How a Biden win can sink one of McConnell’s top priorities – Wertheimer op-ed in CNN

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An op-ed by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer entitled, “How a Biden win can sink one of McConnell’s top priorities,” which was published by CNN on August 31, 2020.

According to the piece:

Joe Biden’s acceptance of the Democratic nomination for President has brought him closer to accomplishing a mission he started 47 years ago: to create a system of public financing for presidential and congressional elections. […]

In his 1973 Senate testimony, Biden said that if he accomplishes nothing else in his Senate term except to “make some little impact on moving us toward the public financing of elections, I would consider my stint in the Senate a success.”

His moment has arrived. A President Biden could make public financing of elections happen early next year — and end the quest he began almost five decades ago.

Read the full piece here.

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