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Joe Biden’s victory speech on Saturday night was written by well-known historian Jon Meacham, according to the New York Times.
The Times reports:
Jon Meacham, the presidential historian and biographer, has been helping to craft President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr.’s speeches, according to multiple sources involved, including writing the acceptance speech that Mr. Biden that he delivered Saturday night from Wilmington.
In that address, Mr. Biden spoke of a mission ‘to rebuild the soul of America, to rebuild the backbone of this nation, the middle class and to make America respected around the world again.’ Mr. Meacham’s 2018 book, ‘The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels,’ has long served as a touchstone for Mr. Biden, who read it and has reached out to Mr. Meacham in the past to discuss passages he liked.
In his Fox News Radio interview, Lindsey Graham also indicated Republicans would be targeting voting by mail in the months to come, after mail-in ballots helped Joe Biden carry key swing states.
“If we keep the Senate, we need to do a joint committee in the Senate to analyze mail-in balloting and how it worked in 2020,” the Republican senator said.
