Hello, hello. Thanks for being here. I wish we were able to talk to folks outside, but we are keeping our social distancing and playing by the rules. Good afternoon, everyone. This is ano kamala, exciting day. This is a great day for our campaign and a great game for great day for america, in our view. I have had the incredible privilege with meeting and spending time with a talented group of women leaders, all of whom are qualified to be president. With each one, the more i learn about them, the more i talk to them, the more impressed i was, even though i knew that before. I want to thank each and everyone of them for being part of this process and i look forward to working with them as we rebuild this country, to get elected and once we are elected, god willing. I approach this with a seriousness, a purpose and a mind, because this is a serious moment for our nation. We are at one of those inflection points you have heard me say that before in our history. A lifechanging election for this nation. Choice we makehe this november is going to decide the future of america for a very, very long time. And i had a great choice, great opportunities. I had a great choice, but i have no doubt that i picked the right nextn to join me as the Vice President of the United States of america, and thats senator Kamala Harris. It seems that americans all across this nation, at least at the outset here, agree with me. Yesterday we had our best grassroots fundraising day of the campaign, more than double our previous record, and in doing so we set a single day record for online political fundraising. I think i know i. Why. Know i hope youll join us as well, those who listen today. Om today. Biden. C five dollars, 10, whatever. Kamala is smart, she is tough, experienced. Fighter for the backbone of this country, the middle class. Are all those struggling to get into the middle class, kamala knows how to govern. She knows how to make the hard calls. She is ready to do this job on day one. We are both ready to get to work rebuilding this nation and building it better. As attorney general of the largest state in the country, kamala took on the big banks over mortgage fraud and won. Wanted tog oil, who pollute without consequences. She is a pioneer in Marriage Equality and tackled the gun lobby. You know, weve all watched the United States senate go toe to toe with trump officials, trying to hide the truth, asking the tough questions that need to be but as a not , member of the Intelligence Committee and the judiciary committee, she has been the senator in the middle of the most massive security challenges our country faces. Of allare, well aware the threats to this nation and ready to respond to them. As a child of immigrants, she knows personally how immigrant families enrich our country, as well as the challenges of what it means to grow up black and indianamerican in the United States and the america in the United States of america. Her story is different from mine and many particulars, but not so different in the essentials. She has worked hard, she has never backed down from a challenge, and she has earned each and every of the accolades and achievements that she has many of them often in the face of obstacles that others put in her way, but never quit. This morning, all across the nation, little girls woke up, especially little black and brown girls, who so often feel inrlooked and undervalued their communities, but today today, just maybe, they are seeing themselves for the first time in a new way, as the stuff of president s and Vice President s. In her campaign in the primary, kamala often talked about the 3 00 a. M. Agenda, the moms and dads awake late at night in their kitchens, worried, scared, uncertain about how they were going to take care of their families, about how they were going to pay the bills, about how they were going to simply make it. Growing up in scranton in saw that delaware, i struggle with my family as well as he kamala saw it with hers as well. Millions of americans are living that struggle as we speak, especially in this moment of crisis. Especially with so many jobs lost. Kamala and i both know just give me a shot, a fair shot. A shot at making it. It will be the work of our administration to make sure they get a fair shot. Working families need someone on their side in this nation, because they do not have anyone in the president now on their side. That is going to change in a biden harris administration. It is going to be gratifying to see the strong, enthusiastic reaction to senator harris as our next Vice President. Peoplew, it comes from all over the country. It is already occurring. All over the country, all ideological views, all backgrounds. , we are predictable and some of them. It comes from all other except for Donald Trumps white house and his allies. We all knew it was coming. You could have set your watch is to it. Donald trump has already started his attacks, calling kamala nasty, whining about she is mean to her appointees. It is no surprise, because whining is what donald trump does best, better than any american president in history. Is anyone surprised donald trump as a problem with a strong woman or women across the board . Lets be clear. Personare a working worried about whether you will have a job to go to, whether or not you will be able to pay your mortgage, your rent, worried about the poison in the air you breathe, the water you drink, worried about your civil rights, your rights to basic dignity, which is under attack by this harristration, kamala has had your back, and now we have to have her back. She is going to stand with me in this campaign, and all of us are going to stand up for her. We willry 20, 2021, watch senator harris raise her right hand and swear the oath of office as the first woman ever to serve as the Second Highest Office in america, in this land. And then we will get to work fixing the mess that president and Vice President pence have created, both at home and abroad through four years of mismanagement and modeling of terrorists and thugs around the world. Not only will america dig itself out of his hold a put us in, we will build back. We will build back better. We have a Public Health crisis. Court rris is in donald is in court trying to do away with health care. I 165,000 people dead and climbing as a consequence of months9, and still later, no real leadership or plan from the president of the United States, how to get this pandemic under control. No real help for the states and local governments trying to fill the vacuum of leadership from the white house. For children and educators or Small Businesses and frontline workers holding our country together. Instead, he is issuing executive orders and making promises that in the end will defund the Social Security system while insisting that this virus will disappear. Harris biden kamala administration will have a comprehensive plan to meet the challenge of covid19 and turned the corner on this pandemic. Masking, clear sciencebased guidance, dramatically scaling up testing, getting states and local governments the resources they need to open schools and businesses safely. We can do this. We just need a president and Vice President willing to lead and take responsibility. Not as this president says, it is not my fault. The governors should thank me more. As the old saying goes, give me a break. We have an economic crisis. ,ore than 16 million americans 16 million still out of work. Track toump is on break another record, on track to leave office with the worst jobs record of any american president in modern history, but instead of doing the hard work, meeting facetoface with congressional leaders, democrats and republicans in the white house like every other president has done in a crisis to get americans the relief they need and deserve, donald trump is on the golf course. If i told you this three years ago, you would look at me like i was being crazy. He has not even met with the leadership. She does not have time, it appears. Crisis, andimate donald trump refuses to even acknowledge. When he thinks about Climate Change, all we hear is the word hoax. A Bidenharris Administration will meet the climate crisis, protect the health of the American Public and along the way, we will deliver one word, jobs. Good paying jobs. We have a Racial Justice crisis. Donald trump seeks only to inflame it with this politics of racist rhetoric and appeals to. He vision today is not only the day i am proud to introduce senator Kamala Harris as the Vice President ial nominee of the party, it is also the third anniversary of that terrible day in charlottesville, remember . Remember what it felt like to see those neonazis and those klansmen, White Supremacists coming out of fields carrying lighted torches, faces contorted, bulging veins, pouring into the streets of historic American Cities spewing the same antisemitic bio we heard in hitlers germany in the 1930s. Remember what it felt to see a violent clash ensue between those celebrating hate and those standing against it . Call for all of , a callcountry, for me to action. My father used to say at silence original toy, not him, but he believed it. I knew i could not stand by and let donald trump, a man who went on to say when asked about what he thought he said there were very fine people on both sides, very fine people on both sides. No president of the United States of america has ever said anything like that. You see him continue to attack everything that makes america america. I knew we were in the battle for the soul of the nation. That is why i decided to run. I am proud now to have senator harris at my side in that battle , because she shares the same intensity i do. She is someone who knows what is at stake. The question is for all americans to answer, who are we as a nation . What do we stand for . And most importantly, what do we want to be . Knows thatomeone who the future of this country is limited only by the barriers we place on our own imaginations because there is nothing americans cannot achieve when we put our minds to it and we do it together. Chose the reasons i kamala as we both believe we can divide america simply in one word, possibilities. Possibilities. Let me say it again. Possibilities, that is america. That is what sets this nation everyone,hat everyone, the ability for everyone, and we mean everyone to go as far a dream as big as hard work and their godgiven ability will take them. When i agreed to serve as president obamas running mate, he asked me a number of questions that i asked kamala. The most important to me, he asked what i wanted, most importantly . I told him i wanted to be the last person in the room before he made important decisions. Hat is what i asked kamala i asked her to be the last voice of the room, to always tell me the truth, and she will. Challenge my assumptions if she disagrees. Ask the hard questions. That is the way we make the best decisions for the american people. To spend some time at my home today with kamala and doug, and i want to thank them and thank them publicly for agreeing to join and take this journey with jill and me. Doug, you will have to learn what it means to be a barrier breaker yourself in this job you are about to take on. Gentlemanfirst second , and although they are not here with us today, i want to thank ellen and coal as well. I had a chance to speak to and we areand dad, going to get our kids together to let them know what is coming. My grandchildren are about the age of their children. I got to speak to them. My campaign has always been a family affair, every campaign i have run, so i have got some news for you. Bidens. All honorary here is the best part. You have been an honorary bidens for quite some time. I came first to know who kamala through our son beau biden. They were friends. They served as attorneys general at the same time. Th took on the same big fights together. In california, bo in delaware. Big fights that help change the entire country. I know how much beau respected kamala and her work. That meant a lot to me as i made this decision. Now we need to get to work pulling this nation out of these crises we find ourselves in. Ending our economy back on track, uniting this nation, and winning the battle for the soul of america. My fellow americans, let me introduce to you for the first time your next Vice President of harristed states, kamala. The floor is yours. Sen. Harris thank you, joe. Thank you, joe. Me, iaid when you called am incredibly honored by this responsibility and i am ready to get to work. I am ready to get to work. After the most competitive primary in history, the country received a resounding message that joe was the person to lead us forward, and i am so proud to stand with you, and i do so mindful of all of the heroic and whoseous women before me sacrifice, determination, and resilience makes my presence here today even possible. This is a moment of real consequence for america. Everything we care about, our economy, our health, our children, the kind of country we live in, it is all on the line. Reallyreally reeling from the worst Public Health crisis in a century. At the president s mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the great depression, and we are experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscience to the streets of our country demanding change. America is crying out for leadership, yet we have a president who cares more about himself than the people who elected him, a president who is making every challenge we face even more difficult to solve, but here is the good news. We do not have to accept the failed government of donald trump and mike pence. In just 83 days, we have a chance to choose a Better Future for our country. Biden, thank you for the trust you have placed in me. Jill, i know you will be an incredible first lady, and my husband doug and i are so grateful, grateful to become a part of your extended family. Ever since i received jos call, i have been thinking, yes, about the first biden i really came to jos and that of course is beloved son beau. In the midst of the great spoke on, beau and i the phone sometimes multiple times a day working together to win back billions of dollars for homeowners from the big banks of the nation that were foreclosing on peoples homes, and let me , il you about beau biden learned quickly that beau was the kind of guy who inspired people to be a better version of themselves. He really was the best of us. Did i would ask him, where you get that . Where did this come from . He would always talk about his dad. And i will tell you the love that they shared was incredible to watch. It was the most beautiful display of the love between a father and a son. And beau talked about how joe would spend every day writing the rails from wilmington to washington, d. C. So he could make breakfast for his kids in the morning and make it home in time to tuck them in bed each night. All of this so two little boys i just lost their mom and sister in a tragic accident would know that the world was still turning, and that is how i came to know joe. He is someone whose First Response when things get tough is never to think about himself, but to care for everyone else. He is someone who never asked, why is this happening to me, and instead asks, what can i do to make life better for you . Computer his empathy, and his compassion, and his sense of duty to care for others is why i am so proud to be on this ticket. Cut from, yes, we are the same cloth. I cannot wait for america to get to know my husband doug and our amazing kids, because whether i am cheering in the bleachers at a swim meet were setting up a college room door or helping my goddaughter prepare for my school for her School Debate or building legos with my godson or hugging my two baby nieces or cooking dinner, sunday dinner, my family means everything to me. I have had a lot of titles over my career, and certainly Vice President will be great, but mama will always be the one that means the most. My mother and father, they came from opposite sides of the world to arrive in america. One from india, and the other from jamaica in search of a worldclass education, but what brought them together was the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and that is how they met, as students in the streets of oakland marching and shouting for this thing called justice and a struggle that continues today. I was part of it. My parents would bring me to protests strapped tightly in my stroller, and my mother raised to believeaia and me it was up to us and every generation of americans to keep on marching. She would tell us, do not sit around and complain about things, do something. So i did something. Realoted my life to making the words carved in the United StatesSupreme Court equal justice under law. Add 30 years ago, i stood before a judge for the first time, breathed deep and uttered the phrase that would truly guide my career and the rest of my career, Kamala Harris for the people. The people, that is who i have represented as District Attorney fighting on behalf of victims who needed help, the people. That is who i vote for is californias attorney general when i took on Transnational Criminal Organizations to traffic and guns and drugs and human beings. It is the people who lift have fought for as a United States senator, where i have worked every day to hold officials accountable to the american people. And the people are who joe and i will fight for every day in the white house. Let me tell you. As somebody who has presented my fair share of arguments in court, the case against donald trump and mike pence is open and shut. Just look at they have gotten us. More than 16 million out of work , millions of kids who cannot go back to school, a crisis of property, homelessness inflicting black, brown and Indigenous People of the most. A crisis of hunger inflicting one in a five mothers who have childrens who are hungry, and tragically, more than a 165,000 lives that have been cut short. Many with loved ones who never got the chance to say goodbye. It did not have to be this way. Six years ago, we had a Different Health crisis. It was ebola, and we all remember that pandemic. You know what happened then . Barack obama and joe biden did their jobs. Only two people in the united. Tates die, two that is what is called leadership. Compare that to the moment we find ourselves in now, when other countries are following the science, trump pushed miracle cures to sell on fox news. While other countries were flattening the curves, he said the virus would just, proof poof, go away like a miracle. While other countries open back of her business, what did we do . We had to shut down again. Almostrus has impacted every country, but there is a worse it has hit america than any other advanced nation. Is because of trumps trumps failure to take it seriously from the start. His refusal to get testing up and running, and flipflopping on social distancing and wearing masks. It is delusional belief that he knows better than the experts. , thef that is reason american dies of covid19 every 80 seconds. It is why countless businesses have had to shut their doors for good. It is why there is complete chaos over when and how to reopen our schools, mothers and fathers are confused and uncertain and angry about childcare and to safety of their kids at school, whether they will be in danger if they go or fall behind if they do not. Trump is also the reason it millions of americans are now unemployed. The longest economic expansion in history from barack obama and joe biden, and then, like Everything Else he inherited, he ran it straight into the ground. Ause of trumps failures trumps failures of leadership, our economy has taken one of the biggest hits out of all of the major industrialized nations with an Unemployment Rate that has tripled as of today. This is what happens when we elect the guy who just is not up for the job. Tatters,ry ends up in and so does our reputation around the world. But lets be clear. This election is not just about defeating donald trump or mike building thisbout country back better. That is exactly what joe and i will do. We will create millions of jobs and fight Climate Change through a clean energy resolution, bring brack back critical supply chains. Build on the Affordable Care act so everyone has the peace of mind that comes with Health Insurance and finally offered caregivers the dignity, the respect, and the pay they deserve. We will protect a womans right to make her own decisions about her own body, wrote out systemic root out systemic racism in our Justice System and pass a john lewis Voting Rights act that will ensure every voice is heard and every voice is counted. The civil rights struggle is nothing new to joe. It is like you got into public service, why he helped reauthorize the Voting Rights act and restore unemployment discrimination in employment discrimination laws. He takes his place in the ongoing story of americas march toward equality and justice as only way served alongside the first black president and has chosen the first black woman as his running mate. ,ut as joe always points out this election is about more than politics. It is about who we are as a country. I will admit over the past four years there have been moments where i have truly worried about our future. That there is a reason for doubt, whenever i have had my own doubts, i think of you, the american people, the doctors and nurses and frontline workers who are risking your lives to save others, the Truck Drivers and workers in grocery farms, in factories, working there, putting your own safety on the line to up us get through this pandemic, the women and students taking to the streets in unprecedented numbers , the dreamers and immigrants who know that families belong americansthe lgbtq who know what love is love, people of every age and color and great you finally declaring in one voice, black lives matter. All across the country this country, a new generation of children is hearing up growing up hearing the cries for justice and chants of hope on which i was raised, some strapped into strollers of their own. It is a song you will never forget. To everyone keeping up the fight, you are doing something. You are doing something great. Time,e the heroes of our and you are the reason. I know we are going to bring our country closer to realizing its great promise. To do it, we will need to work, organize and vote like never before. We need more than a victory on november 3. We need a mandate that proves the past four years are who we are or who we aspire to be. Joe likes to say that character is on the ballot, and it is true. When he saw what happened in charlottesville three years ago today, q knew we were in a battle for the soul of our nation. Together with your help, it is a battle we will win. Earlier this year, i said i would do whatever joe asked me to do. Now i am asking you to do the same. Jobjoebiden. Com. Electing joe biden is just the start of the work ahead of us. I could not be prouder to be but decided running to represent you, the people. Thank you, and may god bless the United States of america. Following that event, President Trump shared his thoughts. Biden and harris just had their first appearance. Did you watch . Pres. Trump he made a choice. He picked her. She left angry and mad. There was nobody more insulting to biden than she was. She said horrible things about him, including accusations made by a woman where i guess she believed the woman, and now all of a sudden she is running to be Vice President , is how wonderful she he is. He has sent such bad things and you know better than everybody. You dont want to write it, but you know better than anybody. She said horrible things about him, horrible things. She mocked him, openly mocked him. Thats why i thought that was a very risky pick. Im sure it will be played back, not necessarily by me, but by others. The other thing, if you look, she wants a 3 trillion tax hike , no fracking. How do you think no fracking in pennsylvania is going to play . That is a big fracking save. If you dont have Energy Produced that way, you would have taxes that are triple and unemployment you would never believe. Pennsylvania had the best year they have ever had. Best year. Exas, the almost every state in the nation last year had the best theyve ever had, and they are going to have that again next year. You can see that she wants no fossil fuels. Really . Tell that to texas. And then i hear trump is only one point up in texas. They said the same thing with crooked hillary clinton. Trump was down in texas, and that i won texas immediately when they said the polls are closed. I won by a lot, and i won georgia by a lot. Its almost like a duplication of what happened before, except we have much more energy now than we had in 2016, and we had record amounts in 2016. You take a look at the tax cuts, we gave the biggest tax cut in the history of our country and the biggest regulation cuts in the history of our country, by far. He wants to increase everybodys taxes. People whoof the wants that. You take a look, she wants to defund or substantially reduce money going to police departments. You cant do that. Its actually got to be the opposite. Ive been endorsed by so many police departments. I am getting a really good one this week that you will be seeing, really big, really good. But what police department, what Law Enforcement group could ever , where he saiden things that are so bad and so foolish, practically so stupid in terms of crime and what would happen. So we are getting all of Law Enforcement. We are getting the military. She wants to spend much less on our military. I have rebuilt the military. We have the Strongest Military now. We have equipment coming in, all made in the United States. When i took over, we had a military that was in terrible shape. It was depleted. It was a depleted military, old planes, old everything. And we have a beautiful, brandnew military with the best people in the world. We have never had anything like it. Some of the equipment is still coming in. I think we are going to be extremely successful. I was surprised that he picked her because of the horrible way she talked about him, and frankly because she dropped like a rock. When i ran, i ran against 17 people, mostly governors and some others. Ben carson was good. Mostly governors, mostly senators. I ran and i went up. She ran and she went down to rock bottom. Take a think she got to vote in the first state. Generally speaking, you dont want to pick somebody who went down. She went down in a very terrible way, and she said horrible things about biden. She said far worse about biden than i ever did. Washington journal. Every day, we are taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day, and we will discuss policy issues that impact you. Thursday morning, when the announcement of Kamala Harris as the Vice President ial nominee, we will talk about campaign 2020 as the major parties head into their respective conventions, National JournalsSenior National political columnist. 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