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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 South Shore Democratic Board Member and 913 Precinct Captain, Donald Hampton and 933 Precinct Captain, Joyce Hamilton attend Seniors for Biden-Harris Launch in Wimauma, FL.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hillsborough County Democrats, State Representatives Dianne Hart<\/strong> and Susan Vald\u00e9s,<\/strong> and South Shore Democratic Club President Fran Bodman,<\/strong> held a phone banking, postcard writing, and voter engagement event to kickoff\u00a0Seniors for Biden-Harris\u00a0<\/em>in Florida \u2014 a national organizing coalition to mobilize key communities around what\u2019s at stake for American seniors in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The speakers highlighted the contrast between the Biden-Harris<\/strong> administration\u2019s work to protect American seniors \u2014 including reducing the cost of prescription drugs, capping the price of insulin at $35 for seniors and strengthening Social Security and Medicare \u2014 with Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong> plans to raise costs for seniors.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trump<\/strong> recently said\u00a0he\u2019d cut<\/a><\/u><\/strong>\u00a0Social Security and Medicare,\u00a0floated<\/a>\u00a0cutting retirement benefits, would repeal President Biden\u2019s<\/strong>caps on the price of prescription drugs, and wants to terminate the ACA, which would raise costs for countless Florida seniors. In Florida, over 4 million seniors rely on Medicare and Social Security for their health and financial security.\u00a0 Following Trump\u2019s<\/strong> lead, state-level Republican initiatives have sought to weaken health care coverage and promote junk insurance plans, further endangering the wellbeing of Floridians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 South Shore Democratic Board Member and 913 Precinct Captain, Donald Hampton and 933 Precinct Captain, Joyce Hamilton attend Seniors for Biden-Harris Launch in Wimauma, FL. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hillsborough County Democrats, State Representatives Dianne Hart and Susan Vald\u00e9s, and South Shore Democratic Club President Fran Bodman, held a phone banking, postcard writing, and voter engagement event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134449,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134445\/revisions\/134449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}