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[cheers and applause] [crowd chanting four more■■c years] >> thank you, thank you.

thank you for that introduction and for sharing your 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 and where we're going. [cheers and applause] >> so it's great to be home. as most of you know, i'm a philly girl. [cheers and applause] >> so i grew■é up in willow gro, just north of the city. and probably like most of you, i spent my summers watching the phillies with my dad and in the

fall and we were watching football and the eagles. yes, and speaking of the eagles, can we give jason kelce a round of applause! we are going to him, aren't we? yeah. so last month, joe showed the world what i see day. it's what drew me to me when i met him 50 years ago. [laughter] at that time, he washeartbrokend unspeakable tragedy, but he was keeping it together for our family. thnane foot in front of the other because he

knew his constituents were counting on him. the 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 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 th. courts that are stripping away our most basic freedoms, maga republicans that are trying to drag us back to a dark and dangerous place.

[boos] >> frm exreesmists. we are the first generation in half to give our daughters a country with fewer rights than we have. joe is working freedoms, our fue and our applause] >> i wouldn't wish the tragict>l months on any american president, but i am so grateful that joe i during these uncertain times. [cheers and 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. [booing] >> he tears people down and pits bodies and devalues our existence. and here's the one thingha gets my philly up. as the daughter of a world war ii navy veteran and mother of an army soldier, donald trump insults our veteransarageses thn war calling them losers and

successor. sukers. donald trump is dangerous to our women, families and we can't let him win. we can't wake up the day after the election, like we did in 2016, terrified of the 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 they are. [cheers and applause] >> as if our democracy is on the 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 he m welcome, my husband, the 46th president of the united states, joe biden! [cheers and applause] president biden: i think i shouldme now. go delco.

i'm joe biden. i'm jill biden's husband. thank you for being here today, including something i keep saying we are related. representative, where are you? there you are. you are doing a hell of a job representing this applause] >> if you are tired, you probably watched me last night.] i got my usual warm reception in congress from 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 are trying 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 -- wade and wt she went through should never have happened. you know why it happened?

one reason, donald trump. 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 power -- any way. those bragging about overturning roe v. wade have no clue about the women in the america. no clue. they found out when it was on the ballot in 2023 and will found out again in 2024. i mean this fromk?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 take back progress and restore land.. wade as the low of hop hop -- [cheers and applause] >> i came to office to restore. i i inherited an economy that was on the brink. now our economy is the 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 we can't be the manufacturing capital of the world again. wages are up and inflation is coming down from 9% to 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 begin to pay their share, god love them. for example, americans pay more as a pharmacist for prescription drugs. it's wrong. and i have been fighting the du was in the senate for over 30 years. guess what? we're ending it. in the law i propose and sign, no one, not one republican voted for it and finally beat big phrma. for paying 35 bucks. and by the way, it costs $10 to make and still getting a 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 does for our military. this doesn't just save seniors money but by cutting the deficit and give them the power to negotiate poisees and going to save taxpayers 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 the cost for 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. let's cap prescription drug costs for all americans. the affordable care act is still a very big deal. over 100 million aca longer be h insurance because of pre-existing conditions. but donald trump -- has announce head wants to repeal the affordable care act. his republican colleagues tried 49 other times sincep obamacare was passed. it's not going to happen on my watch. look, i'm also working to bring down the cost of housing. i'm proposing an annual tax rate to give americans $400 a month over the next two years to put toward their mortgage if they are buying for the first 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. i bet you that that sets interes is going to come down. going to come down. pplause] 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 dn. by the way. that cost a lot of money raising the deficit, guess what, we cut the deficit. it cut the deficit $1 trillion. [applause]

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 go make a million buck, make a billion buck, good for you but pay your taxes. 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 trump enacted a $2

trillionhe was president. overwhelmingly benefiting the very wealthy. and exploded the federal deficit.oded 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 trump. these talk about -- oh. [laughter] too many corporations raise their prices and pad their profits chargingd less. that's what we're cracking down on corporations engaged in price gouging and deceptiveri companit notice, they thought you wouldn't notice but you know if you're -- get you bag of potato chips with about 250% fewer chips. no. that's not a joke. some of you may have seen the tv thing■4 on howic? ers bars, same exact price, don't hold me to the exact number but like 20% less seriou.

congress needs to pass bobby casey's bill to stop shrink flaition. -- shrinkflation. stop it. are kitchen table issu. 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. by the way, i'm not being 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. ■literalism you've got 450,000 people paying those late fees. and they charge. they end up paying over $billion.

don't like it. why? i'm saving american families $20 billion a year with those junk $20 billion. by the way, i grew up in scranton and claymont, delaware, the two places i grew up. you know what? it made aifference in my household if you had to pay an extra $50 or an extra $100 a month for things. folks, does anybody think the tax code is fair? i mean it. i'm serious. i don't. i'm going to keep fighting like hell to make it fair. under my plan, nobody making less than $400,000 a year, which i've never made until i president will pay one penny in additional tax. nobody. not one penny. corporation -- bg

corporations will finally have to begin to pay their fair share. really. this is fairness. it's about fairness and decency. this is not -- we're not making this stuff up. in020, 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. and paid zero in federal taxes. boos] i was determined to change that. guess what, not anymore. thanks to the law i wrote and signed, big companies now have it's only 15%.um still less than working people pay in federal taxes. this time we're going to raise the minimum tax to corporations at least 21%. [cheers and applause]

until every billion dollar corporation begins to pay their fair share. i want to end tax cuts for&r■q g for a marks big oil, massive executive pay that gets deducted. as i said there's a the billionaires in america. their is 8.2%, i said three before, that's far less than the vast majority of you pay. no billiairehould 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% for 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. could provide for child care.

could do so much we need to do and not raise the deficit. let's continue to i by confronte 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 wildfires out west,orthwest, southwest. flew over in a helicopter, all of them. gu what? it's burned down more timber and more housing than comprises the entire state of maryland. we'r climate ever in the history of the world. they said i couldn't get it passed. we got for climate change. [applause] and deficit.

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 rescue plan, whichever reblican voted against -- which every republican voted against, i might add, i've made the largest investment in public safety ever. last year, murder rates saw the sharpest decrease in history. violent crime fell to one of the lowest levels in more than 50 years. i'm ram 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 d. i mean, i don't know where -- we beat the n.r.a. when i proposed 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. imagine if tobacco had t limitations that gun manufacturers do. the only major corporation in america, industry in america, that you cannot sue. is g 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 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 on. there was a fox news commentator saying, you know, biden is changing from trickle down economics to build from the middle out and bottom up, going to ruin america. ruin america? we have the strongest economy in the world right now. like iai mean this sincerely.

i believed it my whole career. finally got it done. if we focus on the middle class, first of all -- first of all, they're the heart and soul and sinew of the count 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 well. i said i'm a capitalist. but capitalism when it turns to engaged in noncompetition, it ends up being just stealing. let me close with know you're ti 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 nt between competing

forces, the battle for the soul of this nation. some of you may remember when i ran in 2020. i got criticized by the press for saying i'd run for three reasons. one, to restore the soul of america. two, to build the middle class so and everybody have an even chance. and three, to unite the country. those e 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 our history, when you ride downer with an f-u on it aa 6-year-old kid putting up his middle finger. did you ever -- i'm serious. did you ever think you'd hear people talk the way they do? look at -- it demeans that's not america. those between -- look, those of w to pull america back to the past and those who want to move it into the future, my lifetime has taught me to embrace the future. it sincerely. freedom, democracy, future based on the core values that have defined america. honesty.á■f decency. fairness. equality. treating people fairly. i really mean it we don't always live up to it. that's the american dream. 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 crushe. [applause] but you know, the fact is that you have a president who literally has invited putin to do what the hell it wants to do, to come into ukraine. he thinks putin is a strong, decent guy. you know who he's meeting with today-lago? orr ban of hungary who stated flatly he doesn't think democracy works, he's looking for ctatorship. the only member of nato, that's who he's meeting with.

i see a future where we defend democracy. not diminish 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. i see 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 and i've gone now, i spent over almost 200 hours with leaders of europe, the heads of state. i know them all. i've known them well. and guess what. know what every one of them says to me, virtually except orr ban? i'm serious. as we lee these meetings

they grab my arm, they pull me aside, i'm serious, they pull me say, you've got to -- he can't win again. because my democracy -- their country -- my democracy is at stake. my democracy is at stake. [applause] folks -- above all, i see a country for all americans. a future for presidency for allf americans. because i believe in america. i believe in you, the american people we just have to rememberthe hel. we are the united states of america. there's nothing -- [cheers and applause] there's nhing 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. applause]

pres. biden: by the way. by the way, she talked about how she -- i had to ask this woman five times to marry me. and finally, the fifth time, i was down in south africa trying back to your apartment in wilmington, delaware, i knocked on the door, i said, you got my irish up. i'm asking you 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. [cheers and

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