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Information from the annual Who Need Us
US conference, where the President of the

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United States of America, Joe Biden
was expected to deliver a speech as part

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of his complaints to win voters ahead
of the fourth coming election, indicated that

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the President has tested positive to COVID
following his compaignts earlier in the day at

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Nevada. A video of the announcement
was made available through the live broadcast on

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First Book Pledge of President Joe Biden. WOUNDSLAS have moved up to the events

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to cover and broadcast the expected President’s
speech L two First Book from the venue

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in Las Vegas. Who Need Us
You as President and CEO. Janet Mombo

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took to the podium on Wednesday,
saying Biden spoke with her on the full

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apologizing for not being able to make
it. Thank you all so much for

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your patients and understandingly great. I
was just on the phone call with President

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Bibey and he shared his deep disappointment
at not being able to join us this

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afternoon. The President’s been at many
events, as we all know, and

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he just tested positive for COVID,
said Janet more Ware. The eighty one

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year old was expected to speak to
a roomful of his planic voters in the

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swing states ahead of the November election, in which he will contend with the

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former President of the USA, Donald
Trump, who earlier in the weeklyas How

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We Escaped that after a gunman show
at him smally while on stage companion at

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Butler, Pennsylvania, the former president
sustained injuries from one of his airsheit by

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the bullets. Officials at the White
House have centered that Biden is experiencing mild

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symptoms. They also added that the
President is vacinated and boosted. Earlier today,

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following his first events in Las Vegas, President Barnen Tester positive for COVID

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nineteen. He is vacinated and boosted, and he is experiencing mild symptoms.

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He will be returning to Delaware,
where he will serve isolate and will continue

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to carry out all of his duties
fully. During that time. The White

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House will provide regular offerts on the
President’s startles as he continues to carry out

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the full duties of the office while
in isolation. Moga told the guests that

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the President has sent his regrets,
so of course we understand that he needs

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to take the precautions that have been
recommended. He did not put anybody at

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risk. He said to tell my
faults, said, we’re not going to

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get rid of them that quickly.
We’re going to have a chance to hear

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from him in the future. Directly, he’s just really sorry he couldn’t be

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with us, and obviously we shared
that disappointment, but we’ve seen how common

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is still have many communities do,
and we understand up that’s all of us.

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M good afternoon. Thank you all
so much for your patience and understanding.

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Regrettably, I was just on the
phone with President Biden and he shared

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his deep disappointment at not being able
to join us this afternoon. The President

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has been at many events, as
we all know, and he just tested

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positive for COVID, so of course
we understand that he needs to take the

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precautions that have been recommended, and
he did not obviously want to put anybody

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at risk. He said to tell
my folks that we’re not going to get

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rid of him that quickly. We’re
going to have a chance to hear from

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him in the future. Directly,
he’s just really sorry he couldn’t be with

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us, and obviously we share that
disappointment, but we’ve seen how COVID has

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still impacted many in our community still, and we understand that he needs to

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take the steps he needs to take
to not just protect himself, but to

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protect all of us. So we
appreciate, we appreciate very much his wanting

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to have been here. I had
a great introduction for him, reminding us

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of all the actions is that he’s
taken on behalf of our community and the

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way that they have helped advance our
interests and status, and well, we’re

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just disappointed we won’t hear from him
directly today, but we as a Latino

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community know how to move on,
and we’re gonna recapture our program, and

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we’ve got an incredible plenary planned around
housing and home ownership. I hope you’ll

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take advantage of being able to go
to that plenary. And then of course

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we’ve got a wonderful gala this evening
planned with some incredible honorees that will be

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presenting awards to and so again,
it’s been a wonderful conference. Really appreciate

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everyone’s patience and understanding, and I
am deeply honored that the President did call

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me himself. I know it was
really important for him to relate his disappointment,

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but we’ll move on and we’ll have
a great rest of the conference,

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and we’re going to make sure we
continue to mobilize and engage our community in

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the weeks and months ahead to understand
how important these elections are. As Gras

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Yes in a Montag’s out, Maddy