2020 president ial candidate joe biden talked to voters in iowa about his platform on agriculture and climate change. He was joined by a former agricultural secretary under the Obama Administration and former democratic governor of iowa. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Vice President joe biden joined by iowas own governor tom and christie vilsack. Thanks so much for coming out tonight. Merry christmas. Feliz navidad. Happy holidays, happy hanukkah. Its great to be here in perry again. The last time we were here with our family, it was the hottest week of july and we were riding our bicycles up from where we live and we stayed at the hotel. Ate good food and then got on our bikes and went back. Its nice to be here in december. Thank you again for coming out. And were Dallas County democrats, so were happy to be [applause] i met joe and jill biden 33 years ago when they came to iowa to campaign for president. I trust them as much today as i did then. Joe biden was rock solid. Go ahe
you! thank you! good to see you guys again! thank you for being here. god love you. i didn t expect you to be here. thank you so much. you are making me a hero in front of my life. this is myber the granddaughter, her name is ma biden, freshman at the university of pennsylvania. wondered if she would get scholarship offers and said, i am not going to play unless i can do the work. she really disappointed, she got a 3.9. god love her. [applause] this is my[applause] number two granddaughter, finnegan biden. she has campaigned with me a long time. she is a junior and also an honor student at university of pennsylvania, and she s crazy about me. this is my son, bo biden s daughter, and believe it or not, she is on the internet grade. the reason i am running for president is because i want secret service again, so they travel with her wherever she goes. [laughter] this is the life of my love, my oldest daughter named after my deceased daughter miami. she is in columbia law scho
joe biden! ! joe biden! [cheers and applause] mr. biden: thank you! thank you! good to see you guys again! thank you for being here. god love you. i didn t expect you to be here. thank you so much. you are making me a hero in front of my granddaughters. i want you to meet my granddaughters, everybody. these are the loves of my life. this is my number three granddaughter, her name is ma biden, freshman at the university of pennsylvania. wondered if she would get scholarship offers and said, i am not going to play unless i can do the work. she really disappointed, she got a 3.9. god love her. [applause] this is my[applause] number two granddaughter, finnegan biden. she has campaigned with me a long time. she is a junior and also an honor student at university of pennsylvania, and she s crazy about me. this is my son, bo biden s daughter, and believe it or not, she is on the internet grade. the reason i am running for president is because i want secret service again, so the
Ideas, someone with the courage to stand up for whats right even when its not yet popular. None of us has all the answers to all of the problems we face. None of us can predict the future. But i can promise you this i can govern. I can lead. And i can do so with heart and with skill. A lot of people tell me in this race, they say, man, youre up against tough odds, this is a tough fight. And there are also a lot of people who would look you eye n the eyes and would tell you that youve got a tough fight being able to pass on to your churn a better quality of life than what youve enjoyed. Well, you know what . I kind of like the tough fights, ive always been drawn to the tough fights. [ cheers and applause ] and perhaps its the toughness of the fight thats the way the hidden god has of telling us that we are worth fighting for something worth save. The American Dream is worth saving. Our country is worth saving. Our planet is worth saving. It is time to stand up. It is time to join the fi
United states. I intend to win and i need your help. [applause] gov. Omalley as i was driving down here, to des moines, i could not help but to think about the first time i came to iowa and it was some 20 i was 20 years old, and there is a president ial campaign coming. Me and my buddies, about five of us, piled into a car and we wanted to come out here to work for our underdog, upstart candidate, because we knew that this is where it starts, here in iowa, and we wanted to change the world. They dropped me off at 6 00 a. M. At the Greyhound Bus terminal in davenport, iowa. [applause] gov. Omalley i had nothing but my parka, my guitar, and a duffel bag full of winter clothes. But it was over this next several months that i fell in love with iowa and the people of iowa, and i thank you all for what you do for our country every president ial election. [applause] gov. Omalley what i have found to be the most enjoyable part of running for president is this, that i get to meet young people w