a long career in politics one that includes 2 previous failed presidential beds and 8 years as brock obama's 2nd in command here's a closer look at the man who will run the white house for the next 4 years it began half a century ago at 29 joseph biden was one of the youngest candidates ever elected to the u.s. senate his success though laced with sadness when just weeks later his wife and daughter died in a car accident he remarried and made his 1st presidential bed in 1908 and again 20 years later my grandmother would yell out spread the faith. he was chosen to be barack obama's running mate. the best vice president barack has ever had mr joe biden. and he was resigned to never quite reaching the nation's highest office until donald trump came along that's why today i'm announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. and we have to with this decades of experience biden said he was the man to restore america's standing in the world but he was the man for the moment i'll be a president will stand with our allies and friends and make it clear to our adversaries the days of cozying

and 960 pledges a new front chair and 12 years ago when brock obama made history told us yes we can. afford it but. we stand at a luncheon for you we have an opportunity to defeat despair to build a nation of prosperity and purpose we can do it i know we can i've lost talked about the battle for the soul of america we must restore the soul of america our nation to shape by the constant battle between our better angels and our darkest impulses and were present to say in this battle matters is task for our better angels to prevail tonight the whole world is watching america and i believe that our best america is a beacon for the bros we will not lead we will lay not only by the example of our power but by the power of our example. a 55 hours wait a minute you heard me say i've always believed we can define america in one word possibilities. that in america everyone should be given an opportunity to go as far as their dreams and god given ability will take you saying i believe in the possibilities this this country we're always looking. ahead to what america is freer and more just had t

and 960 pledges a new front tear and 12 years ago when brock obama made history told us yes we can. we stand that inflection for you we have an opportunity to defeat despair to build a nation of prosperity and purpose we can do it i know we can i've last talked about the battle for the soul of america we must restore the soul of america our nation to shape by the constant battle between our better angels and our darkest impulses and what presidents say in this battle matters it's time for our better angels to prevail tonight the whole world is watching america and i believe that our best america is a beacon for the close. we will not leave and we will live not only by the example of our power but by the power of our example. the 5 who i've always been way too many of you heard me say i've always believed we can define america in one word possibilities. that and america everyone should be given an opportunity to go as far as their dreams and god given ability will take to you saying i believe in the possibilities this this country we're always looking. ahead to what america is freer

brock obama was an extraordinary president. he was also the deporter in chief, and joe biden stood by and let that happen. the notion that one man, one older white man can be the savior of everything that is happening in the united states is problematic. and so i watching very closely at how the journalists are responding to that particular narrative that the democratic party right now is pushing if there was a clear majority in this election, it was in the number of a stablished news outlets on the air and in print united in their conclusion that donald trump was unfit for office. still more than 70000000 americans took that consensus and rejected. one half of the country is choosing to see and hear one message, the other, another chance. and even as fox news slowly distances itself from trying other online elements in the right wing media bubble are still hard at it. president trump the cavalry's coming. conspiracy theorists like alex jones in for calling on trump's true believers to descend on washington this weekend to stop

best exemplified in the refusal of the republican senate to consider the president for rob brock obama's choice for supreme court vacancy after antonin scalia died didn't even get a hearing. it's similarly when. when justice ginsburg died the republican senate just really raced through a macone barrett so they've got they've shown historically in experience that when they have the power they use the power and so this has implications for all of those promises that that we've been talking about that joe biden made on the campaign trail to extend obama care to. to forge some kind of compromise legislation on immigration reform to. impose taxes on the wealthiest earners in america a lot of these things are not going to fly in the senate and i think joe biden maybe he believes that the senate is you know war like it was when he used to be a senator which was more than. 12 years ago and it's changed since then it's gotten a lot worse in terms of 5 part in terms of partisan division so i think it's going to take all of biden's powers of persuasion to try and get a lot accomplished with republi

when i was his democratic challenger joe biden told michigan with the helpful former president brock obama a white house correspondent kimberly how it was warm in the campaign trail. with less than 72 hours until election day president trump started early for a full day of campaigning 4 different stops in the northeastern state of pennsylvania in just 10 hours trump narrowly won pennsylvania in 2016 and on tuesday he's hoping to do it again and if we win pennsylvania it's over i mean this is one of a handful of states the trump campaign considers a must win for reelection what i didn't expect from such good friends leading in national polls former vice president joe biden skipped pennsylvania on saturday instead he joined former president barack obama fighting for votes in another election battleground michigan i believe the most is going to be loud and it's going to be clear it's time for donald trump to tack is brag sandro you were don't have to carry our us but treats they are eager to hate the fair here refuse to take any responsibility the pair blame trump for the rising cases of cove

battleground states donald trump's holding rallies in pennsylvania joe biden is on the road with brock obama michigan the election is on tuesday. algerians are voting in a constitutional referendum on whether to reform a decades old political system it's part of efforts by the new government to respond to demands from protesters rescue crews in turkey are working to save people trapped under the rubble and is near a powerful earthquake on friday hit the western turkish province and the greek island of some also triggering a small tsunami at least $51.00 people have been killed and hundreds more injured. those headlines news continues here on al-jazeera right after inside story coming up next. right after. china has laid out on bush's plan to grow its economic military and cultural followers it wants to see amount of its global presence further in the coming years but will this aggressive agenda put jean on a collision course with the u.s. this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. china's central committee has announced its plans for the next 15 years senior communist officials have

visceral reaction they hear when they hear the names of biden or trump either biden going back to the brock obama days when conservatives felt like they weren't being heard potentially and donald trump where conservatives have have a voice on capitol hill and then the reverse is you know fear when they hear donald trump or aspects of hope so i don't know if the average american could do what you just did which is to put down what the policies are for the next 4 years and if they're going to the ballot boxes really with that in mind or that emotional response that they've been brewing for the last 4 years right well we're going to see soon enough in the coming hours which way is going in as the numbers come in would you think we should look for clues as to how things are developing. well the polls of course are our 1st clue right and you know m s n b c and other journalists are doing exit polls but that's very difficult because that has to be done over the phone it's not being done in person so we won't have exit polls necessarily in the same way we have in the past but the polls that are coming t

dramatic differences there is a remarkable degree of collaboration between the outgoing administration brock obamaadministration to align legislation for the great recession because those happening in september and october will be a game plan maybe that gives us an inkling of a good standard would look like for nothing like this. and during this transition perhaps. when it was ambiguous and then after that between the election and the inauguration. >> i'm so glad you mention the fact that we forget this contested transition between the bush presidency and obama presidency was a high level of collaboration even down to the functional handshake of the incoming department head which makes a huge difference we never used to think we were talking about a president who wouldn't acknowledge the legitimate election but with the extraordinary ability to handoff what is the enormous complicated set of 250 companies working together every four years or every eight years and we do it parties. biden has the advantage in one of his very first assignments and to take on the implementation of the stimulus bill. a

when a brock obama said he would do fundamentally transform america, he said in late october 2008 produce ago before the election. it was unsafe throwaway line. joe biden is running on that pretty saying that openly was a fundamentally transform america. they talk about systemic racism. he's condemning the societies running to leave and he's doing so openly. you can see we made the same complaints before. i think saturday the left is only become firmer and its conviction that only radical transformation is appropriate for the country. it's where bill clinton triangulated and is moved back to the center to win elections. he won in 96 by moving to the center. in that leadership council that move the party and a more pro- market direction. so that democrats were offering americans a better run free markets. a better run system. that was a waiting author. it probably could have continued without the impeachment and the monica lewinsky scandal which made her harder for al gore to win after bill clinton. think the democrats were in control now took the opposite lesson. they were dissatisfied wi

. >> a high graduate and student body president at uc davis, lee was motivated during brock obama's reelectionampaign. >> i was deciding what to do with the rest of my life. i figured, this was one way to make an impact on the people's lives. >> a speech after the march primary he peto seven other democrats and endorsed by the man he interned for. mike honda. endorsed by senator bernie sanders. he won his campaign like sanders taking a corporate money. among these priorities explaining transit and education reform, his top priority is housing. >> i know from first-hand how expensive it is to limit the bay area. i would not be able to live in my home community. >> he's going to serve as a state legislator but cannot afford to live in the community that he represents. >> he worked for silicon valley as a legislative aide. lee speaks to the progressive ideals and policies of generation z. >> it's about commitment with progressive values. that will resonate with people. that's how you make change.>> some of the thousands of californians who have lost their homes and wildfires are finally getting g

there's only 2 times since 1976 that it democrat has won it but one of those 2 times was 2008 when brock obama won north carolina by only 14000 votes when joe biden was the vice presidential on the vice presidential ticket there so that's why the biden campaign was hoping to get north carolina it's still too close to call but the bottom line here is that by opened up an early lead a couple hours ago but the trump had been chipping away at that as the. same day voting tally was was was tallied and what we're seeing now is 97 percent of the vote tally and we see donald trump. with about a $73000.00 vote advantage potentially very difficult at this stage for baidoa overcome that however it's still too close to call. given as on the reporting live from new york clips him now from the 2 correspondents are covering the can but it's in a moment we'll speak with my count who's in wilmington delaware democratic candidate joe biden's home state but 1st let's go to our white house correspondent kimberly how could what's the mood. among the trump campaign kimberly. well our senior white house producer chr

well, the former deputies of obama's team, of course, how easy, i'm really starting to get that joke that brock's got himself a 3rd term. let's take a look at the collective portrait of a deputy dream team. one squad member clearly thinks it was the meddling russians who god, donald trump, elected in the 1st place. jake sullivan biden speak for national security advisor. this was a moment where we realized that the russians had decided that they were going to actively interfere in the u.s. election. that they were going to intensively work to undermine the pillars of u.s. democracy. and that they were going to try to defeat hillary clinton. if it wasn't for the russians, if you know what i mean, this career boost would have come much earlier. after all, mr. sullivan served as an advisor for the hillary clinton campaign. and yes, he worked as a national security advisor to the vice president biden. and here we're looking at someone who was all for upping u.s. involvement in syria. tony blinken, the new man taking care of america's foreign relations in syria. it's tougher, it's longer. it's going t