Id like to thank you very, very much. And is the source family here . Anyone from the as they say in part of my city, your family done good. Long, long time, isnt it. God love you. Well thank you for taking the time to be here. I really do appreciate it. Today unfortunately america is going to have to speak to this quickly, going to reach a tragic milestone. 200,000 deaths recorded as of today because of the coronavirus. 200,000 deaths. All across this nation. And it means there are empty chairs in dining room and kitchen tables. But weeks and months ago were filled with a love one, a mom, a dad, a brother, a sister. In many cases, the pain was made a lot worse because, and ive had people tell me this and close family, Close Friends of the family tell me, because they were unable to visit thur elderly parent or grandparent in a nursing home just before they passed away. Dont know how many stories ive heard about a from nurses saying they held up a cell phone to the patient on a ventilator in the bed about to pass, mr. Mayor. And that is all they could speak to. And, so, the fact that people werent able to hold Funeral Services where family and friends could pray together and place them in the hands of god. And so many of the rituals weve come to help us cope with pain and loss, to help us honor the lives of those we loved, to help us come to closure, just arent available in the middle of this pandemic. What worries me now is weve been living with this pandemic for so long, i worry were risking becoming numb to the toll that it is taken on us and our country and communities like this. We cant let that happen. We cant lose the ability to feel the sorrow and the loss and the anger for so many lives lost. We cant let the numbers become statistics, background noise. Just a blur that we see in the nightly news. 200 moms, dads, sons, daughters, grandparents, uncles, aunts, friends, coworkers who are no longer with us. And so many of them didnt have to lose their lives to this virus. Quite frankly, if only the president had acted sooner. Back in may, Columbia University released a study that said that if the president had acted just one week sooner, we would have saved 36,000 lives. Today, the leading model being used to track the virus, one which the white house and many others rely on, that model said between now and the end of this year, while were waiting for a vaccine, between now and the end of the year, were going to lose up to 200,000 additional lives. It ranged from 178,000 to 200,000. And it points out as well that if we act, by doing what youre doing here in wisconsin, Wearing Masks and making minimum requirements to meet this, we could save, we could save over 115,000 of those lives so i hope to were not learn the same bad lesson we learned the first nine months. Due to Donald Trumps lies and incompetence in the past six months weve seen one of the gravest losses of American Life in history. In history. Which sadly is not over. As awful as the past 180 days have been, the next 90 days could be twice as bad. Just pause and think about it. We could be looking, as i said, between 178 and 200,000 lives lost and all of the president does is deliberately change the subject. Which is especially infuriating once again being told that we could save lives, this time as many as 110,000 lives if we just take a simple steps, chief among them Wearing Masks, and still the president refuses. In fact, we just watched him hold an indoor rally with thousands of people. Many of whom werent Wearing Masks despite the clear evidence that were putting every one of those peoples lives at risk. The president knew of these dangers back in february. And he hid it from the American People. You could actually hear his own voice recorded by Bob Woodwards interview with him saying he understood how bad it was. We hear him privately saying this is a deadly virus, far more deadly than any flu, but thats not what he was saying to us publicly. Publicly he told us that it was just like the flu and it would disappear in the warm weather like it was all a lie. He knew it. What is his explanation. He said he didnt want to see the American People panic. Didnt want to panic them. Trump panicked. The virus was too big for him. All his life donald trump has been bailed out of any problem he faced. And with this crisis, a real crisis, a crisis that required serious president ial leadership, he just wasnt up to. He froze. He failed to act. He panicked. And america has paid the worse price of any nation in the world. Still, we support and understand what donald trump was saying. And by the way, the American People dont panic. We dont panic. Understand what he was saying. Because it crystalized his whole world view. When donald trump said he didnt create a panic, he wasnt just talking about a health panic. He was focused on the stock market. Trump was worried that if he told the public the truth, there could be a panic in the financial markets. And that would hurt his chances of being reelected. Thats how donald trump views the world. He sees the world from park avenue. I see it from where i grew up in a town like this from scranton, pennsylvania. Hard scrap, hard working town, just like this and so many more across wisconsin. When i look at the world from i look at the world from pack avenue, basically all you can see is wall street. And you think wall street built this country. Let me tell you, you think that donald trump, as donald trump does, that handing out a 101. 5 trillion tax giveaway, primarily for large corporations and wealthy qualifiers is an economic plan. You think like trump that 15 an hour is too much for americas essential workers. You eliminate overtime pay for millions of American Workers. You try to take away health care from 20 million americans in the middle of this pandemic. Hes in court today trying to get that done. You try to take away protections for preexisting conditions for 130 million americans. You propose a plan that in order to make it look good, youre going to get a little bump in your pay because youre not going to take out with holding for your Social Security. But guess what, Social Security said if he does that, Social Security will be bankrupt by the middle of 2023. You might get that out of your paycheck, a little more in your paycheck, but, guess what . Go home and tell your mom and dad, say goodbye to Social Security they worked for their whole lives. You think being tough with china is a trade deal that opens the door to big banks to make money in china. That is basically all we got out of it. A lot of Dairy Farmers and farmers and manufacturing went under. But guess what . Starting a trade war that leads to a surge in farm bankrupts and american throws American Manufacturing into a recession. But you know what happened. I didnt know this at first. I couldnt understand why he was so excited about it. Americas bank, citibank got to open up in beijing. They werent able to before. Scuttled a deal to lower Prescription Drug prices. He apparently had a deal. But he wanted the pharmaceutical companies before they lowered the prices to do something that they thought was unethical. He asked them to send out 100 checks with his name on it to Social Security to the elderly saying that that is the down payment. They said were not going to do that. They werent going to do it so the deal fell apart. And now some 30 million americans are on unemployment. You think the way to get American Economy back on track is to give another gigantic multimilliondollar tax cut to the wealthy. And here is what theyre doing. The tax rate all of you pay in here is going to be higher than billionaires who make their money on investments. This is not an exaggeration. He wants to lower, again, costing 30 billion of the treasury, lower the Capital Gains tax to 15 . So while someone who makes their money off the market is paying the 15 rate, youre paying it at 24 , 26 , 28 , depending on your tax bracket rate. Its not right. Workers here play close to twice that amount. Close to 30 . s tax cut for the wealthy is going to cost billions of a dollars a year and whose hide does it come out of . It comes out of your hide. The simple truth is that donald trump ran for office saying he would represent the forgotten man and women in this country and then once he got in office he forgot us. Not only did he forget them, though, the trust, the truth is that he never really respected us very much. Oh, he loves his rallies. The next time you holds one, look closely. Trump keeps his distance from anyone in the rally. The folks who come are packed in tight as packed in tight as they can be, risking disease, mostly without masks. But not trump. He safely keeps his distance. A report couple of days ago came up, said no, no, got to keep your distance. I dont get close to these people. But he let everybody else in the crowd risk their life, but not him. And now we know what he really thinks of the people who come to his rallies from someone who saw it up close and wrote about it. Up close in the white house. The former employee said he calls his on supporters, quote, disgusting. Said one of the benefits of this pandemic is he doesnt have to shake hair hands. Doesnt have shake their hands. Thats a good thing about the pandemic. For trump, these rallies are about add ration and not republican. But dont kid yourself. This is a one way street. All the things that trump has said and done, nothing is more offensive than the way hes spoken about many of you and brave women and men who served the nation in uniform. Those who have given their lives and service in this nation. Its been confirmed by every t outlet that he referred to them as losers and suckers. Thats what trump calls those who served and made the ultimate sacrifice. Let me tell you something. My son, beau, served and volunteered to go to iraq for a year. Won the bronze star. Came home decorated. Came home with stage four glioblastoma and died of cancer. He wasnt a loser, wasnt a sucker. He was a patriot and all those people who womhom he served, volunteered. Patriots as well. Just like your sons and daughters and many of you, your moms and dads. Frankly, i have dealt with guys like trump my whole life. Guys who would look down on us because we didnt have a lot of money. Your parents didnt go to college. Guys who think theyre better than you. Guys who inherent everything they ever gotten in their life and squander it. Guys who stiff and squeeze electricians and plumbers and contractors working on their hotels and casinos and golf courses just to put a few more bucks in their pocket. Guys who do everything they can to avoid paying their taxes because they figure the rest of us, the little people, we can pick up the tab for the country. Do you have any doubt that the reason we havent seen trumps tax returns because they want to know what he paid . Weve only seen four trump tax returns in the last 45 years. And i dont think theres been in in the last ever since hes been running for president. He had to turn some them over to start a casino new jersey. Had to show his taxes and they show that he paid zero. Talked about the billion dollars. He paid zero. Nothing. Thats a fact. And when he was asked about it, you know what he said . This is why i really felt like guys like this. He said, it makes me smart. Im not a sucker. Why should i pay when i can figure my way out . Zero. Wall streets a long way from scranton, pennsylvania in here, but you get to see the world a little more clearly there. I grew up understand iing as i believe many of you did, wall street didnt build this country. The middle class built this country and unions built the middle class. Unions, union labor like the folks in this room. You know, ive learned a few simple lessons from my parents that ive never forgotten. One is from my mother. She used to say, this is the d gods truth. Joey, remember, nobodys better than you. But everyones your equal. Nobodys better, but everyones your quaequal. Pretty simple. Were all equal. The way i was raised, and we should be treated that way. I have to admit, i got my back up a little bit recently about something i saw and was on National Television about the race. I dont think they meant anything by it, but i dont think they knew how insulting it was. Joe biden will be only the first president if elected who didnt go to an Ivy League School in a long time. Like somehow, i didnt belong. How could a guy who went to a state school be president . My reaction has been the same my whole life. I have to admit it, im not proud of it, you know, you closed the door on me because you think im not good enough. Guess what. Im going to bust down that door. My guess is a lot of you feel the same way about a lot of slate youve had because of our standing, quote unquote. I say its about time that a state School President sat in the oval office because you know what, if im sitting there, youre going to be sitting there, too. Another lesson i learned from my dad. My dad lost a job when coal died up in scranton. We had to move. We had to go to my grand pop, his fatherinlaw, and say, can jean, my mom, can jean and the kids stay with you for about a year . Ill make it up to you. I got to move to delaware where theres a job. Im going to come home every weekend. Talk about pride. Well, he used to say joey, remember, a jobs about a lot more than your paycheck. Its about your dignity. Its about respect. Its about your place in the community. Its about being able to look your kids in the eye and say honey, its going to be all right. Dignity of work. What you do matters. You matter. Thats why i want to change the tax code. I dont want to punish anybody, but instead of just rewarding waelt in this country, its about time we start to reward work. Under my plan, nobody making less than 400,000 bucks, and i dont make it and you dont make it, i dont think, will see their taxes go up. But if you make more than 400,000, youre going to start to pay more. Not going to punish anyone. I just think about the times, its about time the wealthiest and biggest corporations, most profitable company, begin to pay their fair share. 90 of them paying zero. Making billions of dollars, they pay no tax at all. Zero. How can that be fair . President talks all the time about how great the economy is. Well, i dont know what you all think, but where i come from and a lot of places in this state sh its not so great. In the middle of this pandemic, now, billionaires in this country have seen their wealth increase by 800 billion. Let me explain that again. All the billionaires in america, during the pandemic, their net worth combined according to studies, have increased by 800 billion. And the rest of us, well, 30 Million People are unemployed. 20 million americans are at risk of lose iing their home because they cant find the rent payment. Seven plus million americans are working part time. Who want to work full time. Evictions are on the rise. And for a lot of families, the kids are at home, not in school. I believe its the working people of this country that need the tax break and under my plan, theyre going to get one. Whether youre buying your first home, paying for health care premiums, child care, caring for an ageing parent, youre going to be able to afford it. Ive said it many times during this pandemic. We need to do more than just praise our essential workers. We need to pay them. We need to make Health Care Affordable for every american. My plan will lower Prescription Drug costs by 60 . Going to make sure we keep protections for preexisting conditions. That obama and i put in place and make a lot more affordable to have that health care. Power labor unions in this country. Fair labor standard act didnt say in the 30s cant have labor unions, it said promote. I will. One more thing. Under my go back better plan, were not goonly going to build infrastructure in this country, were going to rebuild manufacturing in this country. And well do it by enforcing a real buy american plan. If you look, federal government has spent 600 billion a year in purchasing power that the federal government has ever year from tax dollars. And determines how its used. When im president of the United States, god willing, American Companies with American Workers building American Products using american supply chains are going to be the only ones who get the contracts. That means american aluminum for infrastructure. For developing more wind, solar and hydro electric power. We have one of the largest fleets in the world. Federal government. Were going to shift them all to ele electric vehicles and that means youre going to be buying lighter frames, for automobiles, they can reduce by 15 , ooen with a combustion engine. 1. 5 million affordable homes. Were going to build and this is going to require increased work a at home. Were going to make sure that we transfer 40 million buildings around america to make them weather resistant. So that they are, change the windows, the doors, the walls, the whole range. Building back better means fi firing up our shuttered foundries and forge ahead to a future thats truly made in america and i want to spend just a few moments talking about those who voted for donald trump last time. When i was out here in the administration, you voted for us and then a lot of people in this county changed and voted for trump last time. I know many of you are frustrated. Ang angry. You believe you werent seen. I get it. It has to change and i promise you this. I will do, it will change with me. You will be seen, heard and respected by me. This campaign isnt about just winning votes. Its about restoring the basic dignity that every worker reserves. Basic dignity that we all have without winning back the hearts and soul of america. Were not going to make it. Just a few days ago when i was asked about the death count approaching 200,000, the