{"id":960,"date":"2024-05-23T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2024-05-23T13:27:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:27:54","slug":"biden-credits-georgia-as-the-reason-i-won-during-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Biden credits Georgia as \u2018the reason I won\u2019 during fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"5c53f654ecb6b2e2c397431cfdb6dd0a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:99px 0 99px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M926082ScriptRootC1556461\"><\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/m\/a\/makamuki.com.1556461.js\" async><\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\n<\/div>\n\n<p>President\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0was in\u00a0Georgia\u00a0over the weekend, thanking supporters for voting for him in\u00a02020\u00a0because the state was \u201cthe reason I\u2019m president right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arthur M. Blank held a fundraiser for Biden at his Family Foundation Office on Saturday ahead of his speech at the Morehouse College commencement Sunday. Biden made several stops around the state before and after the fundraiser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you ever doubt the power of the vote, I say come to Georgia. You are the reason I won. Georgia is the reason I\u2019m president right now,\u201d Biden\u00a0said, per the\u00a0<em>Atlanta Journal-Constitutio<\/em>n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden was the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Georgia since 1992. He won 306 total electoral votes, 16 of which came from the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou all brung me to the dance,\u201d Biden said later. \u201cYou really made a gigantic difference. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to forget, but I don\u2019t forget.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden delivered\u00a0his speech\u00a0at Morehouse, a historically black college, without any campaign message. Instead, he touted his administration\u2019s policies \u2014 specifically on race and funding for historically black colleges and universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0was in\u00a0Georgia\u00a0over the weekend, thanking supporters for voting for him in\u00a02020\u00a0because the state was \u201cthe reason I\u2019m president right now.\u201d\u00a0 Arthur M. Blank held a fundraiser for Biden at his Family&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-23-152737.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}