Fighting a preexisting condition known as brittle bone disease. It is thanks to the Obamabiden Administration and their work to pass the Affordable Care act that my son cannot be denied medical care is of his preexisting condition. I vote democrat because they fight for people like my son and the right for quality, Affordable Health care. The last two months of not been easy either. The coronavirus. As hurt workers in las vegas its clear to me that donald to do whatailed needs to be done to protect american. What about those who are not so lucky. Or not so lucky . Out for them and their families . That is why we need joe biden. Someone like us. Who grew up in a workingclass community, not part avenue. Joe will fight for us. Word describes the spirit of nevada. Resilience. With joe biden as the next president we will move past the darkness of the last four years to a brighter future. 24 days from now, nevada, we have a chance to answer this nations call for compassion, for faith, for resiliency. It is my honor to introduce to you the next president of the United States joe biden. Honking]s mr. Biden hello, hello, hello. Hello. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Hello, las vegas. Lack,ors is a representative titus and my good friend actually he is a great friend congressman were spurred. Thank the principle of principal school, of this great school for hosting this. Just what you need it today. I know you just what you needed today. I know you want the students to be back. I want to thank your staff for all you have done during this challenging time. Alarcon drove, thank you for the jandro, thank ale you for the introduction. To and all those who chose come here to become parents in the United States, you are why we are who we are. Thank you. You are just try to do right by your family, like so many people across the country. I just left the Las Vegas Community center where senator ed florez, the son of mexican immigrants you get to swear in his dad as the United States citizen last week. He became a lawyer to fight for the rights of immigrants and im that with a group of latino leaders who will fight for respect and dignity we are all entitled to, no matter who we are or where we come from. With kamala met harris after her outstanding debate performance. I could not be prouder to be running alongside her. She is always looking out for the people, looking out for you. We met with cindy mccain. The wife, the widow, of a dear friend john mccain. Whoet with a lot of people are not looking for a handout, just a fair shot. Grade school my dad would say we had to move in with my grandparents when he south from scranton to wilmington, delaware looking for a job. He used to always say, you know, the fact is joey, im not looking for government to solve my problems. I hope they can at least understand my problems. He worked hard to build a decent middleclass life. It wasnt easy for him. He had an expression. A job, joey, is about more than a paycheck. Its about dignity. Its about being in to look your kid in the eye and say, honey, its going to be ok. A president who understands what you are going through, who sees where you are and where you want to be. Thing you need is a president who ignores you, who looks down upon you, and just doesnt understand how we got where we are. That is President Trump. Conductless personal since his diagnosis, the destabilizing effect on our government is unconscionable. He did not take precautions to protect himself or others and the longer donald trump is president s, the more is president , the more reckless he gets. Expect him to protect this country . Governor, you have seen how he puts governors against each other. More than 200,000 americans are dead. From 700 to 1000 people every single day in america, worse than any other country in the world. More than 7. 5 million americans have been infected and we are still counting. In nevada, there are more than 82,000 cases. The deaths have been seniors over 60 years of age, americantino, native communities are especially hit hard. Nationally the infection rate among latinos is nearly three of otherher than that my heart goes out to all this families. There is an empty chair around the Kitchen Table and when you go to dinner at night the person who should be there is gone. They have lost part of their soul. They have lost part of their life. Its all about family. For you and i, its all about family. Losing family is a devastating thing. We can do so much better. My heart goes out to everyone struggling with the economic crisis caused by the simple neglect of this president. Nearly im 11 million jobs lost the beginning of this crisis and they still have not come back. Temporary layoffs have turned to permanent layoffs. And americans facing longterm unemployment and the problem of longterm , once you get past a certain point history tells us, they never get a job again. Million theres 30 workers who have lost hours, lost paychecks, or lost their jobs. Yulia 700,000 people have dropped out of the labor force and the vast majority were women. 600 47,000l down jobs in manufacturing nationwide since the crisis started. Here in nevada the Unemployment Rate is 13. 2 , the highest in the nation because of President Trumps negligence. The Hospitality Industry has been hit particularly hard. Of those members are out of work. Tourism went down 70 from a year ago. The result . President trump will be the first president in modern history since hoover to leave office with fewer jobs than when he came into office. Seeing nevada, after 200,000 jobs created in the last seven years of the obamabiden , they have seen jobs go down under the trump presidency. He is leaving us into what he calls a vshaped recession. It is a kshaped recession. For those of the topic keeps going. For the middle left us for those at the top, it keeps going up. For those at the bottom, it keeps going down. Is the most unequal recovery in modern history. If you get this the top 100 billionaires in america have done pretty well. In the pandemic, the top 100 billionaires have made an additional 3 billion. Top 100. When you get to the bottom half its a downward slide. Youre left to figure out how you will pay your bills, put food on the table. So much Food Insecurity and america. Because of the negligence of the president , the kids cant go back to school because he has not provided the wherewithal for schools to open. Youre asked to risk your net because you cant work from home. Thats because you are a police officer, a nurse for you work on. N Assembly Line if you are a housekeeper, a governor, your members of congress are doing everything they possibly can to turn things around. Governor, you have been focused and responsible. You followed science and Public Safety first. To reopen schools in the economy safely. Your members of congress have done the same. Passed what they call the heroes act months ago. Would have provided aliens of dollars to keep First Responders on the job. And mitch trump mcconnell, the republican leader, did nothing to move the legislation. In june, nothing in august, nothing in september. Things are getting worse and worse and worse. As People Struggle and suffer, what do they focus on. If this were not so serious you would think i was making it up. What do they focus on . More tax cuts for the wealthy. Im not joking. His proposal has another tax cut for millionaires and billionaires. Cutting the means by which we find the Social Security system, leaving the actuaries to say if they do it, by mid2023 there will be no money for Social Security. And the relentless effort to eliminate the of portable care act which provides Health Care Coverage for 22 million people. 20 billion people, 100 million with preexisting conditions. He has already cost 10 million their Health Insurance because the companies have gone bankrupt. It iscionable unconscionable. Hes trying to take your health care away. Its literally before the Supreme Court as i speak, to strike down the entire Affordable Care act. One hundred 82,000 nevadans. Nevadans. Take away protection for preexisting conditions. From covid could very well be the next preexisting condition. Tossing out the Affordable Care act that allows children to be covered on their parents insurance policy until at least 26, taking us backward where Insurance Companies could charge a woman more just because shes a woman. Take away medicare benefits for seniors, increased drug , and just ascosts he vowed to terminate the funding for Social Security. The idea that in just a few for hundred at risk 10,000 nevada to rely on a dignified retirement because of 410,000ecurity nevadans who rely on a dignified retirement because of Social Security. Not once did President Trump call a high level meeting of democrats and republicans to solve these issues. I have served with a lot of president s. Did they fail to try to bring parties together in the white house to reach a settlement. You know why . He spends so much time hiding in the bunker in the white house, or the bunker off his golf course, playing hundreds of rounds of golf, and then this tuesday, what did he do . He said into the discussions. He was not even starting them. No more negotiations, no more negotiations. And today he says, well, im back. Donald trump shows no urgency to deliver hardworking americans, like the family i grew up in and like all of you, what they need now, desperately. Since they two months Emergency Small Business Program the congresspeople voted for has close down. Businesss of small owners in nevada and across the country waiting and hoping for just a little extra help to stay open. Now we have over 400,000 Small Businesses closed. Tolions more are struggling hang on. . Ow many more will go under , if youristake business is closed, if you are , over 20 million americans worry whether they will be able to pay their mortgage next month. None of that seems to matter to donald trump. If you are a firefighter or a police officer, he has turned his back on you as well. When barack and i were elected we inherited the worst recession short of the Great Depression in history. We put together the recovery act. We put together in 18 months to prevent a recession. I was able to see to it that the moving, keepkeep teachers, First Responders, firefighters moving. Right here in clark county i was able to bring 1. 2 billion to keep your economy going. Now. Ve that ability the house has already passed a similar piece of legislation and we start the longest sustained recovery in american history, but you know what Mitch Mcconnell said about helping the state . Im not making this up. Bankrupt,et them go let them go bankrupt. What the hell is he talking about . We are so much better than this. We can contain this virus and fully reopen our economy. We make up 4 of the worlds population and we have 20 of the worlds deaths. Science,t follow the expanded testing and tracing, social distancing, washing her hands, nationwide mask mandate washing your hands, nationwide mask mandates. Dont politicize the race for a vaccine, mr. President. Just have a plan for a safe and equitable distribution. Have a real plan and then implement a comprehensive agenda i have laid out to make bold investments so we can look back. Etter theeeps talking about republicans some are in support of me. He says biden is going to spend all this money. Analysis. A detailed create 18. 6ill million jobs, 7 million more jobs than the president s plan. You have got to get things done. This is how my plan is works. It is not going to raise up henney of tax. How do we pay for all this . I would ask the corporations and the wealthy to start paying their fair share. Not 92 million do not pay a penalty a penny in talking and taxes. Taxes . Trump paid 720 in come on. The money we raised by limiting the 1. 3 trillion of the tax cuts that affects the super wealthy and corporations, we will grow the economy to make sure everyone is included on the deal. The kinds of investment that will stimulate the economy, including Industries Like tourism. To help the economy build back better than before. Millions ofating good paying union jobs, manufacturing and said knowledge , dust technology, making sure our future is made in america. When the president and the white house gives out 600 billion in contracts for a year, guess why . Guess what . When i am president it will go to know outfit that does not make it in america and sell it in america. Mean it infrastructure, building roads, airports, clean energy. 2 million homes. Million goodeast a paying jobs, making the climate safer, saving hundreds of millions of barrels of oil. Well deal with Climate Change by creating millions of union jobs. Stronger, theback more frequent wildfires. And by the way. Did you hear what the president said about hurricanes this summer . He was told how they were coming across the warm water in the getntic and the closer they to the shore the worst they get. Thats the worst they get the worse they get. Drop anmaybe we should atomic bomb on them. Bless me, father, for i have sent. Sinned. Have make anotherto 100 billion in lowinterest loans available for these businesses, creating job, increasing economic growth, increasing incomes. A 15 minimum wage. A 15 minimum wage for our essential workers. We not just went to praise you. We are going to pay you with a good wage and make sure you have strong benefit. The we will create subsidies to increase plans that will lower deductibles. It is a plan that will slash Prescription Drug costs. If in fact medicare is able to negotiate for all the drugs they buy and say, you will not sell them unless they pay the price they are suggesting, that would drop by 60 the cost of drugs. We will also make highquality child care accessible and work with states to ensure that every three and fouryearold will get access to a highquality preschool, not daycare. We will ensure that low and middle income families will never have to spend more than 7 of their income to care for their children. Onwe want to reward work this country we have to ease the Financial Burdens of families caring for a child or an aging loved one. For the professional caregivers out there, often women, women of color, immigrants, too often underpaid, under seen, undervalued. That is why my plan will elevate the compensation for caregivers and we will triple the funding for title i schools like the one behind me. Make four years of Public Knowledge and University Tuition free for any family that makes less than 125,000 a year. Collegemake Community Free for americas it qualify. And if you are buying your first home, we will provide a 15 thousand dollars tax credit to help you get there. We will increase benefits for millions of seniors. Om. To joebiden. C we pay for all this and we grow the economy at the same time. The president of the United States can only see the world from park avenue. He thinks wall street built this country. Scranton. World from communities like the ones you live in. The measure of economic access is families talking about this around the Kitchen Table, being able to look your kid in the eye and they, honey, its going to be ok. Times has someone i know this tires are bald. We dont have the money. You cant go back to school because we can continue to borrow for community college. Those are the discussions that took place around my table. If were going to get anything done, weve got to come together. I made a speech and i thought really hard about it in gettysburg, pennsylvania at the battlefield last week. I said at the time we are facing oversis not unlike we did gettysburg. I said i am running as a democrat, but i am going to govern as an american president. I am going to work as hard for those who dont support me as those who do. After all this country has been after all the years we stood as a beacon of light to the world we cannot be here and now and 2020, we cannot allow the government of the people, by the people, for the people to perish from this earth. Folks, we have it in our hands and i mean this we have the ultimate power. Whats the ultimate power in a democracy . The power to vote. In nevada, the best thing you can do is vote early and return your ballot quickly. Ballots in clark county were mailed two days ago. You can return your ballot by mail. You can drop it off with a dropbox. Just make a plan. Seriously. Llvote. Com nv. Make a plan. Heard. Re your voice is better we can be the United States of america. Bringonfident we can democrats and republicans together again with him gone. Sayinglet me conclude by or has never ever, ever been anything the United States was not able to accomplish when we. Ave done it together never, never. Up and take stand back this country now. Thank you. Thank you. [car horns honking] our campaign 2020 coverage continues with candidates campaigning. Eastern, colorado Senator Cory Gardner debates his challenger, former governor john hickenlooper, live on cspan, cspan. Org and the free cspan radio app. Joint on the phone now by Detroit Free PressLansing Bureau chief. Most of the stories coming out about this plot, to kidnap the governor. Mr. Egan, take us through what we know so far, how far it got before it was foiled. Know isk, well, what we there were a number of conversations that were going on, both in person, and, in some cases,