Getting up the highway to ski on blue ice sometimes. Concord,school in where i would really look forward to taking that first cut of the hockey season on the black ice. Now the ice does not even freeze. So it is hard to do today. But i love the primary tradition of this state. Not just because you voted for me. [laughter] it goes a lot farther back than that. When i was 24 years old, stationed on the other of the broadcasts andio weeks old newspapers in a mail pouch that finally got to us shared with me my idealized introduction to the phenomenon of the New Hampshire primary. After one of my closest friends in college killed in combat, New Hampshire was no longer just the place i what to high school. I went to high school. In the winter of 1968, New Hampshire was Something Else entirely. Some of you here remember that closely. Ageons of young people my legions of young people my age, an army of kids for peace, caring pamphlets while i was caring a guy the thousand miles away. Just kids. Knocking on doors. The Peanut Butter and jelly brigade, we called them. They proved themselves powerful enough to send a message all over the world. That Lyndon Johnson could not be president anymore because of vietnam. [applause] it was an earthquake. It was palpable. Yes, it deserves to be applauded because you did it. [applause] grassroots prairie fire and frankly it was a great lesson for me, in the power of people. That is what we need now. In my ownater president ial campaign, New Hampshire taught me another lesson or two. Sometimes the best lessons were those learned the hard way. At the town Hall Meetings where the air crackled with skepticism occasionally. As he3, it is no secret, came into december, my campaign was struggling a bit. Remember upou all the highway toward franconia, the old man of the mountain. Reporter wrote that i looked like the old man of the mountain. [laughter] that is the half of it, because no sooner did he write that i looks like the old man of the mountain than the old man of the mountain crumbled and fell down. [laughter] so i do not think that was a particularly good metaphor. Guess what, you also through that. We saw through that and we fought room for room, gymnasium fort to maze them, fire hall for fire hall. And you sent. Gymnasium. M for fire hall for fire hall. And you listened. This state give this people a lot of chance to prove themselves. Youre also tough judges. You ought to beat. You bring those notebooks you meet people a bunch of times. Youre right on the comparison of candidates. You care. You really care. Because you understand the responsibility that goes beyond just a primary vote in New Hampshire. Witness what i said about Lyndon Johnson. You carry that responsibly on your shoulders and i learned that december and january here in New Hampshire does not just ice. The frost and black it kicks off decision time. To sendnt when you get this nation on the course to pick a president. The stretch run to the new have to primary. And folks, that is when i learned people really buckle down and make a decision. Do you know what the decision is, i think . Who can be president of the United States and [applause] and, not just in theory, but who can get elected. Who can win the race. Who can bring people together all around this country and get the job done. That is why i know that here in New Hampshire, we are in the first steps right now, of beginning the process of throwing that wrecking crew out of the white house. [applause] and putting some buddy in there whos going to get the job done. [applause] this is our chance to put common sense and decency and yes, sanity back into 1600 pencil main avenue. [applause] fori am not here just annual reason. Im here because i know to my core, i know in my got, i know in my heart, i know in my mind, i have seen it and work with his men. I know that joe biden is a person who can beat donald trump and bring this country back together and get the job done. [applause] we spent 24 years together in the United States senate and the only team that spent more effort cooperating with each other that us was donald trump and Vladimir Putin. [laughter] so let me make this clear. I am not here because of the length of time i served with joe. I have known him. We go back to 1971 and the antiwar demonstrations and earth day and all of those efforts, when we did change the world. And it is not because i have known him so long that im here. It is because i have known him so well. I know this man. Having had the, great privilege of representing our nation around the world as secretary of state, i know that the world is in trouble. And the United States along with it. Our democracy is not working the way it ought to be. Too many are disenfranchised. Too many separated from the upper end of the income level. In any country that sees 51 of its earnings go to 1 of its people, is living with an unsustainable political equation. And we need a president like joe biden to change that equation. [applause] fmr. Sec. Kerry one of the things i learned a secretary of state is if the United States is absent, other countries do not just automatically step up to make the difference. I think Madeleine Albright called us the indispensable nation. I want you to thing about what happened while joe biden and president obama for the leadership of our nation. , the southter issue china sea where we stood up for freedom of navigation caller country after country. Country after country we stop for human rights and the rights of people to be franchised and have the row does have the boat. Have a vote. Afghanistan where we together huge coalition to protect the interest of our nation. Ofs were together coalition 68 plus nations to defeat isis and restore the sense of rule and order in our world. My friends, we have our work cut out for us. That is why i have started this new effort, this and varmint effort. Environment this effort. The Climate Crisis is existential. Science tells us that. It is time we have a president of the United States who not only understands the science he is reading, but who believes in the science that he is reading. And that is what we need to do. [applause] the number two crisis is trumps Foreign Policy, but the solution to that is elections. The solution to climate will require us to bring the world together, all of us. The Climate Crisis is extorted narrowly big is extraordinarily big, but not that complicated. The solution is already here. It is called energy policy. Structure make the right choices, we can win this war, we can win this battle. Who can bring, the question now is who has the experience, who has the relationships, who has the gravitas and the credibility of the left to, on day one, bring to the table all of the automakers and get them to accelerate the rate at which we move to electric . Someone has to bring that Public Utilities and the governors, the construction copies of our nation to build the greatest Structure Program we have ever had, to transition to a grid for our country that can be as margaret and that begins to allow us to use the Energy Produced on one side of the country and the other side of the country. This is not rocket science. You know what is missing today . What is missing is leadership. What is missing is the will to do this. I have watched this guy create will where there was not any and provide leadership where there was not any. That is why we need to thing about the reality of what this election really means. We need a president of the United States who understands that there are millions of good paying jobs for working people and they are there for the taking and the making, if we do our job. This is not scary. The only thing that is scary is the unwillingness of a leader of the United States to recognize the reality and to call it a chinese hoax, rather than lead the nation to the table to get the job done. Know, we need a president who buys into the reality that the greatest market the world has ever known is the energy market. 4. 5 billion users today. It is going up to 9 billion users over the course of the next 30 years. It is already a multitrillion dollar market. Already an american in america the Fastest Growing job solar power technician. The second Fastest Growing job, wind turbine technician. Far more than involved in a coal industry. And we know the consequences of coal today we need a present who understands that the next great Infrastructure Initiative of our nations to meet the challenge of this crisis, and to make it america. To make eye while place where you become the saudi arabia of wind power to make iowa the sadia merrick the saudi arabia of wind power. We take carbonre dioxide out of the air and put it to use. Why dont we have a multiply dollar investment effort and that, like john kennedy asked us to put together to go to the moon . Joe biden understands that and i want a president of the United States there on day one who has the ability to catch up for lost time. This is the man to do that. And folks. You havere works to help us get there. I know how New Hampshire works. [applause] also clear that never has been more important to have a president who genuinely delivers for the middle class of our country. Life is hard still for too many people. Too many people fighting to make up for the last ground of 2008 and for the fiscal crisis, which by the way, president obama and Vice President biden brought us back from the brink of that crisis. [applause] and the fact is, one of the reasons im here today is i biden fromthat joe scranton, pennsylvania, grew up understanding the challenges of what it means to pay those bills. What it means to find a job. His own father had to move to do that. This is a man comes from the middle class, who will fight for the middle class. Not a phony who comes down a golden plated escalator and promises to get rid of a swamp which he feeds with more alligators than we have ever seen before. Are you kidding me . [applause] [cheers and applause] fmr. Sec. Kerry so call it whatever you want. Experience, wisdom, muscle memory. Joe biden is like the new england patriots. Fun to watch the promise and potential of young quarterbacks. But come february, i like having an experienced quarterback like tom brady calling those plays. [applause] so, when chairman biden became Vice President biden, he did not just hand me a gavel. He had to be a legacy of getting things done with integrity and bipartisanship. Of shared experiences, that we had, traveling hundreds of thousands of miles around the world because he was chairman of the Foreign Relations committee and i served on it with a whole bunch of people ahead of me like pulsar bins and chris dodd. I never thought i would be chairman of any committee. Paul sarbins and im ever in 2008 when russian tanks rolled into a neighboring country called georgia. It was chairman joe biden who immediately picked up the phone. Harry did not pick up the phone to ask he did not pick up the phone to ask for a personal favor to do with that election in the United States. He picked up the phone to find out what america could do doubt the president of that country, and that country, survive. [applause] but he did not stop with a phone call. He got on a plane right away. He flew overnight and sat on a hilltop in georgia without president , of our democratic ally. And he made it clear the United States stands with the forces of freedom, not the darkness of dictatorship. [applause] so, just think about it. Stooges and fake uniforms rolled in eight years later, rolled into ukraine, candidate trump also had a test. And his first instinct was to say, it is not my problem. It is not our problem. Basically, he said, Vladimir Putin can have crimea. So ask yourselves, when they do it again somewhere. Who is donald trump going to call . What friends does he have in the world . Besides kim jongun and v are putin . Jongunpretty sure kim actually unfriended him this past week. [applause] so folks we need a president like joe biden who knows in his got the difference between our adversaries and our allies. Who leads on the world stage. Not a president who is openly mocked and laughed out by our , soest allies in the world personally disturbed, like a child in a playground, that he picks up his marbles and goes home, slicks away in the dark of night, and starts tweeting in solitude. We need a president who leads where those leaders of other countries respect him, like him, understand our values, share the same direction which the United States of america sacrificed for in world war ii. For the world we built after world war ii, which deserves the same Leadership Today as we gave it then. That is what we need in the white house. [applause] we need a president who, when he stands next to Vladimir Putin, a few feet away, he does not look at him and Say Something like, i do not see any reason why russia would have attacked our election. And throughout the entire Intelligence Community and not work of the United States of america under the bus in one network of thend United States of america. You do not see any reason why russia would attack our democracy . For that statement alone i do not see any reason why anyone would give this present four more years. President is folks, lets get down to basics here. I would love to be, and i know the Vice President would. I would love to take your questions all day long. That is how i learned the most when i was running. I love it. I cannot do that today because im trying to make sure that i am making as clear an argument as i can as to why i care about this. A lifetime of service and i do not come to the slightly. Nor does he. But i know the value of experience. Since when did it not matter . Youre going to have heart surgery and youre going to ask for the most experienced of a capable person. This is big stuff now. Much is at stake. Sitve seen this man said in the situation room in the white house when tough choices were in front of us. A bowl in africa, we were told one Million People were going to die in four months. We did not do anything paired we did not know what we did not know but the president and Vice President had the courage to send 3000 plus troops to west africa, to help build the capacity to deliver lifesaving health care. We delivered that care paired and guess what . A tiny fraction of those people died over the course of the next months. [applause] these are lonely and tough decisions, folks. And im asking you over these next weeks, think about the value of that experience and the choices you make in life. That are based on some experience. When i became secretary of state, joe wasnt advocate and ally for the hardest issues, for diplomacy to end the Iranian Nuclear threat. The king of arabia at was telling me and im sure he told the Vice President , you have to bomb iran. The president of egypt, you must. Bomb iran. The Prime Minister of israel came over to the country and set i want permission to bomb iran. I want the green light from you guys, will you back me up . And president obama had the intelligence and fortitude to whoa, we have to do diplomacy before we take Young Americans and send them to war. That is part of the test. I know that donald trump has let that genie back out of the bottle now. Everything happening in the middle east today was foreseeable and has been foreseen. This is dangerous stuff, folks. Isis. K, measure when isis happened they were sweeping across syria about to take baghdad. Mount singe art had the yazidis who are about to be wiped out in an act of genocide and president obama decided to send bombers. But we do not set american bombers. We built a coalition. We got the arab countries together and for the first time in history, sunni arab countries bombed sunni arabs. Because they understood what was at stake. That is leadership. This guy is threatened, walks away, promises, rattles his saber, has sweetheart meetings with the man he says he loves who happens to be the worst tyrant on the face of the planet. I want a man there with basic decency at a strength of a who understands the difference between who is a friend and who is not that is joe biden. Because he has the expense to do it. [applause] i ask you to thing about the difference between two people. The difference between joe biden and donald trump is the not donaldthat is trump, i hope . Interrupter, an disruptor, that is what he does. [laughter] but, and this is serious. Think about lifestyle think about life choices. Think about the history of a lifetime. Think about a man who lost his wife and child, two kids survives and an accident days after he is elected to the United States senate, before his even sworn in. And he gets through that, thinking, g, i shouldnt go to the senate, i have to take care my kids. This is a man who has been tested publicly. And so have his skills as a leader. As a senator, he s