Mr. Biden hello, hello, hello. What a magnificent setting. Its hard when you drive in here not to think of circumstances president roosevelt faced and how he overcame so much for so many. Good afternoon. A few weeks ago i spoke at gettysburg about the need to unite our nation. Today, im here in warm springs because i want to talk about how we are going to heal our nation. Over these past few months there has been so much pain and so much suffering, and so much loss in america. Over 225,000 people have lost their lives to a virus. Many of those lives lost in the cruelest way possible. Alone. Alone. Alone in a hospital room. Alone in a nursing home. No family, no friends, no loved ones beside them in those final moments. It haunts so many of the surviving families. Families who were never given a chance to say goodbye. I, and many of you know what loss feels like when you lose someone you love. You feel that deep black hole opening up in your chest. You feel like you are being swallowed into it. The tragic truth of our time is that covid has left a deep and lasting wound in this country. Millions of americans have lost their jobs, and we see the empty storefronts in the shuttered businesses. The visible signs of lost hopes and broken dreams. But what we dont see is all those parents staring at the ceiling late at night wondering, how am i going to pay the mortgage . How am i going to pay our rent . What are they going to do if one of my kids get sick now that ive lost my Health Insurance . Growing up, like many of you, i watched my father struggled to find work. He made what i called the longest walk any parent could make up a short flight of stairs to his childrens bedroom to tell a child you cannot play on that Little League team anymore. You cant go back to the same school. We cant stay here, joey, we cant stay in scranton anymore. We have to move. There are good jobs in delaware. When i get one, i will come back for you, your sister, your brother and your mom. Only 157 miles away, joey. My father came home every weekend for that year, but he always said when we finally got settled in delaware, he used to say, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. My sister heard it as well, valerie. He said, its about your dignity. Its about respect, its about your place in the community. And right now, in this autumn afternoon, millions of americans all across this country feel they have lost all that. A season of protest has broken out all across the nation. Some of it is senseless burning, looting and violence that cant be tolerated and wont. But much of it is a cry for justice. From a community that has long had a knee of injustice on their neck. The names of george floyd, breonna taylor, jacob blake. They will not soon be forgotten, not by me, not by us and not by this country. We are going to inspire a new way of justice in america. These are historic, painful crises. The insidious virus, the economic anguish, the systematic discrimination. And one of them could have rocked the nation, any one of them, yet, we have been hit by all three once. If we are honest with ourselves, the pain is striking at the heart of all of our country and goes back not months, but years. Our politics for too long have been mean, bitter and divisive. You can hear it now in the distance. We have stopped seeing dignity in one another. We stopped showing one another respect. Too many among us spend more time shouting than listening. More time fighting than working together. More time demonizing others and than lifting them up. The divisions in our nation are getting wider. Angry people upset. Anger and suspicion are growing. Our wounds are getting deeper. Many wonder, has it gone too far . Have we passed the point of no return . Has the heart of this nation turned to stone . I dont think so. I refuse to believe it. I know this country. I know our people. I know we can unite and heal this nation. Warm springs is a good place to talk about hope and healing. Franklin roosevelt came to use the therapeutic waters to rebuild himself. Stricken by the polio virus in 1921, he suffered from paralysis. Like many other americans in those prevaccine decades, fdr longed to live an independent life. A life that was not defined by his illness. To him, and to so many others facing physical challenges, warm springs offered therapy for the body, and i might add, and the soul. But it offered Something Else as well. Fdr came looking for a cure. But it was the lessons he learned here that he used to lift a nation. Humility, empathy, courage, optimism. This place represented a way forward. A way of restoration, resilience and healing. As years have followed, fdr had come back to warm springs often. To think about how to heal the nation and the world. Thats exactly what he did. Lifting us out of the great depression. Defeating tyranny, saving democracy. Then it was here, on april 12, 1945 that president roosevelt died. A casualty of war as surely as any who fell in combat. And the free world mourned. American leaders wept. Maybe even more important was the reaction of the American People. Naval chief petty officer graham jackson, a black man, cried as he played his accordion and tribute to fdr not far from here. And the story is told, that when Franklin Delano roosevelt s funeral went by, a man collapsed and grief. The neighbor asked him, did you know the president . His response was, no, the man said, but he knew me. He knew me. Few words better describe the kind of president our nation needs right now. A president who is not in it for himself, but for others. A president that does not divide us, but unites us. A president who appeals not to the worst in us, but to the best. A president who cares less about his tv ratings and more about the American People. A president who looks not to settle scores, but to find solutions. A president guided not by wishful thinking, but by science, reason and fact. That is the kind of president i that is the kind of president i hope to be. I am running as a proud democrat, but i will govern as an american president. I will work with democrats and republicans. I will work as hard for those who do not support me as for those who do. That is the job of the president. A duty of care for everyone. This place, warm springs, is a reminder that though broken, each of us can be healed. That as a people and a country, we can overcome this devastating virus. That we can heal a suffering world. And yes, we can restore our soul and save our country. These last hours, president roosevelt was at work on a speech that was to be delivered the next day. He was to say quote, today, we must cultivate the science of human relationships, the ability of all people of all kinds to live together and Work Together in the same world at peace. To live together and Work Together. That is how i see america. That is how i see the presidency. That is how i see the future. I tell you this from my heart. I believe in american hope, not fear. Unity, not division. Love, not hate. The presidency though is only one part of the american chorus. History is not only a story of the great and famous. Our history is a story of we the people. Of all of us together. I have long said the story of america is a story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Change in our country comes when the voices of the powerless reach the years of the powerful. When those whose names we will never know risk their lives in the words of dr. King, bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice. Bending that arc is the work of our time. It will take all of us. Red states, blue states, republicans, democrats, conservatives and liberals. I believe in the bottom of my heart we can do it. People ask me, why are you so confident, joe . Because we are the United States of america. There is nothing, nothing the American People cannot do. The news of Franklin Delano roosevelts death went out on the wires. An editor in chicago trying to his colleagues and said, clear the decks for action. I say to you today, if you give me the honor of serving as your president , clear the decks for action for we will act. We will act on the first day of my presidency to get covid under control. We will act to pass an economic plan that will finally reward work, not wealth in this country. We will act to pass my Health Care Plan to provide an Accessible Health care for every american and drug prices that are dramatically lower. We will act to pass the biden climate plan to meet the challenges of a Climate Crisis while creating millions of good paying, highpaying labor jobs. We will act to address we will act to give working people a shot again. We will act to restore our faith in democracy, and our faith in one another. Today, we are facing a Public Health crisis of historic proportions. With winter at hand, it is getting worse. Just last friday, 83,000 new cases in one day. Saturday, another 83,000 cases. Nearly 1000 people a day are dying. Another 200,000 deaths are expected over the next several months. And the president keeps telling us not to worry. He keeps telling us we are turning the corner. He is as removed from reality and as offensive when he told us the virus affects virtually nobody, just the elderly with heart conditions. Virtually nobody. Just the elderly with heart conditions. As if they do not matter. What he said in response to the number of deaths reaching 1000, he said it is what it is. It is what it is because he is who he is. In the spring, the president declared in his voice as commander in chief, he was going to wage war on the virus. Instead, he shrugged, he swaggered, and he surrendered. His chief of staff last week made a stunning admission. An admission that i believe but never thought he would say , saying quote, we are not going to control the pandemic, end of quote. We are not going to control the pandemic. It is a capitulation. It is the waving of a white flag. It is a window into the shocking truth about this white house, that they have never really tried. Think about all the Frontline Health professionals who have risked and some given their lives for the last nine months of this pandemic. Think about all the first responders. Think about all the Grocery Store clerks, the drivers, the delivery drivers of trucks. Teachers, parents and the kids home from school. Think about all those who have lost their jobs. Think about all those who have been infected by the virus. Think about all those who have died. They were giving their all while the president was giving up. I am here to tell you we can and we will control this virus. As president , i will never waive the white flag of surrender. Just imagine where we would be today if the president had embraced Wearing Masks instead of mocking it. Imagine where we would be today if the president had practiced social distancing instead of holding superspreader events. Imagine where we would be if there was a comprehensive system of testing and tracing. I first put forward a detailed plan on how to deal with his virus back in march. This administration ignored it. I released several more detailed plans in the months that followed. The most recent just last week. This administration has yet to offer a single plan. It is one of the reasons why one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world, the new england journal of medicine called the president dangerously incompetent and went on to say the president turned a crisis into a tragedy. I am ready to act. I know what to do. Starting on day one of my presidency, we will do it. I have talked about the battle for the soul of america since the very beginning of this campaign. I want to be very clear in these closing days about what i mean and about what i intend to do in that battle to ensure that our better angels prevail over our worst instincts. I believe this election is about who we are the nation, what we believe and maybe most importantly, who we want to be. It is about our essence. It is about what makes us americans. It is that fundamental. Time and again throughout our history, we have seen charlatans, the conmen, the phony populists who sought to play on our fears, appeal to our worst appetites and pick at the oldest scabs we have for their own political gain. They appear when the nation has been hit the hardest and we are at our most vulnerable. Never to solve anything but only to benefit themselves. Pope francis warns us against this phony populism that appeals to quote, the basest, most selfish instincts. He goes on to say politics is something more noble than posturing, marketing and media spin. These sew nothing but division, conflict, and cynicism. He says for those who seek to lead, we would do well to ask ourselves, why am i doing this . Why . What is my real aim . Pope francis asked the question that anyone who seeks to lead this nation should be able to answer. My answer is this. I run to unite this nation and to heal this nation. I have said that from the beginning as badly necessary. The bible tells us there is a time to break down and a time to build up. A time to heal. This is that time. God in history have called us to this moment and to this mission with our voices and our votes. We must free ourselves from the forces of darkness, from the forces of division, and the forces of yesterday. The forces that pull us apart, hold us down and hold us back. If we do so, we will once more become one nation under god , indivisible. A nation united. A nation strengthened. A nation healed. That is my goal. That is why i am running. That is what we must do. Thank you all for being here and may God Bless America and may god protect our troops. Stay safe and wear your mask. [applause] because your sky full of stars im going to give you my heart because your sky full of stars you light up i do not care go on and tear me apart doont care if you in the sky full of stars with left with six days left until election day on november 3 when Voters Decide who will control congress and occupy the white house next year. Stay with cspan. Watch campaign 2020 coverage every day on cspan. Listen on the cspan radio app. Your place for an unfiltered view of politics. A look at our live coverage on wednesday. 10 00 a. M. Eastern, the heads of facebook, twitter, and google testify at a Senate Commerce committee for regulations on the tech industry. P. M. , a Senate Debate from georgia between republican incumbent david perdue and his democratic challenger jon ossoff britton National Security jon ossoff. The National Security advisor Robert Obrien speaks with the Hudson Institute on cspan2. 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