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“For too long parents have had this impossible choice between giving in and getting their child an addictive device or seeing their child isolated and feeling left out socially,” Ms Friedlander says.

Biden's statement hit similar notes to Harris' concession speech, in which she urged Democrats to keep fighting and avoid giving in to despair.

His caucus was ready to pass the bill at the end of session, he said, and he initially refused to participate in a special session before giving in to the governor’s demands.

The letter was delivered to Mr Holland in time for a talk he was giving in his home city about his new book on the war's Italian campaign, Cassino ’44.

"So maybe she absorbed that fear that if you reform, you will eventually end giving in to the opposition," she added.