That is the kind of person Joe Biden is. He hugs back. He offers comfort. He gives support.
We are a country in need of healing. We need an empathic leader who leans into a hug. We need a leader who offers encouragement. We need a leader who gives love as easily as breathing in.
Here is the family talking about Biden and what that meant to them:
As a nation, we need comfort, and Joe Biden gives comfort extremely well. It is part of his empathic nature and comes from a lifetime of learning from difficulty.
What’s more, Biden’s empathy shapes how he governs — and how he asks his staff to govern.
AP’s Josh Boak talks about how Biden leads his team to take a caring approach:
Biden tries to put himself in the scuffed shoes of a worker and asks Ivy League-educated aides to do the same. He repeatedly tells them that real people must be able to easily apply for the government resources being created for them.
When Gene Sperling took on the role of overseeing the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief programs in 2021, the president gave him direct instructions.
“When you are guiding implementation of these programs, I want you every time to imagine a couple of parents coming home from a 10-hour shift, trying to make dinner and help a child with homework,” Sperling said Biden told him.
That meant helping in personal ways as well as with broad steps. Sperling worked with Treasury and the IRS to ensure that the child tax credit’s monthly payments arrived on the same day each month. He told the team it was something of a victory if someone complained on Facebook or Twitter that their payment was late, since it meant people knew about the program and valued it.
Joe Biden is a great president.
Is there still more work to be done? 100%! Lots more work. But Biden dhas done so much more than many people guessed could be done. He deserves a lot of credit. AND he deserves to be re-elected.
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