Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff Helps Open Up the Twelfth Biden/Harris Office in Arizona

Photo from Rhonda Barnard

With a packed crowd of Biden/Harris supporters in attendance, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, with Arizona State Senator Christine Marsh and Texas House Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, helped open up the twelfth Biden/Harris campaign offices in the Grand Canyon state.

The Trump/Vance Campaign does not have that strong an operation in Arizona.

The Second Gentleman took part in several events in the Phoenix area this day.

Arizona State Senator Christine Marsh. Photo by David Gordon.

At the office opening, State Senator Christine Marsh started the event, drawing attention to the MAGA-Republican Project 2025 and what is at stake at both the Federal and State levels if Trumpets forces prevail in the November elections. Among her comments were:

“Their Project 2025 agenda is quite frightening. Project 2025 would ban abortion, in vitro fertilization, direct access to contraception and criminalized medication abortion, which is the most common form of abortion care in the United States. Meanwhile, President Biden and Vice President Harris have committed to restoring Roe and defending our rights to make our own medical choices. Just this week reporting revealed that JD Vance said in 2022 that he would like abortion to be illegal nationally. We have been sounding the alarm on Extreme Arizona Republicans from our legislature to Congress who are looking to restrict access to medication abortions, contraception, and essential medical services like IVF.”

If Project 2025 were enacted, nearly 48 million women of reproductive age would lose their guaranteed access to emergency contraception. Project 2025 will make women second class citizens and turn our country into an authoritarian state…Donald Trump and the radical right legislators here in Arizona are complicit.”

Here in Arizona our elections matter. Our votes matter…It’s not right that the people of Arizona need to brace themselves every few years in hopes that their fundamental rights won’t change. This is why we have to stop Donald Trump and end the reign of his radical right majority in the Arizona Legislature.” 

Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Photo from David Gordon.

Congresswoman Crockett was next and she electrified the audience with a very powerful presentation.

She started off by reminding the audience that she knew how to deal with bullies like Marjorie Taylor Greene.

She warned that the bulk of the contents of Project 2025, which she termed the Republican “Racist Manifesto” had already found a receptive audience in the MAGA Legislatures of the South and Bible Belt and that its Trumpist and Heritage Foundation subscribers were looking to take it to the federal level and would use the activist MAGA courts to make it legal.

Representative Crockett then said that the people of Arizona in this election “matter in this election. You matter not just for your state, but you matter for our country. So I need you to rise to the occasion” and take advantage of “the opportunity” to defeat the MAGA-Trumpist forces this November.

Addressing the issue of President Biden’s age, she responded that “If people say Joe is old, that’s fine. He is. I mean, we not going to lie about it…but he’s an old man that gets it done.”

She reminded the audience that Trump’s Presidency, due to mismanagement of COVID, the tanking of the economy, and the appointment of fringe judges like Aileen Cannon, was a failed one.

Ms. Crockett closed with:

“I don’t really care if you’re a Democrat or Republican or an Independent. I don’t really care if you are from the urban areas or the rural areas…The Democrats is doing to fight for each and every American, even those that will ultimately vote against their interests… There is harm that is coming to each and every 1 of us from the other side. If you don’t believe me, just look at what the Supreme Court has already done for you. There is no perfect candidate…but there is only one team that is looking for a more perfect union. And that is the Biden/Harris team.”

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. Photo by David Gordon

Like Crockett, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff also brought his A game, wowing the crowd at the office opening event.

He started off by telling the audience “We are going to win this election…We are going to keep the progress going under our great President Biden and our great Vice President, my wife.” 

The Second Gentleman said that the people there had to get behind Joe Biden, saying “Joe Biden has had my back. Joe. Biden has had our backs. We need to have his back. We need to have this back right now.”

He also noted all the ways the Biden/Harris Administration has helped move Arizona and the country forward and lift people up, including:

  • The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
  • The CHIPS Science Act.
  • The Prescription Drug Benefit including the reduction in the price of insulin for seniors to $35.00 an order.
  • The removal of lead pipes across the country.

Like Crockett, he blasted the incompetence of the Trump/Pence Administration, calling it self absorbed “a clown show” for its mishandling of the Coronavirus, tanking the economy, and giving tax cuts to the wealthiest that do not need it.

He condemned the Trump attempts to thwart the peaceful transfer of power culminating with his enabling the January 6 Domestic Insurrectionist attack on the Capitol.

Mr. Emhoff blasted the Republican Representatives and Senators who ran for cover when the Trump inspired mob attacked them on January 6, 2021 and then welcomed the man who caused them to flee for their lives that day with open arms when he came to the Capitol last month.

He then concentrated his attack on the MAGA-Heritage Foundation Project 2025, calling it “a step-by-step manual to destroy our country…a blue print to destroy our democracy…” by “a fringe minority (who have) attached themselves to Donald Trump and his cronies and they’re trying to perpetrate their fringe beliefs on the rest of us who do not want it. It’s not American. It’s not who we are as a people. We got to fight this cancer.” 

He also brought up that Project 2025 called for:

  • The dismantling of Head Start.
  • The gutting of Social Security.
  • Taking away veterans medical benefits.
  • Weaponizing the Justice Department and have it seek vengeance and retribution on MAGA’s enemies.
  • Doing away with sensible gun regulations.
  • Doing away with all the clean energy investments the Biden/Harris Administration has made.
  • Ban abortion nationwide and go after “what happens (between couples) behind closed doors.”

The Second Gentleman also gave a plug for Ruben Gallego’s Senate Campaign while taking a jab at Kari Lake and her never ending fascination with election denialism.

Saying “Are you with me,” he closed by calling on everyone there to do their part in the dry heat to get the word out and bring victory to Democrats up and down the ticket this November.


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