Lower access to quality treatment when they are infected, and tragically, higher mortality rates. One in 1000 black americans have died from this virus. This is a staggering statistic, and 57 of black adults, 46 of latino adults know someone who has died or been hospitalized by this disease. Folks, we have lost more than 220,000 lives in this virus already, but this administration has given up. Over the weekend, the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, went on television and admitted that they wave the white flag and declared surrender. He said, we are not going to control the pandemic. The American People deserve so much better than this. Look at what happened last night in omaha, after the trump rally ended. Hundreds of people including old americans and children were stranded in subzero freezing temperatures for hours. Several folks ended up in the hospital. Its an image that captured President Trumps whole approach this crisis. He takes a lot of big pronouncements, he makes a lot of big pronouncements, but they dont hold up. He gets his photo op, and then gets out. He leaves everyone else to suffer the consequence of his failure to make a responsible plan. It seems like he just doesnt care much about them. The longer he is in charge, the more reckless he gets. Its enough. Its time to change. Meanwhile, yesterday, the White House Science Office and this stunned me, put out a statement listing ending the covid19 pandemic is a top accomplishment of President Trumps first term. A top accomplishment of trumps first term. At the very moment when infection rates are going up in every state in our union. The refusal of the Trump Administration to recognize the reality we are living through, at a time when almost 1000 americans per day are dying, every single day, its an insult to every Single Person suffering from covid19 and every family who has lost a loved one. There is nothing more personal to American Families than their health care and the health care of their loved ones. I know all too well what it feels like to have your heart ripped out, losing a loved one too soon, to sit in a hospital bedside and feel there is a black hole in the middle of your chest with not much you can do. I and many of you know what it feels like to watch a beloved person die, lie there dying of cancer or some other disease without wondering having to wonder whether you can pay for the medical bills or what would happen, if god forbid, the Insurance Companies were able to say we will not cover the treatment. And yet, today, President Trump is on a singleminded crusade to strip americans of their health care. That would only create another enormous crisis in the Public Health system. In two short weeks, exactly one week after the election, the Trump Administration will make its case asking the Supreme Court to strike down the Affordable Care act in its entirety. Let me say that again. Their argument that the entire law must fall, which would strip 20 million americans of their health care overnight, rip away protections for preexisting conditions for more than 100 million people. In the middle of an upswing in a public pandemic, the upswing. Look, just this week, on 60 minutes, we heard what trump told lesley stahl about the upcoming Supreme Court case on the Affordable Care act, and i quote i hope that they end it. It will be so good if the end it. End of quote. There is no question, there is no question thats why President Trump nominated Justice Barrett to the court. Thats why the republicans jammed her through, the confirmation in the middle of an election. Republicans have tried and tried, since the Affordable Care act was passed, to overturn it, and every single time, they failed. President trump has tried everything he can on his own to sabotage the law. So now, to what i characterize as a blatant abuse of political power, they have added to the court a justice who criticized chief Justice Roberts previous decision to uphold the Affordable Care act in hopes they can destroy the Affordable Care act once and for all through the courts no matter how Many Americans they hurt in the process. Lets remember exactly whats at stake in the selection. In this election. If you have diabetes, asthma, cancer, or even complications from covid19, you will lose the protection this law provides. Insurers will once more be able to jack up your premiums or deny your coverage. Women could again be charged more for their Health Care Just because they are women. And children will no longer be able to stay on their parents insurance policies until age 26. On top of all that, overturning the aca could mean the people would have to pay to get covid19 vaccines once its available. Thats right. The law that says insurers require to cover the vaccine for free is the Affordable Care act, and hes attempting to strike that down. Unlike donald trump, i believe health care is a privilege, its a right that everyone have access to. This country cannot afford four more years of this president who thinks he is only responsible for the wellbeing of the people who voted for him. We cannot afford four more years of a president who instead of fighting the virus, attacked doctors. I cant get over this guy. He attacked doctors, claiming they are overreporting covid cases because they want to make more money. Doctors are overreporting cases because they want to make money. You know, our doctors, and nurses, and our Frontline Health care workers are putting themselves at enormous risk every day. More than 1000 of them have already died. In an attempt to beat back this pandemic and save lives. They deserve to be treated with respect by their president. We cannot afford four more years of a president who would rather spend his time desperately trying to strip people of their health care then even once than even once bother to put forward a Health Care Plan on his own. We cannot afford four more years of donald trump. The good news is, we have a chance to turn this around by voting. We have six more days until the election, and the American People have it in their hands to put this country in a vastly different path. This is my commitment to you i will protect and build on the Affordable Care act so you can keep your private insurance or choose a medicarelike option. You can make it stronger, i will make it stronger with your help to lower premiums and deductibles and outofpocket expenses. We will bring down drug prices to almost 2 3 of what they are by allowing medicare than to negotiate the pharmaceutical companies, making billions of dollars, making the price lower when they negotiate, medicare says we will only pay you x amount for the following medicines. That will lower prices drastically, making them available to everyone. We will make sure every american has access to free covid19 vaccines. This is not beyond our capacity. If we come together, we can stand together. If we stand together as a united states, the united states, democrats, republicans, and independents, we can transcend old divisions and show whats possible. There is nothing beyond our capacity. There is no limit to americas future. If im elected president , as i said yesterday in warm springs, georgia, i will be a president who is not in it for himself, but for others, a president who doesnt divide us, but unites us, a president who appeals not to the worst in us, but the best in us. A president who looks not to settle scores, but to find solutions. A president guided not by wishful thinking, but by science, reason, and facts. Even if i win, its going to take a lot of hard work to end this pandemic. Im not running on the false promise of being able to end the pandemic by flipping a switch. But when i can promise you is this we will start on day one doing the right things. We will let science drive our decisions. We will deal honestly with the American People, and we will never, ever, ever quit. Thats how we will shut down this virus so we can get back to our lives a lot more quickly than the pace we are going at now. Im going to fight to protect your health care, i promise you, just like i fight for my own family. We can do this, i promise you. And im going to go do what i hope all of you do, im going to walk out of this building and im going to go vote. Im going to go vote. There is a lot of people on the ballot, not just me, but the down ballot, as well. They will change things for us and make it better. May god bless you all and may god protect our troops. Thank you. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [indistinct speaking] [cheering] [cheering] joe biden we just voted. Jill is off to do an interview. Thank you for taking the time to cover it. What i say is that there is no excuse whatsoever for the looting and the violence, none whatsoever. I think, to be able to protest is totally legitimate, totally reasonable, but i think the looting as the victims father said, do not do this. It is not what my son you are not helping me. You are hurting me. You are not helping my son. There are things we will have to do to move along. The local folks are thiin