Service by your television provider. Joe biden host an early vote of them a china how neighborhood of las vegas, haunted by a Group Promoting asianamericans and Pacific Islanders in politics. This is about 25 minutes. Your patience exceeds your good judgment. Thank you very much, gary. Gary and my family and i have become good friends. We have had the most diverse cabinet in american history. I think we had the best cabinet in american history. I listened to you when you spoke. I was astounded. You asked your husband to marry you. I just want you to know, i had to ask my wife, jill, five times to marry me. Not a joke. Five times. Finally, i said, and you will appreciate this because we are all from immigrant paths. My mother would say they got my irish up. I came back from south africa trying to see Nelson Mandela and getting arrested for trying to see him on robyn island. When i came back, the first thing i did, i landed in philadelphia. I went back to her apartment in wilmington, delaware. She was teaching. I knocked on her door. She said, come on in. I said, im not coming in. I said, youre finally got my irish up. Here is the deal. Im going to ask you one more time. You do not have to tell me when, just if you will marry me. I said, will you marry me . She went like this. Ok. My sister asked my sister valerie i asked her, he asked her, what made you change your mind . I fell in love with the boys. I had my two boys. She said, i fell in love with the boys. I envy your husband notwithstanding. I know what it is like to lose a spouse. God love you. Thank you. I did not know she was coming, but i want to introduce you to a relative of ours from ireland. I did not know she was going to be here. Her name is lorena blewitt. Y mothers name was blewitt my fathers name was finnegan. One was from county mayo in ireland. The other was from the irish sea. During the terrible potato famine when the british were doing very bad things to the irish at the time, not a joke, my great great grandfather got on a ship in 1842 and headed with several of his family members, i believe illegally, to louisiana. Famine when the britie doing very bad things to the irish at the time, not a joke, new orleans. Made his way north. Where are you sitting . Are you out there somewhere . There she is. By the way, we caught up i have been to ireland many times. We caught up when barack obama the equivalent of the Prime Minister kept saying, let joe come to ireland. We want to give him 100,000 welcomes. I went to ireland and i found out although i have been there many times, i had never met my family. In heads up a hospice ireland. They just dedicated a 4 million facility to my deceased son who died of cancer. Thank you for being here. [applause] Vice President biden the reason i bothered to tell you that is because gary is talking of families. It has always been about family. Not a joke. It has always been about family. Each of your families when they decided to get on a boat or a plane or however they got here and head of to the United States, they did not know what was going to happen. They were not at all certain things would be all right. But they had the courage and the tenacity and the resilience and the optimism to think they could make it, that they could do it. I was in Southeast Asia not long ago. Actually, i was meeting with a group of leaders. I said to them, the reason why america is who we are is because we have been able to cherry pick the best and i mean this sincerely we are the most unique country in the world because we have been able to cherry pick the best from every continent and culture. The people who come are people who are resilient. People who have courage. People who are ready to work and work and provide for themselves and their families. That is who we are, truly. [applause] Vice President biden we are a nation of immigrants. The idea this president and many of his cohorts treat this like it is a problem imagine what we would be if we did not have immigration. I spent a lot of time when i was Vice President with japan and i had a lot of discussions with mr. Abe. In japanese culture, and a woman is well educated and marries and has children, she is encouraged to stop engaging in the workforce. Because we are the most open country in the world, we do not have a problem with workforce replacement. That is one of our strengths because people keep coming. An awful lot of nations are more xenophobic. They dont want outsiders coming in. So what is happening . I came back from japan, i said, mark my words. They are going to change their policy just like china is going to change their policy about one child. They are going to have more people in china retired then all the people who work. They cannot sustain it. So what did they do . They did away with the one child policy. That no longer exists. Japan, my generic point is, the United States is the most unique country in the world. We are a product of an idea. You cannot define an american for me. You cannot define one based on ethnicity, race, national origin. It is an idea. The idea we decided that we hold these truths to be selfevident that all men, women are created equal. It sounds corny, but it is true. We the people come in order to form a more perfect union. No nation in history has ever been organized based on an idea. You can define almost every other nation based on ethnicity or tribe. But not america. That is why we are who we are. This guy in the white house has no idea of it. Zero. [applause] Vice President biden i want to say a couple things quickly. The fact is that the support of your community has been incredible. As soon as this is over, they are going to march me to the door. We are going to have one of the people im going to shake hands with every single one of you. We have not heard from 99 of the aapi community. We have not heard from 99 of the africanamerican community. We have not heard from 99 of the hispanic or latino community. The idea that we are going to decided nomination before we have heard from all of those folks is ridiculous. The fact is that everyone is going to get a chance to vote and vote early here in this state. The fact is, that is why barack and i i call him barack because i do not want to confuse him with that other guy who is the president. That is why we took the community so seriously. We appointed more aapi judges to any timeal bench than in history. More aa pi women than any administration combined. We expanded opportunities throughout the community. And we finally provided compensation for filipino war veterans of world war ii, which was long overdue. But we got it done because we understand who we owe debts of gratitude to. Most people only think about latino immigrants when we talk about dreamers. Daca offered opportunity to thousands and thousands of aapi dreamers as well. My plan is going to legalize dreamers and include a road to citizenship for undocumented People Living in the United States, contributing every day, and coming out of the shadows. By the way, gary, i have proposed we not only deal with the 800 to 200,000 we should be able to increase to 3 Million People the people who can come for family unification. Period. I think about it. Think about it. This is a big, strong, vibrant country. The idea we cannot reunite more families is absolutely bizarre. It is what makes us strong. It is the web that holds us together. The university of Las Vegas Nevada las vegas uses the grant money we supply to students for 4000 aapi students. The idea there is some limitation on the capacity of the immigrants in this country is absolutely bizarre. Critically through the Affordable Care act, we cut in half the number of uninsured in the aa pi community. That is why i am fighting so hard to protect obamacare and build on it and not tear it down and start over. Like trump wants to wipe it out and some of my colleagues in the Democratic Party want to do. 20 million americans. 20 million americans have gained coverage under obamacare. 2 million in the aapi community. 100 Million People. In fact, in this United States of america, a million had preexisting conditions where they could not get coverage. A child with asthma or some other problem. You could not afford the insurance. Not any longer. I was stunned to find out two weeks ago donald trump said the reason we have preexisting conditions covered is because of him. Whoa. Conditions covered is because of him. He is a preexisting conditn we have to take care of. [applause] Vice President biden i am taking too much of your time. I apologize. There is so much to say, so much to do. So many good friends to do it with. Everybody knows who donald trump is. We have to let him know who we are. We have to, in the process, restore decency and honor. The reason why america has been able to lead the world is not because we are the most powerful military in the history of the world. It is the idea, not the power of military, but the power of our example that has caused the rest of the world to repair to us. You talk to people from where you have emigrated. What are they asking you . What is happening in america . What is going on . What has changed . Ladies and gentlemen, we are reducing our standing in the world in a matter of years unlike any time in american history. We have to reestablish the decency and honor about who we are. Everybody knows who donald trump is. Even his supporters do not want their kids to grow up like him. I am not being a wise guy. I am being deadly earnest. We thought there is a basic american code of honesty, decency, leaving no one behind, treating everyone with dignity. Giving hate no safe harbor. That is who we have been. Look at how it has changed so rapidly. Folks we have to let them know , who we are. We have to show who we are. What im going to make sure we do is we choose hope over fear. We choose science over fiction. We choose unity over division. We choose compassion over cruelty. Chooset importantly, we truth over lies. It is time for us to get up. This is the United States of america. We have never set a goal we have been unable to accomplish when we have done it together. We are going to be together when i am president. We are going to take back this country, and become the envy of the world again. God bless you. May god protect our troops. [applause] thank you for joining us tonight. We are not done yet. Now comes the most important part. We need all of you to head over to the chinatown mall to cast your ballot. 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