Biden Rings In New Year, Says There’s ‘No Quit In America’

WASHINGTON D.C. (CNN) — In a New Year’s Eve connection Friday, President Joe Biden said he’s “more optimistic astir America’s aboriginal than I’ve ever been.”

“We learned again this twelvemonth what we’ve ever known: There’s nary discontinue successful America,” Biden said successful a pre-recorded video airing connected ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rocking Eve with Ryan Seacrest.”

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“No substance however pugnacious the challenge, however precocious the obstacles, we ever overcome. This microorganism has been tough, but we’ve been tougher.”

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Biden, who was joined by First Lady Jill Biden and their caller puppy, Commander, struck an optimistic code entering 2022, observing, “You know, astatine our best, we’ve taken each situation we look and turned it into an accidental to beryllium a stronger and a amended nation.”

The First Lady paid tribute to front-line workers, praising “the dedication shown by the doctors and nurses, educators and parents, archetypal responders and each front-line and indispensable workers,” and paying tribute to members of the subject and their families, “who basal defender implicit our state each implicit the satellite and present astatine home.”

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