Candidate, al smith. Formerly formally introduced Kamala Harris as his Vice President shall candidate earlier this week in wilmington, delaware. Vice president me joe biden and senator Kamala Harris. One, the with each more i learn about them the more i talked to them, the more impressed i was, even though i knew them before. I want to thank each of them for being a part of this process. I look forward to working with them as we rebuild this country, to get elected, and once we are elected, god willing. I approached this with a seriousness of purpose and mind because this is a serious moment for our nation. We are at one of those inflection points. You have heard bc that before in our history. Me say that before in our history. A life changing election. The choice we make this november will decide the future of america for a very, very long time. Choice, a great opportunity great opportunities. I had great choice, but i have no doubt that i picked the right person to join me as the next Vice President of the United States of america. That is senator Kamala Harris. Americans across this nation 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 clinical fundraising. I think i know why. Youll join us as well, those of you listening today. Go to joebiden. Com today. Five dollars, 10, whatever. Smart, tough, experienced, a proven fighter for the backbone of this country the middle class, for all those struggling to get into the middle class. She knows how to govern, 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 one. Won. Took on big oil. She was a pioneer in Marriage Equality and tackled the gun lobby. The united watched States Senate go toe to toe with Trump Officials, trying to hide the truth, asking the tough questions that need to be asked and not stopping until she got an answer. When none was forthcoming, it was obvious what the answer was. As a member of the Intelligence Committee in the judiciary committee, she has been in the middle of the most Critical National security challenges our country faces. She has earned each and every of the accolades and achievements that she has gained, many of them often in the face of obstacles that others put in her way, but never quit. This morning, all across the up,on, little girls woke especially little black and brown girls, who so often feel overlooked and undervalued in their communities, but 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 what she referred to as the 3 00 moms andda, about dads awake late at night in their kitchens, scared, uncertain about how they would take care of their families, about how they would pay the bills, about how they were going to make it, simply make it. Growing up in scranton and claremont, delaware, i saw that struggle with my family as well. 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. That alld i both know folks are looking for is in even shot an even shot. Just give me a shot, a fair shot of making it. It will be the work of our ministry should to make sure they get a fair shot our administration to make sure they get a fair shot. They certainly do not have anyone in the president now on their side. That is going to change in a biden harris administration. It will be gratifying to see the enthusiasm, reaction, to senator harris as our next Vice President. You know, it comes from people all over the country. It is already occurring. All over the country. All ideological views, all backgrounds. Arets, of course, predictable. Some of them. It comes from all over, except, of course, from Donald Trumps white house and his allies. You all knew it was coming. You could have set your watch is to it. Donald trump already started his attacks, calling kamala nasty, whining about how she is mean to his appointees. It is no surprise because whining is what donald trump does best. Is anyone surprised donald trump has a problem with a strong woman or strong women across the board . That more is to come, but lets be clear. If you are a working person, worried about whether or not you will have a job to go to, whether you will be able to pay your mortgage, pay your rent, worried about the poison in the air you breathe, the water you drink, worried about your civil rights, even your basic right to dignity, which is under attack in this administration, Kamala Harris has had your back and now we have to have her back. Shes going to stand with me in this campaign and all of us are going to stand up for her. 2021, we will all watch senator harris raised her harris and swear raise her right hand and swear the oath of office as the first woman ever to serve in the Second Highest Office in this land. 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. America dig itself out of the hole they have put us in, we are going to build, build back, and build back better. We have a Public Health crisis. While they are in court trying to do away with health care. More than 5 million reported infections as a consequence of covid19, and still, months leadership or plan from the president of the United States of how to get this pandemic under control. States andp for the local governments trying to fill the vacuum of leadership from the white house. No real help for children and educators, for Small Businesses and frontline workers, who are the ones holding our country together. Issuing executive orders and making promises that in the end will defund the Social Security system, while insisting that this virus will disappear. Biden Kamala Harris administration will have a to meet thee plan 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, is this president says, it is not my fault. The governor should thank me more. As the old saying goes, give me a break. We have an economic crisis. Americans16 million 16 million still out of work. Track toump is on break another record. On track to leave office as the worst with the worst jobs record of any american president in modern history. But instead of doing the hard work of meeting facetoface with congressional leaders, democrats and republicans in the white house, like every other president has done to get americans the relief they need and deserve, donald trump is on the golf course. Yearsold you this three ago, you would look at me like i was being crazy. He has not even met with the leadership. He does not have time, it appears. Crisis, andimate donald trump refuses to even acknowledge. He speaks about Climate Change, all we hear is the word hoax. We are going to 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 his politics of racist rhetoric and appeals to division. You know, today is not only the day i am proud to introduce senator Kamala Harris as the Vice President ial candidate of the democratic party. It is also the third anniversary of that terrible day in charlottesville. Remember . Remember what it felt like to see those neonazis . Closure eyes. Those klansmen, white supremacists, coming out of fields, carrying lighted torches, faces contorted, bulging veins, pouring into the streets of a historic american city, spewing the same antisemitic bio we heard in hitlers germany in the 30s . Remember how it felt to see a violent clash ensue between those celebrating hate in those standing against it . And those standing against it . It was a wakeup call for all of us as a country. For me, it was a call to action. My father used to say silence is complicity. Not original to him, but he believed it. At that moment, i knew i could not stand by and let donald trump, a man who went on to say, when asked, said there were very fine people on both sides, very fine people on both sides. No president of the United States has ever said anything like that. As he continued to attack everything that makes america america, i knew we were in the battle for the soul of the nation. That is when i decided to run, and i am proud now to have senator harris at my side in that battle because she shares it with the same intensity that 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 . Know, someone who knows that the future of this country is limited only by the barriers we place on our own imaginations, because there is nothing americans cannot achieve we put our minds to it and do it together. One of the reasons i chose kamala is because we both believe that we can define america simply in one word possibilities. Possibilities. Let me say it again. Possibilities. Thats america. Thats what sets this nation apart. Everyone, the ability for everyone and we mean everyone to go as far and 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, is i have asked kamala. The most important he said to me, he asked me what i wanted. I told him i wanted to be the last person in the room before he made the important decisions. That is what i asked kamala. I asked kamala to be the last voice in the room. To always tell me the truth, which she well. Llenge my show options challenge my assumptions if she disagrees. Ask the hard questions. That is the best way we make decisions for the american people. I got a chance to spend some time at my home today, with kamala and doug, i want to thank them and publicly for agreeing to join and take this journey with jill and me. Doug, you will have to learn barriermeans to bea breaker yourself in this job you will take on. Americas first second gentleman. And although they are not with us here today, i want to thank ellen cole. I had a chance to speak to elems mom and dad and coal. We will 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. I have some news for you. You are all honorary bidens. Here the best part. Kamala, you have been an honorary biden for quite some time. I came first to know who kamala was through our son beau biden. They were friends. They served as attorneys general at the same time. They took on the same big fights together. Beau inn california, delaware, big fights that helped change the entire country. I know how much he respected kamala and her work, and that mattered a lot to me, to be honest with you, as i made this decision. We need to get to work pulling this nation out of these crises we find ourselves in, uniting this nation, and, yes, 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 the United States, Kamala Harris. Kamala, the floors years. The floor is yours. Sen. Harris thank you, joe. Thank you, joe. As i said, joe, when you called me, i 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, joe, i am so proud to stand with you. The iind for of all do so mindful of the heroic and ambitious women before me, who 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. From the worst Public Health crisis in a century. 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. 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 heres 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. , thank you. Biden for the trust you have placed in me. Jill, i know you will be an incredible first lady. I are sosband doug and grateful to become a part of your extended family. Received jos call, i have been thinking, yes, about the first biden that a rate that i really came to know, one beau. s beloved sons, in the great recession, we spoke on the phone every day, sometimes multiple times, working together to win back billions of dollars for homeowners from the big banks of the nation that were foreclosing on peoples homes. Let me tell you about beau biden. Beau was quickly that the kind of guy who inspired people to be a better version of themselves. He really was the best of us. What i would ask him when i would ask him, where did you get that . Where does this come from . He would always talk about his dad. I will tell you the love that they shared was incredible to watch. Was the most beautiful display of the love between a father and a son. Talked about how joe would spend four hours every day riding the rails backandforth from wilmington washington so he could make breakfast for his kids in the morning and make it home in time to talk them into bed each night. All of this so two little boys who had just lost their mom and their sister in a tragic accident would know that the world was still turning. And thats how i came to know joe. Whose firste response when things get tough is never to think about himself, but to care for everyone else. He is someone who never asks, why is this happening to me . Asks, what can i do to make life better for you . Compassion, his sense of duty to care for others, is why im so proud to be on his ticket. And, joe and i, or cut from the same cloth are cut from the same cloth. Family is everything to me, too. I cannot wait for america to get to know mike husband get to know my husband doug and our kids cole and ella. Or hugging my two 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 mean the one that means the most. You know, my mother and father came from opposite sides of the oned to arrive in america, 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. That is how they met, as students in the streets of oakland, marching and shouting for this thing called justice in a struggle that continues today. I was part of it. My parents would bring me to protests strapped tightly in my stroller. Raised my sister and me to believe that it was up to us and to 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. I devoted my life to making real the words carved in the United States supreme court, equal justice under law. 30 years ago, i stood before a judge for the first time, breathed deep, and uttered the phrase that would truly guide my harri , lie Kamala Harris, for the people. Fighting in the bath of victims who needed help, the people. Ast is who i fought for californias attorney general. It is the people who i have fought for as United States senator, where have worked every day i have worked every day to hold Trump Officials accountable to the. Joe and i will fight for every day in the white house. Presentody who has in my fair share of arguments in court, the case against donald trump and mike pence is opened and shut. Just look where they have gotten us. More than 16 million out of work. Millions of kids who cannot go back to school. A crisis of poverty, of homelessness, afflicting black, brown, and Indigenous People the most. A crisis of hunger afflicting one and five mothers who have children that are hungry. Thantragically, more 165,000 lives that have been lost 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. Had aars ago, in fact, we Different Health glacis. It was called ebola. We all remember that pandemic. But do you know a happened then . Barack obama and joe biden did their job. Only two people in the United States died. 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 he saw on fox news. While other countries were flattening the curve, he said the virus would just go away. Like a miracle. When other countries opened backup for business, what did we do . We had to shut down again. Impacted almost every country. There is a reason it has hit america worse than any other advanced nation. Failurecause of trumps to take it seriously from the start. To get testing up and running, his flipflopping on social distancing and wearing masks, his delusional belief that he knows better than the experts. All of that is reason. An americanon that 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. Fathers are confused and uncertain and angry about childcare and the 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 millions of americans are now unemployed. He inherited 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. Because of 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. Our country ends up in tatters, and so does our reputation around the world. But lets be clear. This election is not just about defeating donald trump or mike pence, it is about building this 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 back critical supply chains. , so the future is. Made in america. Made in america. Build on the Affordable Care act, so everyone has the peace of mind that comes with health insurance. And finally, offer 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, 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 why he got into public service, why he helped reauthorize the Voting Rights act and restored unemployment discrimination in employment discrimination laws. He takes his place in the ongoing story of americas march toward equality and justice as the only, as the only one who served alongside the first black president and has chosen the first black woman as his running mate. But 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. Whenever i think 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 stores, in factories, farms 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 together, the lgbtq americans who know what love is love, people of every age and color and finally declaring in one voice, black lives matter. All across this country, a new generation of children is 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. You are the heroes of our time, and you are the reason. I know we are going to bring our country closer to realizing its s great promise. But 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, who 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. Visit joebiden. Com. Because 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. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] hush now, child, and dont you cry withllowing that event President Biden and senator harris, President Trump shared his thoughts. Here is what he had to say while speaking to reporters of the white house. Harrisbiden and kamala just appeared together in their First Campaign event, right before he got up from the podium. Can you tell us if you watched the remarks in your reaction . Pres. Trump i did not watch, i saw just a moment of him speaking, a moment of her speaking, and it was enough. He made a choice to pick her. I watched her. I watched her poll go boom, boom, boom, down to him was nothing, and she looked angry, she left mad, there was nobody more insulting to biden than she was. She said horrible things about him, including accusations made about him by a woman, where she, i guess, believe the woman, and now all of a sudden, she is running to be Vice President , saying how wonderful he is. I thought it was a very unusual pig, because she said such bad things, and you know better than anybody that she will write it, because you know better than to do that but you know better than anybody, she said horrible things about him. Horrible things. And she mocked him, openly mocked him. That is why i thought it was a very risky pick, because i am sure it will be played back, not necessarily by me come about by others. It will be played back. 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 state. If you did not have Energy Produced a that way, you would have taxes that were triple, and you would have unemployment that you would not believe. Hadennsylvania, they have the best year theyve ever had, oklahoma, best year. Almost every state in our nation last year had the best they ever had. And she wants no fossil fuels, they say the same thing for inoked hillary clinton, texas, i won by a lot, and in georgia, i won by a lot. We have much more energy now than we ever had in 2016, and we had a lot. We had record amounts in 2016. Please take a look at the tax cut. We had the biggest tax cut in the history of our country and the biggest regulation cuts in the history of our country, by far, all right . Increase everyones taxes, and she is one of the people that wants that. I mean, you take a look at that, leastnts to defund or at substantially reduce money going through police departments, and you cant do that. You cant do that. It actually has got to be the opposite. I have been endorsed by so many police departments, and getting a really good one this week that you will be seeing. Really big, really good, but who what police department, what Law Enforcement group could ever support joe he said things that are so bad and so foolish, frankly, 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 rebuild our military. We have the Strongest Military now. Much of the women is coming in, all made in the United States, 2. 2 5 trillion we spent. When i took over, we had a military that was totally it was in terrible, terrible shape. It was depleted. It was a depleted military. Old planes, old tanks, 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. Job,we have done a real and i think we are going to be extremely successful. I was surprised that he picked her, very surprised, because of the horrible way she talked about him, and, frankly, she dropped like a rock. I ran, when i ran again 17 people, mostly governors and others, some of them, ben carson and others, who was very strong, very good, but mostly governors, mostly senators, and i ran, and i went up. She ran, and she went down to rock bottom. I dont think she ever got to run her first in the first state. So generally speaking, you dont want to pick somebody that went down. She went down, but 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. His running and mate, Kamala Harris can Work Together in delaware for a briefing on the pandemic. They