The Biden campaign’s social media accounts on Friday shared a video endorsing the president from a once-undecided voter who became a community activist after being convicted.
“I’m definitely voting for Biden,” William Latif Little said in the video. Posts The Biden-Harris HQ X account added that Thursday’s debate was the deciding factor for him. Little was convicted of third-degree murder in 1989 and served 10 years in prison, but has since become active in community efforts to reduce violent crime. according to In the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Biden’s performance in Thursday’s debate, which included a number of gaffes, has raised strong concerns among Democratic Party leaders, with many calling for him to resign, and The New York Times editorial board has since called on the president to withdraw from the presidential race. (Related article: Biden camp makes big profit after Trump is convicted)
In a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation, Little pointed to Biden’s economic policies and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine as reasons why he didn’t state his support for Biden before the debate.
“I’m not a blind voter, so I want to see what’s actually going on,” Little told the DCNF. “So, I’m now [Biden] The story is…the hope is that Democrats can hold him accountable for rebuilding the economy.”
“We have two of the worst people running for president,” Little told the DCNF. “If someone else had run, maybe we would have had a better chance.”
Q: If there was an election tomorrow, who would you vote for?
Pennsylvania voter: I’m definitely voting for Biden
Q: Was that your answer before the debate?
Pennsylvania voters: No pic.twitter.com/J9aQ2ofDW8
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) June 28, 2024
Little told the DCNF that he has no opinion about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He also praised former President Donald Trump’s economic policies but said the president’s “hyperbole” and “extreme” political positions discouraged him from supporting him.
Regarding his murder conviction, Little told the DCNF that he acted in self-defense, that he was simply returning fire after his friends were shot outside an ice rink in Philadelphia, a claim he argued in court but was unsuccessful.
“Will looked around for leadership and advice and ultimately found what he needed in gangs, drugs and violence,” the biography section of Little’s personal website reads. read“His experiences led to a shootout that took the life of another man just like him.”
Little stressed that he had done a “180 degree turn” and that his life was now focused on spreading a message of “forgiveness and redemption,” speaking in schools, prisons and corporate America. He noted that the brother of the man he killed eventually forgave him and worked with him as an activist for several years.
Biden’s performance in Thursday’s debate sent shockwaves across the Democratic Party, with liberal megadonors even considering intervening to call for the president to drop out of the race.
In addition to the tweets and apparent health issues, Biden also falsely claimed during the debate that no service members had been killed overseas during his time in office, for example, even though 13 service members were killed during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
Biden also claimed that Trump had called neo-Nazis “very fine people.” Exposed By fact checkers.
Convicted rapper Fat Joe also endorsed Biden after the debate and appeared with the president at a rally in North Carolina on Friday, Axios reported. reportA federal court sentenced Fat Joe to four months in prison for failing to file tax returns on income of more than $3.3 million. according to To the Department of Justice.
The Biden campaign did not respond to DCNF’s request for comment.
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