Subject: For approval: Weekend Bidens
From: "Reid, Jessalyn" <[email-masked]>
To: EMail-Vetting_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 13:56:18 -0700

Hi pals — three of these to send from the VP this weekend. Please let us know any flags. Thanks!

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Sender: Joe Biden
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Friend –

Yesterday was Earth Day -- a day when folks across the world celebrate our beautiful planet, which is a lovely thing.

But NAME, if we want to secure a safer future and a healthy planet for generations to come, then we have a fight against climate change that we must win.

<LINK>To do that, we need friends and supporters in Congress and a leader in the White House who understand climate change's very real presence and its detrimental effects.</LINK>

Whether it’s due to political expediency or just plain pigheadedness, the GOP continues to ignore the realities that scientists have proven to us time and time again: Climate change is here, and it has real consequences -- not just here in America but across the world.

We can’t stand for that. And this November, we have a chance to replace those Republicans with Democrats who will support the fight against climate change. Say you’re in to make sure they’re elected up and down the ballot all across our country:

LINK

Thanks for this, NAME.

Joe

—v2(EJB)—
Sender: Joe Biden
Subject:

Friend --

Yesterday, we celebrated Earth Day, our annual reminder that we’ve been blessed with some amazing natural gifts and it’s our job to be good stewards of them. That’s always been something that Barack and I have tried to do.

Every aspect of our country’s self-interest, from foreign policy to economic policy, even health care policy, is impacted by our environmental policy. Barack knew from day one that issues relating to climate were not a problem for another generation. They couldn’t be left out of the conversation and we couldn’t delay. So this administration has taken decisive action, including the historic global agreement the President spearheaded earlier this year.

I feel confident about the steps we’ve taken to leave a planet to my grandchildren and their grandchildren that’s better off than we found it, but our work’s not done yet. It’s up to us to elect leaders in November who understand that the stakes for our planet are literally life or death. Add your name if you’re as committed as I am to making sure we keep moving in the right direction:

LINK

Thanks for being with us on this, NAME. It takes each and everyone of us to accomplish the big things like this, and I’m so glad you’re on our team.

Joe

—v3(JGR)—
Sender: Joe Biden
Subject:

Friend --

A few months back, I joked to some of my fellow Democrats that the Republicans presidential race was a "gift from the Lord" -- that with this outrageous slate of candidates, these guys just don't stand a chance at winning the White House in November.

Now, I stand by that -- when the majority of the American people believe that abortion should continue to be a legal health care procedure, that climate change is real (and that humans contribute to it), and that we need to do more to prevent senseless gun violence, no candidate who is running on an anti-choice, anti-woman, climate-denying, anti-gun-control platform is going to get too far with voters.

But NAME, just because GOP values are out of step with those of the American people doesn't mean Democrats are going to have an easy go of it in this election. Let's not forget, Republicans have got special interest backers like the Koch brothers behind them and an effectively bottomless bank account to push their agendas nonstop until November 8th.

So it's up to folks like us -- Democrats who believe that this country is better off when we're together, rather than divided -- to make sure these GOP guys don't get a chance to roll back that all the work you, Barack, and I have done together over the past seven years.

NAME, add your name right now to say you're ready to do whatever it takes to keep a Republican out of the White House this fall:

LINK

Thanks -- it means a lot to know you're in this with me.

Joe

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Jessalyn Reid
Deputy Email Director
Democratic National Committee
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