Dianne Carter de Mayo, chair of Virginia’s First Congressional District Democratic Committee, issued the following statement on behalf of the National Delegates elected by the committee:
“As a Democratic Committee, we would like to thank President Biden for his many years of service to our nation. He will be remembered for his patriotic love of country before self, for leadership on the world stage, for rebuilding the United States’ relationships with our allies, for rebuilding our domestic infrastructure, for bringing us successfully out of the Covid crisis, and for standing for ‘small-d’ democracy when its very existence was threatened.
“Not since the Civil War have we seen anti-democratic forces threaten our republic in the ways we’ve seen since January 6th, 2021, and President Biden stood up. He stood up for students, for women’s rights, for labor unions, for access to affordable health care, and for the rights of all Americans to have their votes count to determine the governance ...