All ideological views. All backgrounds. Predictable, some of them. It comes from all over except from Donald Trumps white house and allies. You all knew it was coming. You could have set your watch is to it. Donald trump has started his attacks, calling kamala quote, nasty. Mean toout how she is his appointees. It is no surprise because whining is what donald trump does best, better than any president in american history. Is anyone surprised donald trump has a problem with a strong woman or strong women across the board . We know more is to come. Lets be clear, if you are a working person worried about whether or not you will have a job to go to, whether or not you will be able to pay your mortgage, pay your rent, worried about the poison in the air you breathe, worried about your civil rights, even your basic right to dignity, which is under attack with this administration, Kamala Harris has had your back and now, we have to have her back. She is going to stand with me in this campaign and all of us are going to stand up for her. 20, 2021, we are going to watch senator harris raise her right hand and swear the oath of office as the first woman ever to serve in the Second Highest Office in america in this land. Then we are going to get to work fixing the mess President Trump and Vice President pence have created both at home and abroad. Through four years of mismanagement and coddling of terrorists and thugs around the world. Not only will america dig itself out of this hole they have put us in, we are going to build back better. We have a Public Health crisis. With more than 5 million reported infections, 100 safety 5000 people dead and climbing 165 thousand people dead and climbing as a consequence of covid19. Months later, no real leadership or plan from the president of the United States on how to get this pandemic under control. From the states and local governments trying to fill the vacuum of leadership from the white house. No real help for children and educators, for Small Businesses and frontline workers the ones holding our country together. Instead, he is issuing executive orders and making promises that in the end will defund the Social Security system while insisting theres a virus will disappear insisting this virus will disappear. Harris biden and kamala administration will have a calm brands of plan to meet the challenge of a comprehensive plan to meet the challenge of covid19. Masking, clear sciencebased guidance, dramatically scaling up testing, cutting states and local governments the resources they need getting states and local governments the resources they need. We can do this. We need a president and Vice President willing to lead and take responsibility. Not as this president says, not my fault. The governor should thank me more. As the old saying goes, give me a break. We have an economic crisis. More than 16 million Americans Still out of work. Track toump is on break another record. Withack to leave office the worst jobs record of any american president in modern history. Instead of doing the hard work of meeting facetoface with congressional leaders, democrats and republicans in the white house like every other president has done in crisis, to get americans the relief they need and deserve, donald trump is on the golf course. I told you this three years ago and you looked dead and he would look at me like i was being crazy look at me like i was being crazy. He has not even met with the leadership. He does not have time, it appears. Trump refuses to acknowledge shade when he things about Climate Change, all we hear is the word hoax. Biden Harris Administration is going to meet the crisis. Protect the health of the american public. Along the way, we are going to deliver one word, jobs. Good paying jobs. We have a Racial Justice crisis. Donald trump seeks only to inflame it with his politics of racist rhetoric and appeals to the division. Today is not only the day i am proud to introduce senator Kamala Harris as the Vice President ial nominee, it is also the third anniversary of the terrible day in charlottesville. Remember what it felt like to see those neonazis . Close your eyes. Those White Supremacists coming out of fields carrying lighted torches, faces contorted, bulging veins, pouring into the streets of an historic american same spewing the antisemitic bio we heard in germany in the 1930s. Member how it felt to see a violent clash ensue between those celebrating hate and those standing against it . It was a wakeup call. All of us as a country. For me, it was a call to action. My father used to say, silence is complicity. Not original to him, but he believed it. I knew he could not stand we could not by and let donald trump, a man who went on to say he thought they were very fine people on both sides. Quote, very fine people on both sides. No president of the United States of america has ever said anything like that. He seemed to continue to attack everything that makes america america. I knew we were in the battle for the soul of the nation should that is when i decided to run. I am proud now to have senator harris at my side in that battle because she shares with the same intensity i do. She has someone who knows what is at stake. The question is, for all americans to answer, who are we as a nation . What do we stand for . Most importantly, what do we want to be . The future ofows this country is limited only by the barriers we place on our own imaginations because there is nothing americans cannot achieve when we put our minds to it and do it together. One of the reasons i shows isala i chose kamala because we both believe we can define america in one word, possibilities. Possibilities. Let me say it again. Possibilities. That is america. That is what sets this nation apart. , the ability for everyone and we mean everyone, to go as far and dream as big as hard work and their godgiven ability will take them. When i grade to serVice President obamas running mate when i agreed to serve as president obamas running mate, he asked me a number of questions. Wanted most what i importantly. I told him i wanted to be the last person in the room before he made important decisions. That is what i ask kamala. I ask kamala to be the last voice in the room. To always tell me the truth, which she will. Challenge my assumptions if she disagrees. Ask the hard questions. Make the besty we decisions for the American People. To spend somee time at my home today with kamala and doug. I thank them publicly for agreeing to join and take this journey with jill and me. Doug, youre going to have to learn what it means to be a barrier breaker yourself in this job you are about to take on. Americas first second gentleman. Although they are not with us today, i will thank ella and cole as well. I had a chance to speak to dougs mom and dad and ella and cole. Youre going to get our kids together and let them know what is coming. My grandchildren are about the age of their children. My campaign has always been a family affair. Every campaign i have run. I have some news for you. You are all honorary bidens. Here is the best part. Kamala, you have been an honorary biden for quite some time. I came first to know who kamala was through our son, beau biden. They were friends. They served as attorneys general at the same time. They took the same they took on the same big fights together. Kamala in california. Beau in delaware. Big fights that helped change the entire country. I know much i know how much beau respected kamala in her work. That mattered a lot, to be honest with you. We need to get to work pulling this nation out of these crises find ourselves in. Getting our economy back on track. Winning the battle for the soul of america. Americans, let me introduce to you for the first time, your next Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris. Kamala, the floor is yours. Senator harris thank you, joe. Thank you, joe. As i said, when you called me, i am incredibly honored by this responsibility and i am ready to get to work. I am ready to get to work. After the most competitive primary in history, the country received a resounding message that joe was the person to lead us forward. I am so proud to stand with you. Of all thedful heroic and ambitious women before me whose sacrifice, determination and resilience makes my presence here today even possible. This is a moment of real consequence for america. Everything we care about, our economy, our health, our children, the kind of country we live in, it is all on the line. We are really from the worst we are reeling from the worst Public Health crisis in a century. The president s mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the great depression. We are experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscious of conscience to the streets of our country, demanding change. America is crying out for leadership. President who cares more about himself and the people who elected him about himself than the people who are like that impaired a president who is making every challenge we face more difficult to solve. We do not have to accept the failed government of donald trump and mike pence. In just 83 days, we have a futureto choose a better for our country. Joe, dr. Biden, thank you for the trust you have placed in me. Jill, i know you will be an incredible first lady. My husband doug and i are so grateful to become a part of your extended family. Ever since i received joes call, ive been thinking about the first biden i came to know. And that of course is joes beloved son, one of his beloved sons, beau. In the midst of the great recession, beau spoke on the phone sometimes multiple times a day. Working together to win back billions of dollars for homeowners from the big banks of the nation that were foreclosing on peoples homes. Let me tell you about beau biden. Wasarned quickly that beau the kind of guy who inspired people to be a better version of themselves. He really was the best of us. When i would ask him, where did you get that, where did this come from, he would always talk about his dad. Love thatl you the they shared was incredible. Most you to full display of the most beautiful display of the love between a father and son. How joe wouldout spend four hours every day riding the rails back and forth between wilmington and washington so he could make breakfast for his kids in the morning and make it home in time to tuck them in bed each night. All of this so two little boys who had just lost our mom and sister in a tragic accident lost their mom and sister in tragic accident would know the world was still turning. That is how i came to know joe. He is someone whose First Response when things get tough is never to think about himself, but to care for everyone else. Asks,someone who never why is this happening to me . Do instead asks, what can i to make life better for you . , his compassion, his sense of duty to care for others is why i am so proud to be on this ticket. Cut from the same cloth. Family is everything to me too. I cannot wait for america to get to know my husband doug and our amazing kids. Whether i am sharing in the bleachers at a swim meet or setting up a college dorm or helping my goddaughter prepare for her debate foreboding legos with my godson or building legos with my godson or cooking dinner, sunday dinner, my family means everything to me. I have had a lot of titles over my career. Certainly, Vice President will mom will always be the one that means the most. My mother and father came from opposite sides of the world to arrive in america. One from india and the other from jamaica. In search of a worldclass education. Was brought them together the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. That is how they met, as students in the streets of oakland, marching and thought and shouting for this thing called justice in struggle that continues today. I was part of it. My parents would bring me to protests strapped tightly in my stroller. My mother raised my sister and me to believe it was up to us and every generation of americans to keep on marching. She would tell us, do not sit around and complain about things. Do something. So i did something. I devoted my life to making real words carved in the end it states supreme court, equal justice under law. 30 years ago, i stood before a justice the third the first time and uttered the phrase that would truly guide my career and the rest of my career. Kamala harris for the people. The people. That is who i represented as ticket attorney, fighting on behalf of victims who needed help. The people, that is who i fought for as californias attorney general when i took on Transnational Criminal Organizations who traffic in guns and drugs and human beings. It is the people i have fought for as United States senator where i have worked every day to hold Trump Officials accountable to the American People. The people are who joe and i will fight for everyday in the white house. Somebody who has presented my fair share of arguments in court, the case against donald trump and mike pence is open and shut. Just look at where they have gotten us. More than 16 million out of work. Millions of kids who cannot go back to school. A crisis of poverty, of homelessness afflicting black, brown and Indigenous People the most. Afflicting hunger one in five mothers who have children that are hungry and tragically, more than 165,000 lives that have been cut short. Many with loved ones who never got the chance to say goodbye. It did not have to be this way. Six years ago, we had a Different Health crisis. It was called ebola. We all remember that pandemic. You know what happened then . Barack obama and joe biden did their job. Only two people in the United States died. Two. That is what is called leadership. Compare that to the moment we find ourselves in now. When other countries are following the science, trump pushed miracle cures he saw on fox news. While other countries were flattening the curve, he said quote,us would go away like a miracle. When other countries opened back for business, what did we do . We had to shut down again. Almostrus has impacted every country. But there is a reason it has hit america worse than any other advanced nation. It is because of trumps failure to take it seriously from the start. His refusal to get testing up and running. His flipflopping on social distancing and wearing masks. His delusional belief that he knows better than the experts. All of that is reason and the dies ofhat an american covid19 every 80 seconds. It is why countless businesses have had to shut their doors for good. It is why there is complete chaos over one and how to reopen our schools. Mothers and fathers are confused and uncertain and angry about childcare and the safety of their kids at school. Whether they will be in danger if they go or fall behind if they do not. Trump is also the reason millions of americans are now unemployed. He inherited the longest economic expansion in history from barack obama and joe biden. And then, like Everything Else he inherited, he ran it straight into the ground. Because of trumps failures of leadership, of trumps failures of leadership, our economy has taken the biggest hit at of all industrialized nations with Unemployment Rate that has tripled as of today. This is what happens when we elect the guy who is not up for the job. Ends up in tatters and so does our reputation around the world. Lets be clear. This election is not just about defeating donald trump or mike pence. It is about building this country back better. That is exactly what joe and i will do. We will create millions of jobs and fight Climate Change through a clean energy revolution. Bring back critical supply chains so the future is made in america. Build on the Affordable Care act has a piece of mind that comes with health insurance. Caregivers, offer they dignity, respect and pay they deserve. We will protect a womans right to make her own decisions about her own body. Root out systemic racism in our Justice System and pass a new Voting Rights act, a john lewis Voting Rights act, that will ensure every boys is heard at every voice is heard and every voice is counted. The civil rights struggle is nothing new to joe. It is why he got into public service. It is why he helped to reauthorize the Voting Rights act and restore unemployment discrimination and employment discrimination laws. In thehe takes his place ongoing story of americas march 20 quality march toward equality as the only who served alongside the first black president and has chosen the first black woman as his running mate. As joe is points out, this election is about more than politics. It is about who we are as a country. Momentsdmit there are when i have truly worried about our future. Is aver i think that there reason for doubt, whenever i have had my own doubts, i think , theu, the American People doctors and nurses and frontline workers who are risking their lives to save others. The Truck Drivers and workers in grocery stores, in factories, in farms putting your own safety on the line to help get us through this pandemic. The women and students taking to the streets in unprecedented numbers. And immigrants. People of every age and color and creed were finally declaring in one voice, black l