Barack Obama Endorses Joe Biden For President

Former President Barack Obama has officially come out today in support of his former vice president. Obama has released a statement officially endorsing Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee for the 2020 presidential race for the White House. The announcement comes shortly after Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign and endorsed his former rival.

“Joe was there as we rebuilt from the Great Recession and rescued the American auto industry. He was the one asking what every policy would do for the middle class and everyone striving to get into the middle class,” he says in a press statement. “That’s why I asked him to implement the Recovery Act, which saved millions of jobs and got people back on their feet – because Joe gets stuff done…Joe helped me manage H1N1 and prevent the Ebola epidemic from becoming the type of pandemic we’re seeing now. He helped me restore America’s standing and leadership in the world on the other threats of our time, like nuclear proliferation and climate change.”

The former president made the announcement on his Twitter with a video praising Biden and stating why he would be a President. He continued to stress the importance of the upcoming election in the wake of the global COVID-19, or novel coronavirus, pandemic.

“Right now, we need Americans of goodwill to unite in a great awakening against a politics that too often has been characterized by corruption, carelessness, self-dealing, disinformation, ignorance, and just plain meanness,” explains Obama in the video. “And to change that, we need Americans of all political stripes to get involved in our politics and our public life like never before.”

I’m proud to endorse my friend @JoeBiden for President of the United States. Let’s go: https://t.co/maHVGRozkX

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 14, 2020