Laphonza Butler: ‘The Vice President Put Forth an Ambitious Vision for Our Country’

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CAPEHART: “Let’s stop talking about him and let’s talk about the vice president, who, yesterday, talked to the American people, just a piece of her economic plan, how she wants to lower costs for Americans. There are folks that are praising the housing policy, but it seems like everybody is slamming the price gouging policy. Give me your reaction to what the vice president has proposed.”
BUTLER: “Look, I watched yesterday, the vice president put forth an ambitious vision for our country, an ambition to build an economy of opportunity, tackling key economic drivers, that working families are facing every single day, they bring tough choices. The rising cost of healthcare. The rising cost of food and basic needs, and let alone, the rising cost of housing, where so many working Americans are finding themselves having to live in their cars, not being able to afford an apartment or suitable place for them and their families. Yes, she set forth an ambitious agenda, but we also know that in this candidate, and in the vice president’s vision for this country, she sees and hears everyone. These are issues that are not just driving hard choices for Democrats. They are also driving hard choices for Republicans who live in Ohio, for Republicans who live in Arizona and Michigan, and Wisconsin, and what she is presenting is a plan for how we can tackle those very issues that are bringing about hard choices for American working families. She wants to make a signature of her presidency, rising, and creating a stronger middle-class. I think Americans across the country, Democrat, Republican, independent, will celebrate a leader who sees an opportunity to address real problems and has the ambition to try to do something about it.”