Maybe we’ll get a Trump presidency, ‘” Biden said, adding: “Oh, I think Putin doesn’t want a united North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. That speech catapulted an aspiring senator to the national stage and eventually led him to the White House.
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What Bloomberg did most effectively was make the Hillary hater’s case for Hillary.
But when the young Illinois Sen.
– The headliner will be President Barack Obama. Typically, the sitting vice president would be the natural choice to succeed a term-limited president.
Biden spoke of Clinton glowingly, saying that he had known her for 30 years.
This time, his eldest son and political heir Beau, the former attorney general of DE, died at just 46 of brain cancer.
Once considered a potential Democratic presidential contender, Biden silenced and enraptured convention-goers as he praised the “American values” that middle-class voters identify with and used them as an argument against Trump.
Some supporters were still pushing for a Biden run, working to set up the infrastructure he might need.
“I look at someone who is a statesman”. All the Republicans know, that’s not who we are.
“This is a complicated and uncertain world we live in”, Biden said, asking people to be silent while he finished his statement. He’s betting that if he scares enough people, he might score just enough votes to win this election. “She’s been part of the decision, she knows what’s at stake in decisions”.
Ultimately, the grieving father never sounded like he was ready for the rigors of a national campaign so soon after such an unimaginable loss.
Biden says everyone knows that Clinton is smart and tough but he says, “I know what she’s passionate about”.
“I’ve been made strong at the broken places”, he said, quoting Ernest Hemingway.
He never got there, at least not in time.
Biden’s speech was all about a positive, liberal spin on the American story. “I’m a New Yorker and I know a con when I see one”.
“When Trump chose to run for president, he probably said to himself, ‘I’m an egomaniac”. And Michelle, I don’t know where you are, kid, but you’re incredible. “They’re the opposition, not our enemies”. “There’s nothing suspicious in my tax returns – believe me!”
Biden on Tuesday said it is premature to judge the Democratic response to ISIS before the party’s convention closes.
“I bet if tim kaine has leaked voicemails at the DNC they were all reminders to stay hydrated”, tweeted Washington Post writer Alexandra Petri.
Christine Leinonen, the mother of one of the 49 people killed at the Pulse Nightclub shootings, was supported by two of her son’s friends while she asked for “common sense” gun laws. He told NPR’s Rachel Martin last month that he would be “vouching” for Clinton over the course of the race. It has been rescheduled for August 15 in Biden’s hometown Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The most contentious moment came during former CIA Director Leon Panetta’s speech. “Not really a facts guy, either”, he said of Trump.
“We have to be a little graceful here”. “The Sanders delegates worked their tail off and they’re here in large numbers”. And every single day since then, it’s been the honor of our lives for Jill and me.
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But even if he’s behind Clinton now, he confessed to ABC’s Robin Roberts earlier this year that he still thought about what might have been.
