PIVOT Statement on President Biden concluding his presidential re-election campaign

July 22, 2024

Throughout his three and a half years in office, President Biden has served the American people by expanding healthcare, forgiving student loans, supporting living wages for workers, and implementing historic climate programs. As he concluded his presidential re-election campaign on Sunday, he added yet another consequential act to this list.

By stepping aside, President Biden is putting the interests of the American people ahead of his own through an unprecedented act of selfless leadership. This act is all the more significant given that American democracy and the freedoms it protects are at stake in this election.

As a young American community of refugees and children of refugees, we Vietnamese Americans understand the feelings of freedom lost and found in our own lifetimes and those of our family members. We do not take American freedom and democracy for granted. We are acutely aware of the danger this country faces from a party that is willing to seize power by force, as it attempted to do on January 6th, 2021.

Through his action on Sunday, President Biden has done his part for this country in this election. We at PIVOT look forward to doing our part,  to work with like-minded Vietnamese Americans to win the elections with all that is at stake.