President ial election of 2024. We will win big around better than ever before. They rigged the president ial election in 2020, and were not going to allow them to rig the president ial election in 2024. Sure sounds like hes preparing to challenge the results if he doesnt win yet again, yeah. And the audience in the biden speech, republicans hate this. Hear the sound bites dont want to relive the to 2020 election, relitigate this. For biden dont have to win them all, just a handful to win a state like arizona, wisconsin, or georgia. I spect i suspect a recurring theme and empirical evidence it worked. Enough centerright independents and soft Republican Voters taken in by this. Whats happening since then . Trump indicted several times. Listen. Here is cindy mccain. The widow of john mccain, head of the u. N. World food program introducing President Biden at this address. Lets listen in. Good morning, everyone. I am so pleased to be here this morning to seenot only all of y but the president who is here. Mr. President , madam governor, esteemed guests welcome to what is an enduring impactful and fitting legacy for my husband. It has taken five long years since johns death to have the honor of standing here before you with the proud knowledge of what now stands before all of us. Thanks to the work of so many people. This Future Library will provide the Beating Heart And Soul to help further the causes john so dearly believed in. And will be the impetus to bring them back to where they belong. To the place that he loved so. Arizona. The road ahead is just beginning, but we know where it will lead. John would have hated if wed made this occasion just about him, but instead he would have wanted to make it about what is most important. Johns constant mantra of service to a cause greater than one selfs stinterest. And this wills embodied in this project from nurturing the flame of democracy. Calling others to a cause of characterdriven leadership or championing the issues most important to arizonans. His spirit will live on through the actions and the ideals that we will move here. There is no more starkly manifest personification of these causes and how they bring us together than the fact that President Biden is here to get us under way. While john and he differed or Many Political issues through their respective careers, the great causes that brought them together and were most important to our nation are shared in this venture. It is my true hope that it will also serve as a motivation to inspire a new generation to take on the mantel of Public Service and to fight for the worthy causes they believe in. Just as john did. We would not be capable of this great undertaking without the efforts of countless friends and advocates. I cannot thank those who have brought us here today to name a few, of course, the mccain family. Governor ducey, governor hobbs and, of course, President Biden. From the bottom of my heart thank you. And we [ applause ] and we know that your faith and assistance are the foundation of the great work that lays ahead, and now in true john mccain fashion, we have much to do. Im going to introduce the president , but give me just a second to add a special note, if i may. I dont know that many of you even know this. I was a young woman teaching Special Education and i went to spring break, on spring break with my parents to hawaii, and while i was there we were invited to this glorious reception held on behalf of a Senate Delegation on their way to china. During the course of that event there were two people that came over to me and said, you have got to meet this man in this room. President biden and mrs. Biden introduced me to my husband, and im so grateful for that. [ applause ] it is my sincere honor to introduce to you president joe [ playing Hail To The Chief ] please, please, sit down. Thank you. Put a little more meat on that bone that last one. John and i used to travel together. When john got back from all of that time in vietnam in prison, after being released he decided he want to go back and stay in the military and was assigned to the United States senate, and to the military office there that travels with senators when they travel abroad. And john and i put in a couple hundred thousand miles together. On our way to i think i was going to either china, destination china, i think, and we stopped, and we stopped in hawaii, and the the chief naval of operations was there. Showing me around. Did an event for me, and john kept looking at your mom. Im serious. He said, gosh, shes beautiful. I said, yeah, she is, john. And i said, why not go up and say hi to her . He said, no. No, no, no, no. Im not going to do that. I insisted that they meet, and i take credit. I take credit for you guys. And i just told your mom [ applause ] john and i have someone in common. We both married way above our stations. Way above our stations. Cindy, i should call you madam ambassador, thank you for all youve done, all you do. You continue to do jack and bridget, the entire mccain family and all those who love the mccain family. [ applause ] oh, i didnt see all of up there. Hello dont jump. Dont jump well, i tell you what. Its an honor to be with you. A genuine honor. Governor hobs, youve done an incredible job leader and defender of democracy and always available when ive called. I hope ive been available when you called as well. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests [ applause ] in the end, john mccain thought about the beginning. Five years ago as john was dieing from brain cancer, john wrote a Farewell Letter to the nation, and he said, he served so well in both war and in peace. His word track back centuries to americas founding and then towards a triumphant future. Heres what john wrote. And i quote we are citizens of the world. The worlds greatest republican lick, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil. Americans never quit. They never hide from history. America makes history. John was right. Ive other nation in the world founded on either a grouping by ethnicity, religion, background. Were the most unique nation in the world. Were founded on idea. The only major nation in the world founded on an idea. An idea. We are all created equal. And endowed by an image of god. Endowed by our creator to be able to be treated equal throughout our lives and weve never fully lived up to that idea but never walked away from it. But theres danger walking away from it now the way they talk in this country because a long line of patriots like john mccain kept it from becoming something other than what it is. I often think of our friendship of 40 years. The hammering debates weeds have wed have in the senate. Like two brothers. Argue like hell, go at one another and then go to lunch together. Not a joke. Or john would ride home with me. We traveled the world together, and, by the way, when he found this magnificent woman and got married, im the guy that convinced him to run in arizona as a republican. Bless me, father. [ applause ] got to admit, cindy, i did. I talked to hill. John, you can do this job. The only worry is youll do it too well. Look, running up the sides of the Nations Highest Office when he was running for president and i was on the Vice President ial ticket we still remained friends. The conversation we had, he had, with my son beau attorney general of the state of delaware, decorated major in the u. S. Army was the guy who spent a year in iraq, about serving in a war overseas, about the courage and battle against the same cancer. And that took, that took john and my son. Two weeks ago i thought about john as i was in another part of the world, vietnam. I know excuse me if i it was an emotional trip. I was there to usher in a 50year mark of progress the two countries pushed by john, and i might add, another john. Former Secretary Of State john from massachusetts. Won the silver star as well. Once at war. We are now choosing the highest possible partnership made possible through johns leadership. I mean this sincerely. Think about it. While in hanoi i visited the marker will john endured all the pain. In prison five and a half years, Solitary Confinement two years. Given an opportunity, an opportunity, to come home. He just said a couple things. Beaten, bloodied, bones broken. Isolated, tortured, left unable to raise his arms above his shoulders again. And as i stood there paying my respects i thought about how much i miss my friend. This is not hyperbole. From the bottom of my heart i mean this. I thought about Something Else as well. I thought about how much america missed john right now. How much america needed johns courage and foresight and vision. I thought about what john stood for what he fought for what hes willing to die for. I thought about what we owe john, what i owed him. What we owe each other as well as americans as well. You see, and johns one of those patriots for when they die their forces are never silent. They still speak to us. They tug at both our hearts and our conscience and pose the most profound questions. Who are we . What do we stand for . What do we believe . What will we be . For john, it was Country First. Sounds like, like a movie, but its real with john. Honor. Duty. Decency. Freedom, liberty, democracy. And now history has brought us to a new time of testing. Few of us will ever be asked to endure what john mccain endured. But all of us are being asked right now, what will we do to maintain our democracy . Will we as john wrote never quit . Will we not hide from history but make history ask will we put partisanship aside and put Country First . I say we must. And we will. [ applause ] we will. But its not easy. Its not easy. [ hecklers ] why arent you hang on a second. Ill be happy to meet with you after i speak. Okay . [ heckling ] tell you what. If you shush up ill meet with you immediately after this. Okay . [ applause ] democracy never is easy. As we just demonstrated. The cause the cause is worth giving our all for democracy, makes all things possible. I may begin with the corporate. Democracy means rule of the people. Not rule of monarchs or of the mighty. Regards will of party that means respecting free and Fair Elections. Accepting the outcome. Win or lose. It means you cant love your country only when you win [ applause ] democracy means youre rejecting and Rue Put YatingPolitical Violence regardless of party. Such violence is never, never, Never Acceptable in america. Its undemocratic. [ applause ] it must neveren normalized to advance political power. Democracy means respecting the institutions that govern a free society. That means that adhering to the time of the Declaration Of Independence. We hold these truths to be selfevident. A mission statement. Embodying our constitution. Our system of separation of powers and checks and balances. Our Constitution Bulwark to prevent abuse of power believing in the law rather than believing one way or no way at all. Our institution is in our democracy not just in government. Institution of democracy depends on the constitution, and our character. Our character. And habits of our hearts and our minds. Institutions like the Mccain Institute, and i know the mccain library. From the American Rescue plan i signed into law when i came to office. [ applause ] a library thats going to house johns archives. Host dialogue and debate inspire future leaders around the world to serve Tens Of Thousands Underserved Arizonans as a reminder of our obligation to one another. These principles of democracy are essential tha free society but have always been embattled. Today lets be clear. While we made progress, democracy is still at risk. This is not hyperbole. Its a simple truth. A simple truth. Ive made advance in protection preservation of American Democracy central issue of my presidency and the smepeech i me in gettysburg to the anniversary January 6th Insurrection and Independence Hall if philadelphia. Spoken about the danger of election denialism, Political Violence and battle for the soul of america. Today in america to honor an institution devoted to defense of democracy, named in honor of a true patriot im here to speak about another threat to our democracy. All too often ignored. Threats to our political constitution, to our constitution itself. The very character of our nation. Democracys maintained by adhering to the constitution and the march to perfecting our union by protecting and expanding rights of each successive generation, including that little guy. Hes going to talk about it. Its okay. In my house kids prevail. Okay . This adherence, isnt an option. We cant be situational. We cant be only there when its good for yourself. Its constant and unyielding even when its easy and most important when its hard. For centuries The American Constitution has been a model for the world with other countries adopting we the peopl people as their north star as well. As we know, we know how damning or institutions of democracy, judiciary, executive and legislative have become in the eyes of the american people. Even the world from attacks within the past few years. I know Vergely Every World Leader and when i did as a senator, as Vice President and now. Everywhere i go in the world i met now with over 100 Heads Of State nations of the world. Everywhere i go they look and ask the question, is it going to be okay . Think about this. First meeting i attended of the g7, seven wealthiest nations of the world, in europe, nato meeting. I sat down. I was, in february january after being elected. Late january early february. I was in england. And i sat down, i said americas back. Colonel looked at me, mr. President , he said, for how long . For how long . And then chancellor of germany said, mr. President what would you think if you pick up the paper tomorrow, london times and it says 1,000 people broke down the doors of parliament, marched and killed two and overthrowing an election of a prime minister. What would you think then . What would america think . What would we think . Leading nation of the world having gone through what it went through. And many of you travel internationally. Many of you know people from around the world. Id be surprised if you heard anything different out of concern about, are we okay . Is democracy going to be sustained . And for that institutional damage we see distrust and division among our own people. Im here to tell you we lose these institutions of our government at our own always b. This is an american issue. Ive come to honor the Mccain Institute and library because they are home of a proud republican who put his Country First. Our commitment should be no less. Democracy should unite all americans regardless of affiliation and something dangerous happened in america now. Theres an Extremist Movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy. The Maga Movement. Not every republican, not even majority of republicans adhere to the maga theology. I know ive been able to work with republicans my whole career. No question the Todays Republican Party is intimidated by maga republicans. Fundamentally carried out all institutions of American Democracy as we know it. My friends, theyre not hiding their attacks. Theyre openly promoting them. Attacking free press at enemy of the people. Attacking the rule of law. Voter suppression and election subversion. Did you ever think wed be having debates at this stage of your careers Banning Books . Banning books, burying history . Extremist in congress more determined to shut down the government, to burn the place down than to let the peoples business be done. Our u. S. Military, this is not hyperbole. Ive said it for the last two years. Its the Strongest Military in the history of the world. Not just in the world, history of the world. Most diverse, most powerful in the history of the world. Being accused of being weak and woke . By the opposition. One guy in alabama up for promotion of hundredss these officers . Frankly, these extremists have no idea what theyre talking about. Im serious. Pushing the notion expressed when in office of supplies only to him. Applies tonal him. T only to him. This is dangerous. This president is above the law. No limits. Constitution gave him the right to do whatever he wants as president. Ive never heard a President Say that in jest. Not guided by the constitution. Or by Comment Service and decency towards fellow americans. But vengeance and vick vindictiveness. You see the headlines. Goal, quote all Balance Of Power increasing the president ial authority over every part of the federal government. Quote unquote. Thats what they intend to do once they rid the constitution of checks and ballsens s of checks and balls balances of power. Put them under the thumb of a president. Give the president the power to refuse to spend money that congress appropriated . If he doesnt like what its being spent for . Not veto it. Doesnt like that. Ends there . Get rid of longstanding pr protections for C