Community views the u. S. Then in the afternoon, eric holder and Newt Gingrich rich talk about voting and the 2020 election. At 2 00 p. M. Eastern, more on election day and what to expect from the i beg your pardon policy center. Six six days ahead of election day, Vice President joe candidate Kamala HarrisVice President ial candidate, harris in arizona. Tucson . Ris whats up, hey, everybody. Can we please hear for mayor romero . [horns honking] what an incredible leader. She is a sign of strength and compassion and she represents who we are as a nation. Thank you for everything you are and everything you do. Do. It is so good to be back in arizona. It is so good to be back in arizona. You guys are going to make a difference. You guys will elect the next president and Vice President. You will do that. That. I want to thank Community College for hosting us, chancellor lee lambert, the students, congressman there you are. Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick and the great begin per lets get this done, tucson. And so heres the thing. Ofst of all, in the spirit the late, great john mccain i was thinking lets start with a little straight talk. There has been some talk about values. Let me tell you, tucson, i am a proud, patriotic american. I love my country. Values reflect the values of america. Our values tell us we have the biggeste worst, disaster of any president ial administration in the history of this country. Our values tell us that. Us that wetell should not be in a moment where 225,000 people have died in our country. Over eight point 5 Million People have contracted a virus when wee known got the information, we have known how serious this is. There is so much at stake in this election and im going to start by talking about a few of the things we know. We as a nation are in the middle of four crises happening at once. We are in the midst of a pandemic, a Public Health pandemic. Overike i said has caused 225,000 americans today. To die. People many of whom died without family members being able to be with them to hold their hand, to look in their eyes because of the nature of this virus. Million americans who now have a preexisting condition and untold longterm Health Consequences because of this virus. And the tragedy of it is this, it did not have to be this bad. It did not have to be this bad. Thanks to a fellow by the name onbob woodward, we know that january 20 eighth, donald trump was informed about the seriousness of this pandemic. He was told it will kill people. He was told it is five times more deadly than the flu, he was told it would hurt people of every age. He was told it was airborne. And he sat on that information. He did not tell you. Parent as aine of a Small Business owner, as a on january 28, if you would have known what the president had known . What you might have been able to do to plan . To prepare . Knowing that even before this pandemic, so Many Americans working 23 jobs to pay the rent and put food on the table knowing that even before this pandemic most americans did not have more than 1000 life savings, what people might have been able to do to prepare . What you might have been able to do to prepare your children for the fact they may not be able to go back to school . What you might have been able to do if you run a Small Business to put in place provisions for the fact that you might be out of business for months . What you mightve been able to do to buy some extra toilet paper . Honking] to American People were lied by the president of the United States and lets be clear about something. The president of the United States is also the commander in chief who has been at the has responsibility to concern himself with the health and set the of the American People and on that count, donald trump failed. He failed us, he failed the American People. Thing, tucson, you know this. There is a very clear choice in this selection on this matter because on the one hand you have joe biden who is saying that we know access to health care should be a right and not just a privilege of those who can afford it. Joe biden, who together with president obama was responsible for creating the Affordable Care act that brought health care to over 20 Million People who do not have it. Who said we will protect people with preexisting conditions, honk if you know anybody with diabetes. Hogg if you know anybody with high blood pressure, honk if you know anybody with breast cancer. Honking] joe said we will protect you and the people you love. Win, we are we going to get in and expand coverage. We will bring down eligibility age for medicare to age 60. We were will reduce the cost of prescription drugs and premiums. He understand that when we are talking about health care, the body does not just start from the neck down, it also requires health care from the neck up. On one hand, you have joe biden. On the other hand, you have withd trump who together his boy, bill barr are in the United StatesSupreme Court right now suing to get rid of the Affordable Care act in the midst of a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people over just the last several months. If they have their way, over 20 Million People will lose coverage and the benefits for people with preexisting conditions will be over, lets understand part of what the Affordable Care act did is it said for women, free mammograms for all people, Free Health Screenings for cancer and they want to get rid of that. There is a very clear choice in our selection. Not to mention what they did two just ran through a Supreme Court justice because of their agenda to get rid of the Affordable Care act. I voted no. It was aning] illegitimate process. Heres the thing about where donald trump has been on the Affordable Care act. You know we have been witnessing the same thing, from the time donald trump was running for office through the time he has been in office, he has had this weird obsession with trying to get rid of whatever barack obama and joe biden created, have you noticed that . We do not need president with weird obsessions. I think it is time for that and, do you agree . [cars honking] of an in the midst economic crisis being compared to the great depression. Here in arizona, one in 10 households are describing their family members as being hungry. We are in the midst of a hunger crisis in america, people arent covering that enough. Ive seen numbers, one in five mothers as describing her children under the age of 12 as being hungry. Here in arizona, one in seven households is having a difficult time paying rent or were unable to pay rent last month. Here in arizona, one in four businesses has gone out of business. On one hand, you have joe biden who says you want to talk to me about how the economy is doing, will then you need to tell me, how are working people doing . How are working families doing . Says you want to deal with the economy, then we will not raise taxes on anyone making less than 400,000 a year, we will also cut taxes for middleclass working people, we will make sure that no working families pay more than 7 of their income in childcare. 15,000 tax a credit for firsttime homebuyers understanding that is the way in access for most families to achieve Economic Health and wellbeing that is intergenerational. That is how joe biden thinks about the economy. On the other hand, you have donald trump. When asked about how the economy is doing, donald trump asks, will house is the stock market doing . Donald trump asks how our rich people doing . Donald trump, as his first order of business tax passed a tax bill benefiting the top 1 and the biggest corporations of america. Trillion deficit for all of us. Let me tell you something, when joe and i are elected, we are about to get rid of that. [cars honking] and invest that money in you, the American People. We will put that money in an infrastructure plan that is about the creation of millions of jobs. We will put that money into an investment and Renewable Energy and what we know that will do, that will not only save our planet but create jobs. We will put that money to relieve Student Loan Debt for any kid who is coming from a family who makes less than 125,000 and until they go to a four year college for free. That is what joe and i will do. Crisisin the midst of a longoverdue reckoning on Racial Injustice in america. Note, joe biden knows americans americas history. He knows the history of the country and has the courage to speak truth about it. Joe biden has the ability to say black lives matter. [cars honking] donald trump will never speak those words. Joe biden knows that we need to look at Racial Disparities in america, we need to understand latinos, africanamericans have been three times more likely to contract covid and twice as likely to die from it. Joe biden knows our indigenous brothers and sisters have the highest rate of diabetes of any population in america. Joe biden says Pay Attention to this and understand a real leader will address the truth and it speak the truth in a way that is about promoting equality and equity. On the other hand, you have a donald trump who was on that debate stage at the first debate and refused to condemn white supremacists. Down sayingubled stand back and send by. Standby. Donald trump who has showed a pattern from the first days he was running and questioned the legitimacy of americas first black president. When peacefulho protesters were protesting Racial Injustice in charlottesville where young then was killed and on other side there were neonazis wearing swastikas and carrying tiki torches spewing antisemitic and racial slurs. Donald trump says there are fine people on each side. He came into office talking asmexicans and rape rapist and criminals. His first order of business was to pass a muslim ban. There is a real choice in this election because you see, joe biden and i understand america deserves so much more. We want a leader who is not andt trying to sow hate division. We know that the real strength of any human being is not based on who you beat down, it is based on who you lift up. [cars honking] that is the kind of leader joe is. The crises we are facing and i dont have to tell arizona this includes a climate crisis. Burning. Coast has been these wildfires. I have gone back, i am from california, i have gone back and visited with family that have been evacuated. With firefighters who are e their ownres whil homes are burning. My brotherinlaw is a firefighter. I have seen the damage and destruction. The damage and destruction in our gulf coast states because of the storms that have wiped out entire communities. In the Midwest Farmers have lost whole seasons of crops because of the floods. Lets deal with this, lets face fact, lets embrace science. Let us do it with a sense of weency and also understand need to set time limits. Net zero emissions by 2050. We need to set goals that include an investment in Renewable Energy and about jobs. Millions of jobs. On the other hand, you have got a donald trump. About thesked wildfires there is a reporter to ask him Something Like scientists are telling us, science is telling us that there is a connection between these extreme weather conditions and those wildfires, will you address that . And the president of the United States in his utter eloquence says science does not know. The president of the United States referred to science as a person. We need a president who embraces fact and speaks the truth to the American People and deals with what is one of the greatest threats to us as a species. Andhese are the threats these are the crises that we are dealing with right now. These are just some of them and it brings me to what is happening right now across america. A process that will end in six days and that is the selection. This election. Everything, is that everything is in each of our hands in terms of the power we possess through our vote and our action to determine who will be the next president of the United States. [cars honking] people ask, they say does it matter if i vote . Why should i vote . Mentionedl you, i three things in response to that question. To, it is important to vote honor the ancestors. People who fought, who marched for our right to vote. We just this year lost the great john this year, we lost the great john lewis, a Great American who shed his blood on the Edmund Pettus bridge together with so many others. John lewis was such a fighter for civil rights. He understood the ongoing fight for civil rights. Not only did he shed blood fighting for africanamericans to vote in the south and around our country, it was john lewis who was always at the front of the line saying the civil rights fight is a fight for marriage equality. The civil rights fight is a fight for immigrant rights. The civil rights fight is for equity and fairness. So, it is about honoring the ancestors, those who sacrificed so much. Its honoring the ancestors, knowing that this year, we celebrated the passage of the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote. [horns honking] right . And honoring the suffragettes who were marching and fighting and saying we will not be deterred, we will not be silenced. [horns honking] honoring the ancestors. Reason number two, everything is at stake. Everything is at stake. You go down the list. Everything that impacts you and your family and your neighborhood and your community and our country. From healthcare to if we are going to support working families and working people, understanding that it is that kind of approach that has built the middle class of america and made us strong when we have been strong. Everything is at stake. Whether we are going to have a country that embraces the fact that we are a nation built in large part by immigrants and we must create a pathway to citizenship and honor americas promise to our dreamers and renew daca. [horns honking] everything is at stake. Whether we are going to embrace science and deal with the changing climate. Whether we care about our standing in the world. Thathether we understand the commanderinchief of the United States of america should never take the word of a foreign dictator over the word of the american intelligence community. [horns honking] everything is at stake. So we vote to honor the ancestors. We vote because we know everything is at stake, so much is at stake. Here is the third reason i think it is important for folks to vote. I have been traveling all over. I have been in florida, michigan, ohio, georgia, north carolina. I was in arizona today. Im going to head to texas. I have been all over. We have a long history of powerful folks trying to make it difficult for other folks to vote. And in 2013, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights act and there were ahat, couple states that put into place laws that made it difficult, laws purging the voter rolls, and we have people in powerful positions now, including the president of the United States, who openly encouraged suppression of the vote. People who are trying to make it confusing. Youve gotta fill out this envelope and put it out on that envelope. Places where you have to have a perfect stranger sign or somebody else sign your envelope. Places in our country that are pulling away drop boxes to make it difficult. They are shutting down polling sites. And we have to ask, why are so many powerful trying to make it difficult for us to vote . [horns honking] why are they trying to confuse us . Why is the president messing with the post office . And here is the answer, because they know our power. They know our power. [horns honking] they now when we vote, things change. They know when we vote, we win. And so lets not ever let anyone take our power from us. Ours is the power, so use our voices, and at election time, that means our vote. Lets not let anyone take it from us. [horns honking] because heres the thing. Our democracy is always going to be as strong as our willingness to fight for it. And so that is what we will do. And that means every one of us voting, talking to our friends letting them know what is at stake. And then, tucson, my final point is this. This moment will pass. This moment will pass. And years from now our children, grandchildren, others, they will ask us, where were you at that moment . Where were you at that moment, they will ask us. And what we will tell them is so much more than just how we felt. What we are going to tell them is what we did. [horns honking] [cheers and applause] what we did. We are going to tell them how we were hanging out this one afternoon at pima Community College. We are going to tell them that that we let folks, our neighbors friends, coworkers, and family know what is at stake. We reminded them of the sacrifices of the ancestors. We told them about the power. We said, yes, we have been in a pandemic where there is some isolation going on but you are not alone. We reminded them they are not alone. We reminded them dont let anybody make you feel small. That is what we will tell them we did. We will tell them we knew we were a community. We knew that the strength of our nation is based on our unity. We will tell them we fought knowing that we all, regardless of where we lived, we will tell them that we knew we had so much more in common than what separates us and we would not let anyone divide us as a nation. We would not let anyone break our confidence in our strength and humanity and commitment to democracy. That is what we will tell them. And we will tell them, and thats how we elected joe biden the next president of the United States. Thank you, tucson. Thank you. [cars honking] [cars honking] im talking about things that i know its ok, show yourself some love with six days left until election day, stay with cspan. Watch campaign 2020 teanch every coverage every day on cspan. Stream at cspan. Org or on the radio app. Your place for an unfiltered view of politics. Cspans wall street journal. We are taking your calls on the news of the day. We discuss policy issues that impact you. 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