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years] >> thank you, thank you. thank you for that introduction and rr story with us. so, did you all see joe last night? [cheers and applause] >> wasn't he on fire? [cheers and applause] >> i was so proud of him. you know, he gave such a strong speech and set out a clear vision of where we've been an where we're going. [cheers and applause] >> s home. as most of you know, i'm a philly girl. >> so i grew up in willow grove, just north of the city. and probably like most of you, i my summers watching the

phillies with my dad and in the fall and we were watching ot eagles. yes, and speaking of the eagles, can we give jason kelce a round of applause! we are going to miss him, aren't we? yeah. so last month, joe showed the world what i ■ie every day. it's what drew me to me when i met him 50 years ago. [laughter] at that time, he was a heartbroken father who endured unspeakable tragedy, but he was keeping it together for our family. the senator who put one foot in

front of the other because he knew his constituents were counting on him. the man who placed his faith in a power greater than himself because when you go through that type of pain, there's no choice but to recognize your powerlessness in the grace of god's providence. joe rebuilt our family with compassion, love and strength. and as your president, he has rebuilt our nation with that same■ character. [cheers and applause] >> joe knows how serious the stakes are in this election. courts that are stripping away our most basic freedoms, maga to

drag us back to a dark and dangerous place. [boos] >> frm exreesmists. we are the first generation in to give our daughters a country with fewer rights than we have. joe is working tirelessly to defend our freedoms, our future and our democracy. [cheers and applause] itragic events of the last several months on any american president, but i am so grateful that joeuring these uncertain times. [cheers andp' applause]

>> he isn't just the right person for this job, he is the only person for this job! [cheers and applause] >> joe wakes up every morning thinking about how he can make the lives of americans better. donald trump wakes every morning caring about one person and one person only, himself. [booing] >> he tears peopleown and pits us one another, he mocks women's bodies and devalues our existence. and here's the one thing that gets my philly up. as the daughter of a world war ii navy van and mother of an army soldier, donald trump insults our veterans and disparageses those who died in

war calling them losers and successor. how -- sukers. donald trump is dangerous to our women, f and we can't let him win. we can't we up the day after the election, like we did in 2016, future ahead of us thinking, oh my god, what just happened, what are we going to do now. no. we must meet this moment as if our rights are at stake, because th are. [cheers and applause] >> as if our democracy line.

because it is. we must re-elect joe biden and kamala harris. [cheers and applause] >> and that starts here in this room with all of you. so please help me welcome, my husband, the 46th president of the united states, joe biden! [cheers anë applause] president biden: i now.

go delco. i'm joe biden. i'm jill biden's husband. thank you for being here today, including something■k i keep saying we are related. representative, where are■ you are doing a hell of a job representing this district! [cheers and applause] >> if you are tired, you probably watched me last night. [cheers and applause] i got my usual warm reception in congressm march jour retaylor greene and i spoke about how far we have come and how much is at stake. folks, our freedoms are really

on the ballot. donald trump and maga republicans to take away our freedoms. guess what? we will not let him. we will not let him. [cheers and applause] last night, the same building where our freedoms came under assault on january 6, talked about another alabama, 14 months ago, she and her husband welcomed a baby girl thanks to i.v.f. and scheduled treatments to have a second child but the alabama supreme court shut down treatments, and overturning roe v. weighed and -- wadet she went through should never

have happened. you know why it happened? donal. he came to overturn roev.wade. he got his wish and states are passing bans, criminalizing doctors, forcing lap and incease victims forced to get care and maga republicans want to pass pa national been on the right to choose, period. take it seriously, folks. let me, this will not happen on my watch. [cheers and applause] the decision -- [crowd chanting "four more

years] >> the decision to overturn roe v. wade, women are not without electrical power. -- electoral way. those bragging about overturning roe v. wade have no clue about . no clue. they found out when it was on the ballot in 2022 and 2023 and will found out again in 2024. i■ mean this from the bottom of my heart and i thank vice president harris for leading on this issue and so many others. you know, in pennsylvania, i

have a message for you, send me to congress so i can support this right, i promise you we take back progress and restore roe v. wade as the l the land. hop hop -- [cheers and applause] >> i came to office have. i inherited an economy that was on the brink. we have a lord in american history. unemployment hit a 50-year low. 800,000 new manufacturing jobs and counting. [cheers and applause] where is it written that we can't be the manufacturing capital of the world again. wages are up and inflation is coming 3%. and made so much progress so now

let's talk about the future we can build because we have more to do. future was the days of the trickle down and the wealthy begito fair share, god love them. for example, americans pay more as pharmacist for prescription drugs. it's wrong. and i have been fighting the industry since i was in the senate for over 30 years. guess what? we're ending■é it. in the law i propose and sign, no one, not one republican voted for it and finally

big profit. look, i'm not stopping there. let's cap the cost of insulin at $35 every senior. and i finally beat phrma and medicare to negotiate just like the v.a. does for our military. this doesn't just save seniors money but cutting the deficit and give them the power to negotiate poisees and going to save taxpayers 200 billion and already saves off your taxes and medicare doesn't have to pay that bill. folks, starting next year, the bill i got passed for capping thcost f■or seniors at $2,000 for extensive cancer drugs even

if it cost, $10,000, 14,000 a year. and my goal next year, let's do it for all americans, all americans. let's cap prescription drug costs for all americans. the affordable care act is still a very big deal. over 100 million americans can no longer be denied health insurance because of pre-existing conditions. but donald- has announce head wants to repeal the affordable care act. his republican colleagues tried 49 other times since obamacare was passed. it's not going to happen on my watch. look, i'm also working to bring down the cost of housing. propoe to give americans $400 a month

over the next two years to put toward their mortgage if they are buying for home or if they're moving to a larger place because they're afraid they're going to lose the mortgage rate they have. but guess what. i can't guarantee you but i bet you, i bet you those rates come down more.t you that that little outfit that sets interest rates is going to come down. going to come down. folks, we're cracking down on big landlords who break antitrust laws by price fixing and driving up rents. congress needs to pass my plan to build or renovate two million homes and apartments and bring those rents down. by the way. that cost a lot of deficit, guet the deficit. it cut the deficit $1 trillion.

[applause] last guy ballooned the deficit. we passed a budget deal that will cut another $1 trillion over the next decade. kept trying to get out of it but they finally agreed. and now it's my goal to cut the federal deficit by $3 billion more, by $3 trillion more by making big corporations very wealthy and i'm a kapt list, you can go -- you can goake a million buck, make a billion buck, good for you but pay your taxes.'zwj we have a thousand billionaires in america. a thousand. guess how much -- what their tax rate is? 8.3%. anybody want to change your tax rate with them? think about that. 8.3%. donald trump -- you sure as hell

do. look. donald trumpct $2 trillion tax cut when he was president. overwhelmingly benefiting the very wealthy. and exploded the federal it. we cut the deficit. and we added more to the national debt than any president in his term in all of history and under donald um talk about . [laughter] too many corporations raise their prices and pad their profits charging more and more for less and less. that's what we're cracking down on corporations engaged in price gouging and deceptive pricing. like companies that you wouldn't notice, they thought you wouldn't notice but you know if you're -- get you the same size bag of potato chips with about 250% fewer chips. no. that's not a joke. me seen the tv thing on howic? ers bars, same exact price,

don't hold me to the exact number but likeé3 bar. i'm serious. congress needs to pass bobby casey's bill■ stop shrink flaition. -- shrinkflatn. it. these are kitchen table issues. i'm also going after junk fee, though fees added to your bills without your knowledge. my administration announced we're cutting credit card late fees from $32 to $8. way, i'm ng arbitrary. the law says, they can charge a late fee what it costs them to collect it. it does not cost anywhere near $32, but they make billion os dollars.ralism you've got 450,00 people paying those late fees. and they charge.

they end up paying over $billion. banks and credit card companies don't like it. why? i'm saving american families $20 billion a year with those junk fees. $20 billion. by the way, i grew up in scranton and claymont, delaware, the two places i grew up. you know what? it made a difference in my household if you had to pay an extra $50 or an extra $100 a month for things. it isn't fair. folks, does anybody think the tax code is fair? i mean it. i'm serious. i don't. i'm goingke hell to make it fair. under my plan, nobody making less than $400,000 a year, which i've never made until i became president will pay one penny in

additional tax. nobody. not one penny. a big corporation -- big corporations will finally have to begin to pay their fair share.ly. this is fairness. it's about fairness and decency. this is not -- we're not making this stuff up. in■f 2020, you may remember. this was a big fight i had with the republicans. in 2020, 55 of the largest corporations in america made $40 billion in profit. [crowd boos] i was determined to change that. guess what, not anymore. thanks to the law i wrote and signed, big companies now have to pay a minimum of 15%. it's only 15%. still less than working people pay in federal taxes. this time we're going to raise the mimu■1 corporations at least 21%. [cheers and applause]

until every billion dollar corporation begins to pay their fair share. i want to end tax big for a marks big oil, massive executive pay that gets deducted. as i said there's a the billionaires in america. federa, i said three before, that's far less than the vast majority of you pay. no billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a teacher, san days worker, or nurse.■÷ [cheers and applause] that's why i propose, not the highest tax but a minimum tax of 25% forga■1 billionaires. 25. guess what, you know how much money that would raise over the next 10 years? $500 billion. and imagine that would that could do for america, for our

future. it could cut the deficit. could provide for child care. could do so much we need to do and not raise the deficit. invee future by confronting climate crisis. not denying it. i don't know -- [applause] since i've been president i've gone with all the folks from my administration, i've flown over, southwest. flew over in a helicopter, all of them. guess what? it's burned down more timber and more housing than comprises the entire state of maryland.takingt significant action on climate ever in the history of the world. they said i couldn't get it passed. we got $369 billion passed for climate change.

[applause] still cut the defici. america is safer today than when i took office. the year before i took office, murder rates went up to 30% nationwide. biggest increase in american history under the last guy. and now through the american plr republican voted against -- which every republican voted against, i might add, i've made the largest investment in public der rates saw the sharpest decrease in history. violent crime fell to one of the lowest levels in more than 50 years. i'm ramping up federal enforcement for the violence against women act which i proudly wrote so we can finally end the scourge of violence against women. these guys■ fought taking away guns from domestic abusers. i mean, i don't know where -- wd

and signed the most significant gun safety laws in 30 years. now we have to beat n.r.a. again. i'm demanding a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. did it once. [cheers and applause] passed universal background checks. repeal the immunity that affects gun manufacturers. im had the same limitations that gun manufacturers do. the only major corporation in america, industry in america, that you cannot sue. is gun manufacturers. think about that. imagine if that had been the case with tobacco, how many more people would be dying of cancer? there's a lot more to say but i'm keeping you standing too long.

[applause] [crowd■l chanting "four more years"] look, i was watching on television last night about 2:00 in the morning after we got back to the house. the house. the white house. still hard of think of it as home. i had the tv on. there was a fox news commentator saying, you know, biden is tricn economics to build from the middle out and bottom up, going to ruin america. america? we have the strongest economy in the world right now. like i said --

[applause] like i said. i mean this sincerely. i believed it my whole career. finally got it done. if we focus onhe middle class, first of all -- first of all, they're the heart and soul and sinewth if you focus on them and give them an even chance, the poor have a way up and the wealthy still do very, very well. still do very well. i said i'm a capitalist. but capitalism when it engaged in noncompetition, it ends up being just stealing. th. i know you're thinking, i couldn't have been around very long. [laughter] when you get to be my age certain things become clear. never before. i know the american story.

i've seen it again and again in contests between competing forces, the battle for the soul of this nation. some of you may remember when i ran in 2020.t criticized by thes for saying i'd run for three reasons. one, to restore the soul of america. two, to build the middle class so we could begin to grow again and everybody have an even chance. and three, to unite the country. those are still my goals. they're still my goals. [cheers and applause] the soul of the country is who we are. look. did you ever think, those of you who are over 40, did you ever think we'd be in a situation where we talked to each other like we talk these days?

we see things that we see, no matter how tense things were and they were really tough in other parts of o history, when you ride down the street, last trump banner with an f-u on it and a 6-year-old kid putting up his did you ever -- i'm serious. did you ever think you'd hear people talk the way they do?t de are. that's not america. those between -- look, those ofk to the past and those who want to move it into the future, my lifetime has taught me to embrace the futur■x3÷ e. i mean it sincerely. freedom, democracy, future based on the core values that have defined america. decency. fairness. equality. treating people fairly. i really mean it we don't always live up to it. .

donald trump sees the story differently he sees a story of resentment, revenge, retribution. i have been working like hell to unite europe, nato, and make sure ukraine doesn't get crushed by this dictator in russia. [applause] but you know, the fact is t■ghat you have a president who literally has invited putin to do what the hell itants to do, to come into ukraine. he thinks putin is a strong, decent guy. you know who he's in mar-a-lago? orr ban of hungary who stated flatly he doesn't think democracy works, he's looking ns

who he's meeting with. i see a future where we defend democracy. not dimin it. [applause] i see a future where we defend our freedoms, not take them away. a future where the middle class has a fair shot and the wealthy pay their fair share. i see a future where the planet move if the climate crisis, away from the gun violence we have so much of. se a future where america remains the beacon of the world. i've been doing foreign policy since i was a kid in the senate. i was chairman of the foreign relations committee. and i've gone now, i spent over almost 200 hours with leaders of europe, the heads of state. i knowhem well. and guess what. know what every one of them says to me, virtually except or■3■qr?

i'm serious. as we lee these meetings they grab my arm, they pull me aside, i'm serious, they say, y- he can't win again. because my democracy -- their country -- my democracy is at my democracy is at stake. [applause] folks -- above all, i see a country for all americans. a future for all americans. a presidency for all of americans. because i believe in america. i believe in you, the american people we just have to remember who in the hell we are. we are the united states of america. there's nothing -- [cheers d applause] there's nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together. thank you, thank you, thank you for taking the time to be here. [cheers and applause] thank you.

[cheers and applause] pres. biden: by the way. by the way, she talked about how she -- i had to ask this woman five times to marry m five. and finally, the fifth time, i was down in south africa trying to see neln ck to your apartmenn wilmington, delaware, i knocked on the door, i said, you got my irish up. i'm one more time. only one more time. not when, but will you marry me? she goes like this. ok. [laughter] i tell you what. she did it. married a philly girl. applause]

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