll be everyone's problem and only solved by working together as a family of nations.
The world needs not American isolation, but American leadership. Not the chaos of Trump, but the stability of @KamalaHarris.
Of course, how you vote is your choice. But if you believe, as I do, in the importance of nations working together constructively, the stakes are really high...and the best candidate is clear. Register to vote today at https://t.co/ghTvEdFIEP — and encourage your travelin’ friends to do the same!
Hillary Clinton wraps up a great speech: "On the other side of that glass ceiling is Kamala Harris raising her hand and taking the oath of office as the 47th president ... this is when we break through ... let's go win it."
Hillary ran so that Kamala could win.
She took all the arrows, fought the good fight, and is now handing the torch off to Kamala.
None of this would be possible without Hillary Clinton’s leadership. Thank you, Secretary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton ends her DNC speech: "I want my grandchildren and their grandchildren to know that I was here at this moment. That we were here. And that we were with Kamala every step of the way. This is our time. This is when we stand up. This is when we break through."
I can’t think about Joe Biden without tearing up a little.
This man ran for president 5 times and lost then enthusiastically backed Obama and played the establishment number two to the greatest leader of his generation.
He wanted to run for president in 2016 but couldn’t because his son Beau died and he was too wracked with grief.
So he comes back in 2020, saves the country from Donald Trump and despite being a career centrist, proceeds to have the most pro-union, pro-working class administration in 80 years, pulls the country out of Covid, pulls us from the economic disaster of Trump into the best economy in the world.
He’s then betrayed by the media class and has to drop out because he’s too old for them. He steps down, for the good of the country, and immediately turns around and full-throatedly endorses the the first Black woman Presidential candidate finalist in U.S. history.
This man.
He’s been the most competent executive - the actual doing of the job-and working the levers of power - in my lifetime
If we had not been ratfucked by two senators he would have made the largest investments in people since FDR . That to me is just factual truth -
Experience matters -
And I LOVE the idea of a president with the experience of a lifetime in their final chapter of life - calling the shots-
what are they gonna do to him?
He should be able to look anyone in the eye and tell them to go to hell -