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Asked how America’s foreign allies should respond to questions about the security of American democracy given the ongoing assault on the 2020 elections by Republicans and how that’s impacting the US response to the coronavirus, President Joe Biden pointed to his leadership and the spirit of the overwhelming number of Americans.

“The leadership of the Republican Party is fractured, and the Trump wing of the Party is the majority of the party, but it makes up a significant minority of the American people.

“I believe that by us standing up and saying what we believe to be the case and not engaging in the overwhelming hyperbole that gets engaged in by so many today that we, um–I guess it’s that old expression that the proof of the pudding is in the eating–when I said that I was going to deal with beating the virus, I was going to focus on that, and I was going to get millions of shots in people’s arms, it wasn’t me.

“I just knew the American people.  I knew the kind of help I’d get from the Defense Department, from police departments, from hospitals, from… from retired docs, I just knew.  And look how rapidly we moved.  And now we have a group of people–everything from the political rejection of a notion of taking a vaccine to people who are simply afraid of a needle, and everything in between.  We have a way to go.  But I never doubted that we would be able to generate the kind of support we got and get so many millions of people step up and get vaccinated.”