Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your congressman, matthew cartwright. [applause] mr. Cartwright thank you. Love you back. Is this thing on . You know what . To the senior high school, everybody. I want to take the liberty to give a few shot out. I want to thank the principal, john haas. [applause] mr. Cartwright and the superintendent, kevin rose. The principal and superintendent, there is no guarantees that we are not going to damage her high school tonight. [laughter] mr. Cartwright seriously, i want to make another shout out and it is somebody i have admired for a long time. Somebody whose presence tonight let you know that you are at a special event. It is former first lady of pennsylvania, ellen casey. [applause] mr. Cartwright she is pretty important. But then, there is my wife. Cartwright. [applause] mr. Cartwright we have this election coming up, right . I have a question for you. Are there any democrats in the house . [cheering] mr. Cartwright democrats, democrats. We have a job to do, dont we . We have to get out there and remind people what we are about, dont we . I am going to ask you a series theuestions and this is answer it is democrats. Who is it that sticks up for the regular working people of this country . The democrats, that is right. Who always has . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright who sticks up for seniors . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright and children . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright and the disabled . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright and the environment . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright clean air . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright who sticks up for labor rights in this country . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright who got the kids out of the mines . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright who invented Workplace Safety . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright how about Social Security . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright costofliving increases . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright how about keeping medicare from turning into some kind of Coupon Program . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright and expanding medicaid some of people can be covered, who . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright thats right, it is the democrats, thats who. [applause] say smile ift i you are a democrat because we did these things for this country. We stuck up for all of these things. Who stuck up for civil rights in this country . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright and Voting Rights . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright the right for our lgbt friends . We were the ones who did that when the needle moves. Who moves the needle . Democrats. Mr. Cartwright be proud of yourselves and realize as democrats i see a lot of you. You are my family. I am proud of you. [applause] because in the end, it is not about us, it is not about the officeholders and the high exalted positions that we have. It is about none of that it is about sticking up for the people. Who does that . The democrats. Mr. Cartwright the democrats do that. Dont ever forget. We kind of hell down on the job a couple of years ago, didnt we . We are not going to do that this week, are we . We are going to get the vote out. We are going to fight for the people. We are going to fight the rights that we talked about. We are going to fight for the regular working people of this country because it is not about the officeholder. Yes, you have to reelect tom walked and this wonderful senator, bob casey. Giveu think of it, cartwright a vote, wil yl you . [applause] because if you get me reelected, remember what is at stake. You know who might win back the house of representatives this fall . The democrats. The democrats. The democrats. The democrats. To say job number one, when the democrats win back the house of representatives on tuesday, job number one when we swear in a new congress is a Real Infrastructure bill. Yes. Not one of these phony, bologna, the federal government pays for 20 and the rest of you can go scratching for the 80 . A Real Infrastructure bill done with regular appropriations and hearings and unlike ed where we can see were the money is coming from and where it is going. That the people actually doing the work are treated right and paid fairly. Yes. [applause] mr. Cartwright we are going to do that. The Democratic House of representatives and senator bob casey in the senate, we will put a Real Infrastructure bill on the president s desk and he will have to sign it because it is the right thing to do for america if we believe in this country. I humbly ask your support in my reelection on tuesday. Next, it is my honor and my absolute privilege to introduce your next speaker. This man is a man you all know. He knows you. It is a man who is our senior senator from pennsylvania and the united date senate, someone who has been fighting for seniors and children and people with disabilities, workers, everybody that we care about, for civil rights and Voting Rights and all of the things democrats hold as core values, it is a man who has in a champion for these things. He has been recognized as a National Leader for children with disabilities. [applause] rep. Cartwright this is a man who has had our back ever since he got down to washington and before that. A man whose life has been about public service. A man whom i regard as a dear friend. Lets get him appear. Senator bob casey. Bob casey. Senator casey thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. First of all, lets hear it for matt cartwright. [applause] senator casey now i know you will give him a great vote on while you are giving him a good vote, give me some. I want to thank this high school and all the people here who made the visit possible. Before i get to remarks, because i know some people were here to see me but there might be a few more people here to see Vice President joe biden. He is in the building. I want you to let him know how much you want to hear from him. Lets hear it for Vice President joe biden. [applause] [cheering] [chanting] senator casey pretty good. I know that we did not even practice that. I do want to say how much we appreciate, i know earlier in the program, john was here as well. Holly delaney. Representative mike. And so many others were here with us tonight. I want to tell you how much i appreciate you being here tonight on the eve of an election. I know a lot of people said, when they say this is the most important election of our lifetime, they always say that. Here is the truth, the way i see it. This is without a doubt, the most important Midterm Election of my lifetime. We have so much at stake. So much at stake for the middleclass bank middleclass, for those trying to climb to get the middleclass, so much at stake for the vulnerable when you consider what could happen to medicare and medicaid and a lot of other programs. And a lot is at stake for the american worker. Put up your hand, and i can see most of the audience here, if you are a member of organized labor, thank you for being here. Thank you for being here. So much is at stake. For our veterans. Put your hand up if you are a veteran. Thank you for your service. Thank you. I just want to make a comment about health care and then i want the Vice President to come up on stage. My race has been defined by one big issue, health care. There are so many people in this county and this region that had Health Care Coverage solely because we have the guts and the determination to pass the Affordable Care act. You made that possible. Heres the latest number. Want you to know the exact number. In a lot of parts of our country, this number is down during the administration. There are still big numbers. Pennsylvania, 30,000. 30 30,368 people of health care. County, 20,264. In just two counties in northeastern pennsylvania, more than 50,000 people have health care. We will make sure they have health care tomorrow, next week, next month next year, and the next 50 years. We will fight for that. And you know what . Some republicans in washington, where all of a sudden, they really care about preexisting conditions. Isnt that nice question mark and why didnt they vote that way when it was on the line . Right . I am someone who has worked with a lot of republicans are a lot of big issues. The most important disability bill, whether it was to continue the good work of Vice President biden when he passed years ago and then reauthorize over and over again the violence against women act. We added to that. I like working when i can with republicans. Im pretty good at it. A lot of bills passed with republican help. They seem to be unwilling to work with us on health care. I would rather work with them to lower the cost of health care or prescription drugs. But if they want to continue to fight about this issue and continue to try and decimate the medicaid program, the kids and seniors with disabilities, if they will continue to attack and try to defund medicare over time, remember what the House Republicans did just this year in may of 2018, june to be exact, they passed a 10 year budget that will cut the medicare program. I will say again, the medicare program. More than 70,000 people, thank god, have medicare in this county. Republicans in the house want to cut that by 537 billion over 10 years. No senator casey we will stop them from doing that. That is what we are going to do. [applause] senator casey so, we have got some battles ahead. Here is what i would like to say as i introduce the Vice President. No public official i know has been a stronger advocate for people without a voice, for workers, kids, seniors. No one i know has been a stronger advocate. No one i know in public life in all of the time i have been in washington and before, has been a stronger advocate for those who need someone to stand up for them. There is a great anthem for our country, america the beautiful. Remember one of those lines, a beautiful line about a patriot, o beautiful, for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years. That is what a patriot is pierce someone who sees beyond the years, whether it is supporting men and women in the uniform, whether it is supporting veterans, helping our kids, helping working families, standing up for workers when they needed and assist. Joe biden has been doing this for all of these years. We claim him as our own, a son of northeastern pennsylvania who never forgot where he came from. We are so happy he is here tonight. Vice president joe biden. [applause] vice pres. Biden hello, lucerne county. It is good to be almost home. Folks, my name is joe biden. We love you. Vice pres. Biden when you say run, joe, run, it brings back memories of being at the top of 5th street in scranton. In the old days when i had to run, it was run away from a fight. Im staying. Im not running. Folks, the bidens and the finnegans and the caseys and the cartwrights are families that go back a long way. In some cases, before i was even a kid. I lived on North Washington avenue. Bobby and i trying to figure out, mom, about five blocks from your home. Went to the same church, st. Pauls, then sinclairs. And we learned our values, bobby and me, at our kitchen tables. Me at my grandfathers table at 2446 North Washington and i think bobby at his father and familys kitchen table. I campaigned, which was a great privilege, got elected when i was 29 years old. One of the first outofstate campaigns i spent time campaigning was for governor casey. At that time it was the senate race. It was a bad year. And i got to meet ellen casey. I think bobbys mother, my word as a biden, is one of the finest women i have ever met in my entire life. [applause] and bob will tell you, as we used to say in the senate, if you excuse a point of personal privilege, there was only one exception my mother. The granddaughter of one of the first Irish Catholics ever elected to the state senate in pennsylvania who was elected in 1904. Bobbys entire family is here. His wife tracy, who i love carolina and julia. All of them are here. I know matts family, too. Both sides. Marion has the better part. Only kidding. Got that right. Vice pres. Biden and theyre all good people. And they have the same value set in lackawanna county, the core of where i grew up simple value set treating people with dignity. Both these men have what is desperately needed right now and is not hyperbole. They have great character. [applause] vice pres. Biden more impressive, personal and political records. Men of honor. They are men of their word. When they tell me they are going to do something and they half when we Work Together for years, i know, i know ill not get what happens today, everything is relative today. Someone makes a commitment and say i will be there for you and when the time comes and realizing its hard, i did not know it was going to cost me this. I did not know this was the way it was going to be. I cant be there. These guys do exactly what they say. Folks, tuesday is election day, theres Something Different about this is election, as bobbys already said, something fundamental. Pretty profound. Ive traveled, as you can tell by my voice to 22 states and campaigned for 63 candidates. [applause] vice pres. Biden and in the last six days alone i have been in now 15 towns and cities. And everywhere i go, theres an i i mean this sincerely, democrats i do what they call otrs, off the record stops, i stop into diners and churches [indiscernible shout] vice pres. Biden but among democrats, republicans, independents, think about this the republican, there is an insatiable desire for women and men with character to occupy high public office. [applause] vice pres. Biden folks, this is not your fathers Republican Party. This isnt the Republican Party any of you grew up with. As all three of us, if you notice any time there is trouble with our administration, i would be the guy that would go on capitol hill, because i have so Many Republican friends for real. I do not think there was a republican senator that did not treat me with respect and i have never misled them. Ive never question their motive. I question their judgment. When you question judgment, as matt knows, you can reach an agreement. Your question somebodys motive and you can never get to go. And the only reason we were able to do anything in america as we arrived a consensus. That is why they are both so good at what they do. They are respected on both sides of the aisle. But here is something new. The very character of our country is on the ballot. And really, all the world is looking. And all the world, america is unique because we were not organized on ethnicity on a religion or tribe but on ideals. American ideals. Thats what organized us as a nation. Fairness, decency, respect, giving everyone of gods children a fair shot. Tuesday. [applause] vice pres. Biden tuesday. They are asking us to stand up for these american ideals again. Others do not see it that way, this new Republican Party. They see something much different and darker. Now, remember, no clapping. Just listen to me for this one. Listen to the way they speak and campaign. They seem to believe that shared American Values are some form of outdated political correctness. And committing to something bigger than ourselves is naive. Were suckers. That facts are relative. But thats not what built america, that is not what made us the greatest nation of all time on earth. America was built by leaders who had integrity and empathy for others. Think about this. Have you heard any words of empathy from a republican . I really mean it. It matters. It matters. Leaders like our military who left no one behind. The people that built america are leaders who gave hate no safe harbor. David brooks, a conservative columnist, says these ideals, he calls them the invisible more fabric that holds society together, and he says they are being shredded in this administration. Those values are being shredded. I wrote a year ago, i come out when i moved from scranton to wilmington, delaware, i only knew two africanamericans in scranton. Delaware has the eighth largest black population in america. To our shame, we were segregated by law, we were a slave state. We fought beside the north but we were socalled border state like maryland and others. So, i come out of that. That is what got me engaged in public life. I wrote a year ago, after the horrific events in charlottesville, that we are the battle over the americas soul. And i really mean it. It is not just me. Read john meachams new book. The soul of america. We watched white supremacist, cook looks clean, david duke, the neonazis carrying torches and chant the same hateful bile we heard on the streets of europe in the 30s. When the president of the alt right assigned a moral equivalence between those dark forces and those opposing them, that was like pouring fuel on the fire of intolerance. And just look, we saw the first came quickly. Pipe bombs sent to me and some of my friends and my granddaughters could have picked up. Two americans, africanamericans, killed in a supermarket in kentucky because they are black. 11 jews killed in a synagogue i know well in pittsburgh. And all the vileness in one week. Folks, our children are listening. Theyre watching. So, the words of our leaders do matter. And silence is complicity. Silence is complicity. [applause] vice pres. Biden and, folks, we will not be silent. And we will not be complicit. As democrats, as democrats in this fateful election we have a single moral responsibility to confront and defeat those forces who are trying to divide us, not only for our own sake but the sake of our children. We cant, we have to stop their march. We have to stop their march. We can finish the job barack and i started. We can restore the basic economics in this country. This vilenessp and restore the bargain twoedged democrats and republicans used to subscribe, that built the middle class. Heres what we have to do to restore and protect the bargain. Jobs, decent jobs. My dad, when we moved from scranton, because there was no a job isof delaware, about a lot more than a paycheck, he said. Its about your dignity, your honor and place in the community. Its about looking at your child in saying, honey, its going to be ok, and mean it. It starts with the right to bargain for your own work. [applause] stop stealing over time from fromy wages, cut 1,400,000,000 last year. Since itods sake, lent republicans against Building Infrastructure . We rank 29th in the world on infrastructure. This is the United States of america. The second thing we have to do, we have to have access to affordable and continued education. We need to reimagine. [applause] we have to reimagine the Education System for the 21st century. Educate through post high school. Does anyone think 12 years in 2020 and 2030 to have a decent job in america . We have to as printer ships, Affordable Community college. How can you live a middleclass life, as my dad dead and so many others appear did, staring at the ceiling at night thinking, if i get sick, the kids, we lose everything . Affordable health care for families. Millions of americans [applause] mr. Biden millions of americans understand what that means. It means you dont have to stare at the ceiling and wonder. I love these guys, i dont even know them but i love them. They opposed the Affordable Care on the road to damascus, they had a conversion. [laughter]. Hey still vote the wrong way they oppose keeping your children on your insurance policy until age 26. As unbelievable as it is, they oppose mandating insurance cover preexisting conditions to the harm of 4. 5 million pennsylvanians. Be,ad as all of this could republicans want to go beyond. Even the republicans i worked with 30 years ago did not do this. The ultimate target of this new Republican Party is to eviscerate the two most important programs, thatll allow the ellerslie to retire for a decent elderly to retire for a decent life. Medicaid and Social Security. They have been trying to cut these for years. Now because of the horrendous tax bill, it is not just unfair, aliened 1 trillion 900 more than 1ed trillion to the debt. Any professor at a university can tell you we cant carryicantly we can that debt without significantly affecting american growth. We have to cut the deficit and look at where they are pointing their hatchets. As bobby pointed out, they have overdy put in the budget, half 1 billion in medicare cut. Heres the deal. Means, whathis uncertainty it causes just thinking it might happen. Think of what it does. , they hadand my dad Social Security and they had medicare. Then the majority leader, senator mcconnell, just made it very clear [boos] he did us a favor because he was the only one who was let out honest. Flatout honest. He said that they would have to make even more cuts to medicare and Social Security. Listen to their opponents on that as well. Everything from cost of other things. Not if i have anything to say about it. You need them both their. There. Not a joke. We desperately need this to keep it from happening. If we dont win back the house, this is going to become law. If i told you they were going to pass that cockamamie tax bill, if i told you they would do some of the stupid things they have done, you would think, no, no one would do that. I promise you. Im going to Say Something outrageous. I think i know the Senate Better than anybody living because i spent so much time there. Folks, they mean it. Heres the deal. We can take care of this. Am an optimist i think it is because im from northeast pennsylvania. Is, the United States of america right now is better positioned than any nation in the world to lead the world in the 21st century. Weve got the largest economy in the world. We are energy independent. The Strongest Military in the history of the world. The finest Research Universities in the entire world. The most productive workforce, three times as productive as they are in asia, by the way. [applause] and the most agile venture capitalist. This is not hyperbole. No other nation in the world can match us. I have spent more time with xi jinping in china than any world leader. He would trade places in a heartbeat. They dont have enough energy. They dont have enough water. A half 1 trillion project to change the direction of a river. They are Walking Around with masks in beijing because they are Walking Around with four times the rate of lung cancer. Competition, if we remember who we are . There is nothing beyond our capacity. Strong enough to tear apart america is america itself. We have seen it start. We have to stop it. Thats what this is about. [cheers and applause] mr. Biden we have to make clear that democrats choose hope over fear. Democrats choose unity over division. Must importantly, we choose truth overlies. Over life. [applause] mr. Biden if we do that, we can still own the 21st century, and this country has to come together. Its time to get up and remember who the hell we are. This is america. Together, we can take it back god bless you all, and may god protect our troops. [applause] thank you. Thank you. The former Vice President joe biden in scranton, pennsylvania with the bob casey, who is seeking reelection, challenged barletta. Thislou event took place yesterday evening in the final public event for the former Vice President in his hometown. He served in the u. S. Senate representing delaware, first elected in 1972. We wanted to share this story thats getting a lot of attention. The early voting from politico. Com pointing out that a staggering 36 Million People have voted early, setting the stage for a big midterm turnout. Does this help the democrats, the republicans, or is this simply individuals casting their ballot early because of other obligations . Just one of the things to keep in mind as returns come in tomorrow evening. We will have live coverage of the results, speeches, the balance of power 8 00 tomorrow evening and into the Early Morning wednesday, and back with washington journal in the morning. We will be back on cspan with losers. Ers and judy is joining us on the democrats line from bismarck,