Remember who was the very first Republican president and everything he stood for?

Here's a reminder from his speech in November of 1863.

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. 

We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. 

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. 

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. 

The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. 

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. 

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”*

Today, we are gathered on a different battlefield of a war of conscience- for liberty or of tyranny, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can endure.

Will we honor those that gave the last full measure of devotion, and resolve that those that have fought for and died for freedom in two world wars and conflicts shall not have died in vain?

That this nation, under God, shall have that renewed birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth?*

Will we save and preserve this democratic nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal for our children and future generations?

We can by voting for V.P. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, patriots dedicated to defending freedom and democracy and serving the people. 

*Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863. 

**Paraphrased from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.