Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden greets the crowd Saturday after his address to the nation from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware. In his speech, he said: We must make the promise of the country real for everybody — no matter their race, their ethnicity, their faith, their identity or their disability." On Saturday night and through Sunday morning, President-elect Joe Biden was praised by members and advocates of the disabled community who celebrated the reference to “disability” in his victory speech. Many observers noted it was their first time hearing a president reference the disabled community so specifically, and many credited Biden’s national disability engagement director, Molly Doris-Pierce, for emphasizing the community’s needs to the campaign. “But the disabled community heard it.

Source: Huffington Post November 08, 2020 19:18 UTC