Next president of the United States. Thank you for coming today, joe biden. Joe biden has not only been here before, hes always fought for us. Always. Vice President Joe Biden is our trusted friend. He is likhes like an uncle, hea brother and hes here with us in toledo, the home of General Motors most advanced transmission facility in the entire world. [applause] with an additional 39 million of investments announced recently, and also home to the worldclass production platform, the largest on the north american continent. I can guarantee you without joe biden, neither of them would have survived the fallout from the recession. We remember, i remember the recovery act when it was democrats who made sure they were refinanced and paid back every penny with interest, and i remember every republican across the country but for a few voted against the refinancing that keep the lights on in our home city. So, joe biden is no wall street wannabe. Without his consequential leadership, no one in ohio and much of the midwest and the towns we live in would have had to turn off their lights. Joe biden is the real deal. He is a family man with experience in government not to be taken lightly. He possesses decades of experience to. Hes traveled hundreds of thousands of miles on behalf of our country and as a senator and Vice President , and he is a staunch defender of liberty over tierney. He knows the difference and knows who the enemies of liberty are. Hes looked them in the eyes and he has checked them before and he will check them again. As a person, joe biden, despite having to endure more family tragedies than any of us could ever even imagine has continued his Public Service to fight for every family and every worker as if they were his relative and i can guarantee you he is a gentle man, hes a unifier and not a divider and a transformative leader on every important issue we face in the free world. War on peace, economic recovery, nuclear security, a bright new Clean Energy Future for the country. The education of our children and the health of our people. Joe biden respects the troops and military leaders and possesses the steady temperament you need in that position. You will not see joe biden tried to get votes by fueling hatred. As president he will improve healthcare and protect Social Security, medicare, medicaid, all democratic programs to help the generations to lead America Forward to an even brighter future. This is the joe biden i know and you know and we respect. Im honored to know him and ive urgeiurged him to run for presit of the United States the people in this region and across the country but also freedom sedge around the world. He understands our enemies. And we have to have people in that position who will protect our birthright of liberty. It will be my honor to not just vote for joe biden but to work with him and senator harris to build back better the america we love and hope for for our children and grandchildren. Thank you for being here today and god bless you all. Please welcome kinyetta jones. Auto workers are the lifeblood of ohio and the backbone of our community. So when the Auto Industry was on its back that meant everything came to a halt and faith of our working families were in the balance. In ohio we never quit. We shared a lot of tough times, but we keep fighting. From General Motors in 2009, local businesses were left stagnant. But i didnt rest and neither did the workers. I started training workers and when the job. , we would be ready. Thankfully, those jobs did come back because president barack obama and vice President Joe Biden believed in our Community Just as strongly as we did. President obama knew jones wouldnt quit until we were back on our feet again. Joe biden understands what happens to the Auto Industry who happens to america. He believes in us and knows our strength. Its the faith and respect for the workers that saved our communities and help to save working americans. Joe biden knows what it means to tell your kids you lost your job but its going to be okay. Joe biden bid on us then and is betting on us now. Thats because he understands what we, the ohio Auto Industry workers know, we fight with everything we can until we are thriving once again. Its time to fight now for the future working that ohio deserves. Joe biden has never let us down and never turned his back. As president , he will fight for the dignity of every worker and the opportunity the Auto Industry deserves. I am proud to introduce to you the former champion of the Auto Industry and working families everywhere in america, our next president of the United States, vice President Joe Biden. Hello, toledo. [cheering] this feels like coming home. I tell you what, my dad was an automobile man. After losing the job in pennsylvania he had to move to delaware because my cousin was selling General Motors products. My state used to have the largest percentage of autoworkers than any state in the nation because we had a small population and the largest General Motors and largest plant outside of michigan and ohio. I saw what happened when we got hit very hard. We lost both of the plants. Let me start by saying mr. Mayor, thanks for the passport into your city. Marcy, youve been a friend a long time, thank you for the introduction. Thertheres no more fears defenr within the people she grew up with an marcy. Shes never, ever forgotten where she came from. Shes tough, she is a straight shooter, influential in congress and she sees you. You are always in her view. Mr. President , i know you are new and piece of cake i dont have to worry about if i get elected in the first 100 days. But all kidding aside, thank you for hosting us and thank you to local 14. And kenyatta, thanks for the introduction, all you did, jumping in and helping us govern. You remind me of something my dad said. He said your job is about a lot more than a paycheck. Its about your dignity and place in the community. Its about respect. Its about being able to say to your kids everything is going to be okay and mean it. That is what the job is about. A decent paying job like the uaw provides. I grew up surrounded by hardworking families in scranton and delaware when we had to move there was no work in scranton. Just like here in toledo, the times are hard. Unemployment is way up due to the pandemic in a terrible way that its been handled. The Economic Outlook remains uncertain. Across ohio and the country, folks are worried about making their next mortgage or rent payment and whether or not they can purchase the prescription without being able to put food on the table, literally. Worried about whether their kids school is open and will be able to stay open and if they are not, how they can go to work and still take care of their kids. They see the people at the very top doing better than they ever have. While they are left to wonder who is looking out for me. That is Donald Trumps presidency. 215,000 dead because of covid. We would like you to lose another 200,000 for the next few months unless we take serious action, and he doesnt know what hes doing. All because hes only worried about one thing, the stock market. He refuses to follow science. Its estimated that if we just wear these masks naturally we savreceive over 100,000 lives between now and the end of the year. This president knew back in january he was briefed and detailed by the Intelligence Committee how extremely dangerous this virus was, how Communicable Disease was. He went on a taped interview with bob woodward, a leading journalist, telling woodward he knew how dangerous the disease was, but did nothing. Ask yourself why didnt he tell us, why didnt he warn us . He said nothing. He told woodward he didnt want to panic the American People. Thats why he said nothing. We dont panic. America doesnt panic, but trump panicked. His reckless personal conduct has been unconscionable. The longer Donald Trumps president , the more reckless he seems to get. Doctor fauci, the most respected on this in the world, in the country, he told the president , in the announcement of the pick for the Supreme Court in the rose garden its referred as a super spreader. All those people that caught and got the disease. How is he responding, well guess what, hes running an ad you probably saw quoting doctor fauci out of context way back in march referring to Public Health officials, doctor fauci said i cant imagine that anybody could be doing more,. In the recent ad that is going out, trump adds doctor fauci is saying that about him, the president. Trump and his campaign deliberately lie, making it sound like fauci was talking about trump. Fauci went on and said i didnt give permission for that quote. He wasnt referring to the president. And even after that, fauci said he didnt say that, the president , the campaign, even after fauci leave this out, the Campaign Said we are still going to use it because he did say it, even though it wasnt about him. The point im trying to make is it was a lie like we are being told about everything about the covid consequences. And the consequence to the misleading irresponsible actions on the part of donald trump, how many empty chairs were around your breakfast table this morning, someone you love, someone you care about, someone you knew, family member, neighbor, missing and why . Because of negligence. Look, i view this campaign as i said before and i will say it again between scranton and park avenue, toledo and park avenue, all trump can see is from two wall street. He values the dow jones and index. Like a lot of you, i spent a lot of my time with guys like trump looking down on me, the catholic kid in the neighborhood. Guys who thought they were better than me because they had a lot of money. Guys that inherited everything they ever got and still managed to squander. I have to admit, i shouldnt have done it but i was on the record i still have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder about guys like him. I read some stories after i got the nomination that, quote, if biden gets elected, he will be the first non Ivy League School graduate to get elected in 80 or 90 years. Have a seat. You know what, like the university of delaware, i was proud of it. Hard to get there and hard to get through in terms of money. But since when can someone who went to a State University not qualified to be president . Folks, i know what it takes to be president. I sat next to a man for eight years watching and participating. My mom taught me what you are probably taught by your parents. She said joey, nobody is better than you but everybody is your equal. I dont measure people based on the size of their bank account. I dont respect people based on whether they own a mansion. I dont judge them based on whether they belong to a country club. I measure people by the strength of their character, their honesty, their courage. My mom used to say the greatest virtue of all his courage. If you are redeemed by your courage, thats what she would say, redeem by your loyalty. Honesty, loyalty, things that are bigger than yourself. The neighborhoods we were raised in. Its all about family. Decency, honor, opportunity, these are the values i learned growing up in scranton, and my guess is you learned growing up in toledo or wherever you grew up. People in scranton didnt have money in the stocks. And growing up, every penny of my dad made went to pay the bills and keep the lights on and food on the table. Every penny our friends in scranton made went to paying the bills and taking care of their families as well, and we looked out for our neighbors. Thats why i have a different message on how i judge the health of americas economy. I see hardworking women and men who are just trying to earn an honest living and take care of their families and want and even shot. They are not asking for anything, just asking for a fair shot. The American People would never, ever let their country down, never. The other expression my dad would have when you see the abuse of power theres only one way to respond to it, and that is with power. The only power we have to take on Corporate America is union power. Thats the only power. I think back to 2008 and we were elected and inherited the worst recession short of the depression and history. He put me in charge of the act, 800 billion needed to save us from going into depression. We stand fraud and we were able to see when other states received substantial assistance to address their economic pain and recovery and rebuild, to make sure we kept teachers, firefighters and cops, public nurses on the job, people being laid off because you dont have the local money to do it. So, they didnt have to be fired because of the lack of money. Thats when the federal government stepped up and started the longest sustained economic recovery in american history. This guy inherited and then squandered again. But you know what Mitch Mcconnell said recently about helping the states and cities. He said, quote, let them go bankrupt. I heard that before. You heard it, tomac. Republicans said the same thing about the automobile industry. Like i said, i come from automobile state. The Auto Industry supported in hundred eight ohioans on the brink. More than ten years ago but you remember like it was yesterday. It was on the brink. But we depended on you and it paid off. The finest autoworker in the world. Management screwed up, you didnt. You didnt make the mistake. And by the way, it all got paid back that guys who made the greatest sacrifices, autoworkers, you made the sacrifices to get it back. , so its over the many objections the many we rescued in the automobile industry. General motors and chrysler sending 1 million jobs and then what happened when donald trump came to office, remember what he said in 2017 . He said dont move, dont sell your house. After a decade in cleveland i met with an Elementary School teacher in lordstown. Her husband was there as well. One of the workers who lost his job accepted a transfer to a plant in kentucky eight hours away to maintain his healthcare and pension. He drive to 16 hours a weekend. But donald trump didnt stop there. He betrayed Union Workers at goodyear when he called for a boycott of buying goodyear tires because of a personal grudge. He passed a tax bill for the corporations that presented incentives to move jobs overseas. Folks, manufacturing is the backbone of america. We are in a manufacturing recession because of donald trump even before the virus hit. We are down 647,000 manufacturing jobs nationwide since the crisis started and sending people overseas, buying more overseas than we are selling. Theres still 10,900 lost jobs in ohio that havent come back. But some since Herbert Hoover over 90 years ago, first to leave office with fewer jobs than he had when he came to office. 750. The system is rigged. 30 billion while the rest of the people are getting killed. The middle of this pandemic. Why republicans have time to hold a hearing on the Supreme Court providing significant economic localities. I will tell you why. Its about getting his wish to wipe out the Affordable Healthcare Act because their nominees it provided coverage for 20 Million People who didnt have it. With preexisting conditions and weve seen the pledge to terminate the tax dedicated to financing Social Security. The Social SecurityDepartment Said if it goes through it will actually bankrupt by the middle of 2023. They call for a highlevel meeting between democrats and republicans in the white house. This is going on now. The house already past in the beginning of the summer. He was willing to work something out. The first president i can remember in the middle of an economic crisis isnt trying too call the party together. He turned his back on you. I promise you i will not do that. [cars honking] thats why my build back better plan is with a simple concept. Its time to reward work with a big wall street firm called moodys, democratic think tank, they did and an analysis 7 million more than the president s economic plan. It would generate economic growth. Everybody does better. That is the gods truth. Beep your horn because you are going to get a tax raise. If you are making over 400. Look, you are not going to pay a penny more. Tens of millions or going to get a tax cut when they needed the most. Raising their kids and trying to get affordable healthcare, saving for retirement but im going to ask big corporations to begin to pay their fair share. I want to raise back for Corporate America. If we just raise the tax back to what it should be, that generates over 100 billion. 1. 3 trillion that is what it raises to help hardworking folks to invest in working people and grow the middle class and make sure everybody comes along this time. My plan will create a million good paying jobs and technologies that we need now and in the future. We are not investing in the research. It starts with a pretty basic idea. The federal government every year since 600 billion just making sure that we have ships and planes, cars, trains, all the things the government must contract for. But i promise you this. Every single product. Every single contract led will be led to a company or firm that makes it in america. [cars honking] using the by america product and support american jobs, invest to build more, roads, bridges, ports, 1. 5 million new Affordable Housing units, highspeed broadband in every american household, more important than ever, we will bring rebuild the schools with 4 million buildings. And whether there is 2 million creating 1 million new jobs the reason everyone went to strongly supporting this. It will be done by certified union labor. When the president put me in charge of that 800 billion, not one single contract went out that wasnt preventing, not one. I promise you i will stand up to chinas abuses in the best in the American Worker nobody cannot tell company an American Worker when they got a fair shot one more thing United States government owns and maintains these vehicles be will convert these electric vehicles and they still need to build these transmissions for a long time to come in and uaw uaw the government provides and demand support to read to a factories that are struggling to compete. He was Auto Industry will step up. I will expand capacity so the United States, not china leads the world with new technology will make it easier for American Consumers and with those across the country and with the fuelefficient cars and move in a direction that technology is taking us to make sure uaw leads the way and how we do it. [applause] together this will mean 1 million new jobs in the Auto Industry. Fox, this is an example the miners have been taken off the American People. As an economic crisis racial inequality and what is going on. Nothing nothing nothing is beyond the capacity of the United States of america the only country in the world to come out of every crisis stronger than when we went in because of the are never underestimate American People we can do anything we need to do nothing can stop us. Running as a part of a cover the senate and i will govern as an american president those voted for me as well as against me. We campaign what we are. The United States of america so vote, vote god bless you and god bless the autoworkers. Which i am i going . They say to me joe lee, to keep the faith. She said notes better. With when this thing