Melinda French Gates endorsed President Joe Biden for November’s US election.

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American philanthropist Melinda French Gates, the ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Invoice Gates, endorsed President Joe Biden on Thursday for November’s US election, arguing that he’s one of the best candidate for ladies.

“I’ve by no means endorsed a presidential candidate earlier than. However this yr’s election stands to be so enormously consequential for ladies and households that, this time, I can not keep quiet,” she stated on X.

“Ladies deserve a frontrunner who cares in regards to the points they face and is dedicated to defending their security, their well being, their financial energy, their reproductive rights, and their means to freely and totally take part in a functioning democracy.”

French Gates, who lately stepped down as president of the Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis, stated the distinction between Biden and his Republican opponent Donald Trump “could not be higher, and the stakes could not be increased.” 

“I will probably be voting for President Biden,” she concluded.

Reproductive rights have been an efficient political cudgel for Democrats within the two years for the reason that conservative-leaning Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 determination that made abortion a constitutionally protected proper. 

A cushty majority of Individuals suppose abortion must be authorized typically, in keeping with intensive polling, and round half of states have measures in place to guard entry.

The difficulty has been a significant theme of the election marketing campaign, with Biden supporting girls’s proper to decide on and Trump failing to stake out a clear-cut place past satisfaction in appointing three of the justices who struck down Roe v Wade.

French Gates introduced in Might that she could be utilizing her $12.5 billion fortune to assist “girls and households,” making a primary fee of $1 billion  towards the trigger. 

She stated the Supreme Court docket ruling on abortion had prompted her to dedicate herself to defending girls’s rights.

Former New York mayor and businessman Mike Bloomberg additionally stated on Thursday he was endorsing Biden and had donated $19 million to his marketing campaign, in keeping with the Washington Submit.

Trump, in the meantime, acquired high-profile assist from investor twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who introduced that they had every donated $1 million towards the Republican candidate’s election bid.

And businessman Timothy Mellon contributed $50 million to a Trump-supporting tremendous PAC — a company that swimming pools marketing campaign contributions, in keeping with a New York Instances report on Thursday.

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