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Finance Chair Biden-Harris ‘24. 5 Pres Campaigns. 2X Ambassador. 🇩🇰❤️ Here for the dogs. 🏳️‍🌈❤️ Husband to Stephen & Dad to 🐶🐶

Washington, DC
Joined March 2009
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Rufus Gifford
2 years
My amazing niece and goddaughter Avery has struggled with a stutter much of her life. She was just told by a guy who knows a little something about it that she can be anything she wants to in this world. A day she will never ever forget. Thank you sir. ❤️🇺🇸❤️
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3 years
From @nytimes this morning : “Mr. Trump is the first president since Herbert Hoover to preside over the loss of the White House, the House and the Senate in a single term”
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4 years
Ignore the polls and fight like hell as if we're ten points behind. 🇺🇸
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3 years
This week I hugged my (fully vaccinated) Mom and Dad for the first time in a year. And I’ll never take that for granted again. ❤️
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3 years
306 my friends. It's official. 🇺🇸
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BREAKING: Joe Biden will win the state of Georgia, Edison projects.
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To all the journalists calling me tonight asking for off the record comments: I was with him for six hours yesterday. Hundreds of people. Dozens of questions across the political spectrum. There is no one I’d rather have in the Oval Office. Yes I’m fired up. 🇺🇸 @JoeBiden ❤️
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Democracy is fragile. So many of us take it for granted. And lovers of democracy only feel one way tonight: Stand unequivocally with Ukraine. 🇺🇦
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4 years
General Kelly. General Mattis. Lt General McMaster. Please. You know the truth. It’s time we heard from you.
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3 years
306 electoral votes 5 million (will be 7+ when all states finish counting) popular vote lead No - literally no - legitimate evidence of fraud This is over. @JoeBiden is the President-Elect and will be our 46th President on January 20th, 2021. 🇺🇸
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3 years
It’s insane that 17 days after we emphatically won an election by (what will be) 7 million votes and 74 electoral votes, after they’ve exhausted legal challenges and found no evidence of fraud, that I still spend 100% of my time ensuring those votes are protected.
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3 years
Again... it’s happening people. 🇺🇸
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2 years
People keep asking me to respond to this from my successor in Denmark. It’s hard to respond to something when literally every word is false. 🇺🇸🇩🇰❤️
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4 years
Day #1 working for the next President @JoeBiden Let's do this. 🇺🇸
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4 years
Polls mean nothing 110 days before an election. Do. Not. Get. Complacent.
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3 years
Tomorrow 538 electors will meet in state capitals across the country. They will confirm what we’ve known for weeks now: @JoeBiden won this election decisively. Not close. Biden: 306 Trump: 232 1/20/2021 here we come. 🇺🇸💪🏻
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Perhaps the most difficult 48 hours of Stephen’s life. Of my life too. It turns out the part of him that I always thought was perfect was not quite. Yesterday, 8 hours of open heart surgery, the doctors of Mass General Hospital performed 5 bypasses & valve repair on his heart
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4 years
We’re going to win
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4 years
Tonight my husband was in tears watching @JoeBiden speak. We came back to the US after our time in Denmark because we needed to do all we could to recapture the soul of our nation. Tonight we know that we can. And will.
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The absurdity of tonight makes me more fired up than ever to do what I do I have been w @JoeBiden in every major US city. I have been with @JoeBiden as he engaged w every world leader There is no one with a firmer grasp on the issues nor greater respect on the world stage 🇺🇸
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Never before in my 16+ year political career have I received more calls/texts/emails from people wanting to give money to the campaign than I have in the last 12 hours. @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris 34 days.
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Sometimes you have a night that you will never ever forget. And sometimes you have a night that makes you crystal clear why you do what you do. Tonight was both for me. 🇺🇸❤️
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4 years
When we elect @JoeBiden in 95 days the world will collectively exhale.
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2 months
Every day is a good day to vote for @JoeBiden 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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3 years
Honored and humbled today. President Biden has nominated me to be his Chief of Protocol with the rank of Ambassador.
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3 years
Trump was sworn in 1440 days ago. He has 21 days left. Three weeks, people. Three weeks until @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris 🇺🇸
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4 years
When someone attacks @JoeBiden on his LGBT record, I get a little fired up. But the community doesn’t buy the attack, because we all know where his heart is. 🏳️‍🌈
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3 years
Serious upset brewing in Georgia.... 🇺🇸
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3 years
A Black man and a Jewish man will soon be representing the state of Georgia in the United States Senate. 🇺🇸❤️
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1 year
A week ago I questioned whether I’d see this sight again. Stephen came home ❤️❤️‍🩹 Many of you have asked how all this happened. Here goes:
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3 years
This election was not close. @JoeBiden has 4.4 mill popular vote lead (will end up 6+ mill when CA/NY/IL finish counting) Our margin in WI/MI/PA is 214k and rising (Trump won the three by 80k in 2016) We flipped 5 states (WI, MI, PA, AZ, GA) + NE-2 That’s a people’s roar.
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3 years
I’m so haunted by Wednesday. They constructed a gallows on the mall and were chanting about executions. Was the plan to follow through? This entire event needs to be investigated like a domestic terror attack.
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4 years
I ❤️ ⁦ @JoeBiden ⁩ ⁦ @KamalaHarris ⁩ volunteers
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2 years
My amazing husband surprised me with framed versions of my oath of office signed by @VP Harris. 🇺🇸❤️
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4 years
Don’t trust the polls. Fight like we’re 10 points down. 30 days. 🇺🇸
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1 year
I had never heard of Andrew Tate before yesterday and I preferred it that way.
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3 years
I couldn’t love a photo any more.
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5 years
I have no words. I’m so sorry Denmark. I’m so sorry Greenland. 🇺🇸🇩🇰🇬🇱
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Actually I do have words: He asked for an invitation from the Queen for a State visit. She invited him. He accepted. They have been expecting him for weeks at the palace. The Danes and Greenlanders dismiss his vanity project. He snubs the entire Kingdom. He is a child. 🇺🇸🇩🇰🇬🇱
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4 years
Never seen anything like this. No expensive photolines, no high dollar dinners, no handshakes at a reception. Just millions of fired up Americans ready to do all they can to elect @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris
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NEWS: @JoeBiden raised $383 million in September, breaking his record-setting haul set a month earlier.
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1 year
I think my Christmas Morning outfit is on point. 🎅🏼🎄💫 And it the perfect opportunity to ønsker alle vores danske venner en glædelig jul 🇩🇰❤️
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Still not a close race. Still absolutely no fraud. @JoeBiden will be sworn in as President on January 20th, 2021. We’ve got work to do. Join us. 🇺🇸
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Two months from today: @JoeBiden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. 🇺🇸
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4 years
Obama chose Biden to be his Running Mate on August 23rd. Everybody calm down.
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1 year
Day 5 in the ICU. I asked if I could bring him anything from home. He asked for his wedding ring because he had to take it off before surgery. Never been happier to bring anyone anything. ❤️❤️
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Denmark just fully closed its border for one month. I know Danes and I know they are as strong and resilient as any people on earth. To all my Danish friends: sending you much love from the other side of the Atlantic. 🇩🇰💪🏻
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I woke up this morning thinking I’d have to shovel out my driveway and front yard before heading to the hospital. I opened the blinds to find it already done overnight by the kindness of strangers who obviously know hard hard this week has been. People are good. So grateful. 🙏
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When I first saw this, I got choked up. And I’m choked up again. Not this time. But soon enough. Thank you so much @PeteButtigieg
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It’s clear that @JoeBiden has hit his stride and it’s a beautiful thing to behold. #CNNTownHall
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“he’s shown no interest in putting in the work... no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves.” - @BarackObama
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Donald J. Trump
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BUT DIDN’T SHE CALL HIM A RACIST??? DIDN’T SHE SAY HE WAS INCOMPETENT???
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A Native American woman will replace an oil and gas lobbyist as the person responsible for America’s public lands. ❤️🇺🇸
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I would welcome a collective press reaction out about a viable Presidential candidate advocating for the destruction of western democracy on par with the collective press freak out two nights ago when the President said the wrong name. Too much to ask?
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Trump: One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, Well, sir, if we don't pay and were attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said.. No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.
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It’s really really time to call Georgia, Arizona and North Carolina. It’s over. 306 Biden - 232 Trump 69 days until @JoeBiden is sworn is as our 46th President! 🇺🇸💪🏻
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Early Christmas present from my former boss. 🇺🇸❤️
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I can’t remember a time when 75% of Americans agreed on anything.
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Josh Dorner
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NEW POLL - Overwhelming bipartisan support for the American Rescue Plan. Support: 75% Oppose: 18% Dem: 90% Support, 5% Oppose GOP: 59% Support, 35% Oppose IND: 71% Support, 20% Oppose
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4 years
Who knew? Trump can draw a crowd bigger than Obama.
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I always knew the Danes were the smartest. 🇩🇰❤️
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YouGov
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Europe wants Joe Biden to win the US election 🇩🇰 - Biden 80% / Trump 6% 🇩🇪 - Biden 71% / Trump 11% 🇪🇸 - Biden 69% / Trump 16% 🇸🇪 - Biden 65% / Trump 18% 🇫🇷 - Biden 64% / Trump 14% 🇬🇧 - Biden 61% / Trump 13% 🇮🇹 - Biden 58% / Trump 20%
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If my experience in the last 5 hours is any indication, people are very very fired up to see @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris take our country back. Ps. I am too 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Stephen captured the moment when they called it for @JoeBiden 🇺🇸
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We’re going to win 🇺🇸
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We’re going to win
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If only 15 year old Rufus could see this... @PeteButtigieg @Chas10Buttigieg
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7 years
If Theresa May loses power tonight, it will be in part due to her perceived cozy relationship with Trump. Europe is revolting against him.
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3 years
I didn’t know photos from a G7 could make me so damn happy. 🇺🇸💪🏻 🇺🇸🇫🇷
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Five years. Through my life I have been able to do things I have never dreamed possible. But there is no greater joy, no greater source of pride, no greater accomplishment than to be able to call myself Stephen DeVincent’s husband. Happy Anniversary to my everything.❤️
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Been fighting for this most of my life. Hard to describe my emotions. 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈
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Rufus Gifford
4 years
26 mill $ raised in 24 hrs That’s right
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How’s your Friday night? Bringing together 2000+ friends to raise 1 mill+ for my new boss @JoeBiden is a pretty damn good Friday night for me. 🇺🇸
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I’ve done four Presidential campaigns. The @BarackObama campaigns changed my life. But with the stakes as high as they are, I have never been as emotional as I am tonight as we celebrate electing @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris 🇺🇸❤️
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More than 6,200.
@ShaneGoldmacher
Shane Goldmacher
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NEWS: More than 120,000 people have already paid to attend today’s Biden-Obama virtual fund-raiser, raising $4 million+ for the campaign — a huge sum for an online event. My piece on Biden's emergence as a financial force in his own right in 2020 —>
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... And the world collectively exhales. We're back. 🇺🇸
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The first thing Stephen said when he saw me for the first time after open heart surgery was telling me he loved me while squeezing my hand with tears in his eyes. The second was “Don’t forget to water the plants.” He’s back. ❤️ And of course I had forgotten to water the plants
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I’m so sorry Denmark. Truth and decency will be back again in 70 days. 🇺🇸🇩🇰
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3 years
Who knew how much the world could change for the better in just 100 days... Thank you @POTUS @JoeBiden 🇺🇸
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3 years
The days are getting longer. @JoeBiden will be President in 29 days. 🥳🥳
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It was an absolute honor to have you here President Zelenskyy. 🇺🇸🇺🇦
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4 years
Let me know if you were “deeply disappointed” or “demoralized” by the Obama Presidency. Because I never was. I guess @BernieSanders was.
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Steve Schale
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Good reminder that Sen Sanders thought someone - maybe even him - should have run against President Obama in 2012 in the Democratic primary- a move that history says would have guaranteed a GOP win.
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Aaaand.... our online store crashed. Good problems.
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2 years
Voters in Denmark head to the polls tomorrow to elect a Prime Minister. There are 14 (!!) parties fighting for votes. The party leaders represented at the final debate tonight. Quite a difference from our system. May democracy thrive tomorrow… 🇩🇰
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So to sum up: He asks for an invitation from a great friend and ally. The Queen obliges invites him for a State visit. He declares the visit contingent on the great friend selling part of it’s territory to him This. Is. Not. Normal.
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🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰❗️❗️❗️ And guess where I’ll be next Saturday for the quarterfinals? Copenhagen!
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Running into Danes I have never met on the street in DC is kinda my favorite thing. Jeg savne jer Danmark. God påske til jer 🇺🇸🇩🇰🐣🐰 (And you all better stop me and say hi if you see me on the street cuz it makes my day)
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Just hours before his open heart surgery when I was still on my way back to Mass from DC to be with him, Stephen realized there was no Coke Zero in the house (I drink it, he doesn’t). He walked to CVS to make sure I had it before I got home. 😭
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We must never let their behavior be normalized. Stay outraged. 70 days. 🇺🇸
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Rufus Gifford
4 years
This is Democrats’ biggest dream come true. @JoeBiden beats Trump head to head in TEXAS. Game. Set. Match. Now we gotta make sure he get the nomination cuz no other candidate wins.
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Political Polls
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#Texas CNN/SSRS, General Election Poll: Biden 48 (+1) Trump 47 Trump 47 Warren 47 Trump 47 (+1) Bloomberg 46 Trump 48 (+1) Buttigieg 47 Trump 48 (+2) Sanders 46 Trump 48 (+3) Klobuchar 45 …
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No matter what happens in Georgia tonight, @JoeBiden will be our President and @KamalaHarris will be our Vice President 15 days from right now. 🇺🇸
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4 years
Tomorrow morning @JoeBiden will deliver remarks in Philadelphia. Finally we get to hear from a President.
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Dance moves notwithstanding, someone has got to tell the Republicans what these lyrics mean.
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4 years
Watching @JoeBiden actually makes me a bit emotional because I can’t tell you how much I miss mature, steady leadership. We need him to be our President and his performance tonight is an exclamation point.
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2 years
One year ago today… the moment the election was called for @POTUS @JoeBiden 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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4 years
“But I would like equal time” - @KamalaHarris Cut. Off. His. Mic.
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Rufus Gifford
4 years
Dear friends, Whoever you supported before tonight, if you are now interested in trying to elect @JoeBiden President, please DM me. I will try to point you in the right direction. We will win this but we need all hands on deck for the next few weeks.
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🇩🇰❤️🇩🇰❤️🇩🇰❤️
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Rufus Gifford
3 years
This is the very first photo of me and Stephen together. 11 years ago. One of Stephen and my first dates was a holiday party at VP ⁦ @JoeBiden ⁩ and ⁦ @DrBiden ⁩ ‘s residence. Yes, I was trying to impress a guy I like A LOT. What a journey. #Thankful 🇺🇸🦃🍁❤️
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Godt nytår danske venner! Skål til 2020! 🇺🇸🇩🇰🥂🎉💪🏼
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I’ve spent the last three days on the phone with supporters of @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris Suffice it to say people are angry and fired up. And I count myself as one of them. 🇺🇸💪🏼
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Glædelig jul til vores danske venner! 🎄🎅🏼🇺🇸🇩🇰
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