Is. I did it because i ran for senate because it was easier. The quality of peoples lives is more in your hands and on your shoulders than anyone else, making sure people feel safe walking down the street number making sure their garbage gets picked up, making sure their schools are safe and open, all concrete things that make everyday life great. They are not partisan things. They are practical things. People look to you. Democrats and republicans. You are on the front lines, floods to school shootings, Public Health issues, helping save lives as well as livelihood. I have made my priority to work closely with the from the time i got to senate 180 years ago. As well as my 10 your as tenure as vice president. I make this commitment to you. You will have access directly to the white house and i will be right there with you, helping you in your communities based on what you think you need and challenge you are facing. About the bottom up. It does not go from the top down. We are dealing with four historic crises let wants all at once. A devastating economic recession, a long overdue reckoning on racial justice, ravaging communities all across the country. That to eric and the governor of california and Washington State and oregon. Not one of those crises should have a partisan dimension. If i get elected president , i am not going to be a democratic president. I will be an american president. Red or your city is blue, i will be there, i promise you. Lead with the facts and reality. Uniting people around solution that work for everybody. Thiscally, this is how Current Administration is wired. The only problems that matter to this president seem to be the ones that affect him personally. He defines everything is red and. Read and lou. Red and blue. The president held the campaign that the insisted virus affects virtually nobody. Except elderly people with heart conditions and problems. Ask the folks in their communities how they feel about that. Is ask the families with empty seats at the Kitchen Table this morning. Their teachers, parents and grandparents, friends or coworkers on and it affects every single one of us in the community. This may be the toughest time to be a mayor, especially a big city mayor. Adversitye faced before. Back in 2008, the economy was in free fall. We were losing 700,000 jobs a month because of the recession. Than 16lost more trillion in personal wealth. People who had never missed a mortgage payment were all of a sudden underwater and foreclosed on. Significantly reducing the value of their home. It was devastating. We did not solve it by saying you are on your own. It is what it is. We came together. With your leadership, we provided 140 billion in state keeping Law Enforcement and firefighters on the job. Sent or thanhan 50 billion to your school districts. We provided a middle class tax relief, helping always send their kids college to college. We invested in the future. 42,000 miles of roads. Nearly 27,000 bridges. To go along with the Biggest Community investment and all of our history. Again, you and i say should be able to make decisions about what your city most needs. It should not have to go through your state legislature. You should have an opportunity. Economistsvative acknowledge that what we did saved us from a depression. The first thing i did, i went to the mayors. Some of you were still around. Spoke with over 200 mayors because of you, we came through the moment together. I really mean it. I was on the phone constantly. That is the same approach we should be taking today. It starts with your budgets. You have to balance your budgets. We are getting squeezed like never before. Municipal jobs are falling by the wayside. Furloughs and layoffs compounding the devastation. We still have no Effective National standard for curbing the virus. It is infuriating. Save 110,000 nearly 200,000 jobs lost between now and january. We can save 110,000 by the end of the year by simply wearing masks. It keeps businesses from opening. It keeps Emergency Rooms full and holds down your city from springing back to life. There is no reason, none, that we cannot Work Together. That we cannot Work Together to overcome these challenges. Act,ouse passed the heroes which provide 915 billion in local and state government. It is collecting dust in the senate. Majority leader, who i know well, said lets let the states go bankrupt. We should have a local Emergency Fund that drives resources yourght to you, expand health infrastructure, reimburses overtime pay to be sent to workers and first responders. Whatever your Community Needs the most, it is not all about resources. The time when people are crying out for justice, exercising the right to peacefully protest. It is a tough job under any circumstance. We can Work Together to broiled to build trust in our communities, to condemn all violence while still addressing the pain and injustice and ruling out systemic racism. As you deal with these effects of extreme weather, fire, floods, superstorms, it is like we have never seen. We can Work Together to invest in our communities and more resilient to climate change. Aboutlaces, it is flooding. Some places, it is about and wiped out by storm. By storms. Eeping people safe from fires it is also about being able to modernizing your buildings, and your transportation systems, making communities stronger, putting them in a better position for the years ahead. That is what i am planning to give to you. That is what i was doing as vice president. That is what i will do if i have the honor of becoming your president. Is dividennot do ourselves into pieces. That is the only strategy. But it does not work. You from aract problem, it can create new problems to occupy your attention, but it cannot actually solve anything. We all know better. Dividing ourselves gets us nowhere. Have to Work Together in good faith. Competently, efficiently. We can disagree on policies. Have to cooperate. We have to cooperate. It is the only way we will come out of this crisis. Is what we have done, tried with this campaign, and that is what i will try to do as president. I will work all of you and if i am elected president , i am going to be an american president. Doescities, red cities, it not matter, i promise you. Every american immunity deserves American Community deserves the full support of the american president. Hard under thes best of circumstances. The worst thing a president can do is make the job tougher because he thinks it benefits him or stirs up chaos in your communities. You deserve a partner will listen to you, who will work youryou, work on priorities. Someone who gets your back and works to cover your back no matter what you are and matter what challenge you are facing. Now isment we are facing an important moment. It is unamerican moment. Moment. An american we can emerge from this crisis. We can do what we are best at doing, unite. Work together. It starts with the mayors. Really mean that. It starts with all of you. I really mean that. It starts with all of you. You will have direct access to the white house. We need you to build back better. You are the foundation, not a joke. You are the ones living a way. What people do not realize is over the last six years, more young people will be in the cities than out of cities. So many possibilities. We have to stop the hate and division now. We have to stop pouring flames on the fire. We have to stop Start Building strengthen the american people. That is what you all do. Thatt to make clear to you i have never been more optimistic and i have been doing this a long time about the prospects of this country. The blinders have been taking out taken off the american people. They understand what is going on now. They understand. They understand it is about all of us. They want to get things done. So it is going to start with you, i promise you i will have your back. I mean that sincerely. Look at my record. I have and i want to make sure your ideas are the ones that are funneled up. They do not have to go through a state legislature or governor, they go straight to the federal government, straight to me. I really mean it. God protect our troops, and thank you for what you do. Your job is too hard for me. Washingtonck and examiner examine the political career of joe biden. Utilizing video from cspans Video Library dating back or than three decades, they talk about his political career, personal life, and vice presidency. 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