Biden will be speaking at the Democratic convention on Wednesday night along with President Obama.
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“He has no clue about what makes America great – actually, he has no clue, period”, Biden said.
The crowd erupted in chants of, “Not a clue”. “I know Hillary”, Biden said.
“The times are too uncertain to elect Donald Trump as President of the United States”, Biden said.
“How there be pleasure in saying, “You’re fired”?”
“And then there’s Donald Trump”. “I think there’s always been an element of – and Biden is by no means the only one who has felt this – ‘why does she feel entitled to [run] and I can’t?'”
Erica Smegielski, the daughter of the Sandy Hook Elementary School principal who was killed in the 2012 massacre, teared up as she said that she was angry and demanded action. “And we can’t afford to make that choice”, he said.
Political conventions are about applauding and getting riled up, and Biden was asking for the opposite.
But as Clinton’s email scandal over the private server she used at the State Department raged on, and her approval ratings continued to fall, there was a clamoring for Biden to reconsider.
“No matter how daunting the odds, no matter how much people tried to knock her down, she never, ever quits”.
“Hillary was tough. I was worn out. That’s the Hillary I’ve come to admire”, Obama planned to say.
“You know, nothing truly prepares you for the demands of the Oval Office”.
In a remarkable series of broadsides leveled at Clinton’s opponent, Obama rebuked Trump and the dire picture painted of the country by the GOP presidential nominee.
He said Clinton would approve bad trade deals and allow possibly unsafe immigrants from the Middle East to flood the country.
The vice president has a reputation as a working class, middle class man, and Stephanopoulos asked him to explain why Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump appeared to have such appeal to that demographic.
Clinton notched her victory in the primary race over Bernie Sanders in part by relying on her strong support among minorities-particularly African Americans-as well as women and older voters, while younger and whiter counties threw their support behind her Democratic rival.
And, if you weren’t already terrified, Trump is just days away from receiving top-secret intelligent briefings. “There is a path to the White House for the Democratic Party”.
There was an air of confidence in the arena Wednesday as speakers and videos portrayed Clinton as a sound leader and Trump as erratic.
Russian Federation has denied the hacking allegations. “That’s not law and order”. Are you kidding? No, they’re going to show up. And Biden said that Trump was the most ill prepared for facing, much less dealing with national security issues. Instead, the party’s liberal wing have called for everything from a halt to war and fracking to clean-up efforts in Flint, Michigan’s polluted water. “It takes seven minutes and 48 seconds for a church bell to ring 49 times”, she said.
Biden started to speak by paying tribute to President Barack Obama and calling Obama the “embodiment of honour, resolve and character”.
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Biden wrapped up his speech by making a forceful case for American exceptionalism. He thanked his family and his supporters for giving him strength.
