Biden nabs endorsement of prominent black lawmaker John Lewis

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6. :) Well, that's a surprise. Advanced pancreatic cancer is

a grim business, though. Rep. Lewis says he'll campaign aggressively to elect his friend Joe Biden, "travel around America to support him." I hope the traveling is from the comfort of this big man's own home, but we know he'll do what he decides he needs to. There's nothing more important.

NYT: “I know what it is to campaign hard and to work hard,” Mr. Lewis said, acknowledging that he faced some “problems now, but they will not be with me forever.” “And I will be out there working and campaigning for Joe Biden as president of the United States of America.” ...

“If we fail to vote, we don’t count,” he said. But he also expressed concern about voting against the backdrop of a pandemic, in a nation that has struggled with voter suppression, saying that he worried about whether the country would have a “free” election.

“I just hope that, in spite of whatever is going on now, that people will not be afraid to come out and vote,” he said. “We have to vote.”