Joe biden. Joe on, Vice President biden is here today in peters peterborough, we got to be a little bit louder. There we go. My name is jake, i amcharacter l integrity that we are going to need to repair the soul of this nation. From ohio andlly i grew up in an independent catholic family, so it really broke my heart, seeing a lot of family, friends, teachers, people who i look up to go support donald trump. They raise me to treat others the way you want to be treated, then they support a man like that. Well, that is the antithesis of what joe biden is. He is a strong leader who has always looked out for those who need help to most, whether it is protecting victims of Domestic Violence with the violence helpingwomen act, or bring americans out of the 2008 recession with the american recovery act, joe biden has always looked out for those who need help the most. That is what we need in a commander in chief. That is who is going to be donald trump in november. But we cannot do that alone. If we are going to be able to get donald trump out of this white house, we cannot look and think, what could i have done in order to get this done. I need everyone to pull out your phones. Raise them up high. Let me see your phones, everybody. So i need you to text the 30330. Nh to 30330. Nh to there are also much organizes around with cliff towards clipboards. Can you raise them up . Talk to anyone with the biden tshirts after this event, because we are going to get you biden elected, we are going to get him victory in New Hampshire by knocking on doors and making phone calls, selected this together. Here together. Ht thanks, everyone, for coming out to see joe biden, and we will go ahead shortly. Thanks, everyone. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to gail hernandez. [applause] gail good afternoon, everyone. As you know, im gail hernandez. I live in wilson, just down the road from peterborough, and i am really excited to be here today. One me to lift my microphone . I will try. I am really honored to be here today to introduce a very not al person, and im very special person, because i am just like one of you. I am a voter, a person, a daughter. They havenow if told you anything about me, but i come from a middleclass background. My parents were teachers, they were union representatives. Every two years, we took a vacation because my moms a duck the money. Up the money. D so i appreciate people who are coming to fight for us. I worked in Corporate America for 30 years. Like a lot of people who got laid off, moved up the ladder, which down the ladder, i got laid off this year. It was a little concerning it my time of life, looking toward retirement in a few years. What was more concerning was that i was diagnosed with nonhodgkins lymphoma three years ago. So for me, my health care is of a big concern. Because the Obamabiden Administration improved our cobra benefits, which allowed me to have Health Benefits longer than before, i have 18 months of health care. It afterwards, if the Affordable Care act is gone, i will have to start spending my Retirement Savings to pay my premiums, to pay for any health care. And that could happen at any time for any of us. When we talk about a preexisting condition, we dont just talk about cancer, we talk about asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, Mental Health issues how many of us have not had any of those conditions amongst our friends and family . Today tohy i here introduce this person, because i believe he will fight for all our rights, whether they are womens rights, lgbtq rights, Immigration Rights my family comes to sensorys apart, but immigrants, both legal and illegal two centuries apart, but immigrants, both legal and illegal. When i think about the traits i want in a president , i first want that person to be hitting the ground on day one. I want the world to look and they, there is a person we can the u. S. In to lead back to the greatness that it had only just a few years ago. I am also looking for someone who can bring a team who is experienced, who cares about us, who will stand with him and implement the policies that we all need, all of our health care , whether it be workers rights weeverything we feel like have lost sometimes if you are in my situation. I also want someone who can reach across the aisle immediately. I want someone who has been there, done that, but will improve on been there, done that. Make the Affordable Care act even better than it is, help our environment, and bring in those people and work across the aisle to help us. Finally, i want someone whos honorable and a genuinely good person. And i can say with this person who we all know that we have that in this person. Let us give a loud and welcoming response for Vice President joe biden. [cheers and applause] mr. Biden hello, hello, hello. [cheers and applause] mr. Biden hello. [inaudible] thank you. You, you, thank you, thank thank you. My goodness. Sunday in peterborough. I tell you what, i love this state, for real. You have heard me say that. I go back a long way with a lot of folks who represented this state, and some of you heard me say it before, it reminds me of my home state of delaware in one important respect Everybody Knows everybody. And thats a good thing. Matter of fact, first time i ran for the united dates senate, i was 29 years old does United States senate, i was 29 years old, not old enough to be sworn in. I better be careful. Been a great friend for a long time. But when iran, my state was a ,ittle like yours i ran my state was a little like yours. I remember, i started off my campaign in the southern part of the state of delaware. They speak with a thick accent, for real. We were a border state, not sure what side we want to fight on in those days, for real. The southern part of the state is very southern. They talk at you like you are a good old fella. The way you go in delaware, you work your way from south to north. What you, be careful say, because everyone is related down here. Edgar c bennett you could not c. L him ed, it was edgar if you are not invited to stay in someones home in delaware and have to go to a hotel, you know you are not really that welcome. Edgar c. Seemed a lot more conservative than i was, but were happy to have me to go. So we went to mass and then he wanted me to go to his church in downtown selby ville. It was a beautiful church, methodist church, and had the graveyard in the front like the Old Catholic Church i belong to in upstate delaware, st. Josephs. You walk through the headstones and the entrance to go up. The minister was very kind to me when i showed up at the church with him. He said, we have with us joe biden, running for the united United States senate. Hopefully he will greet the parishioners as they walk out. I did not expect that, but i was very flattered. So i stood there with the minister shaking hands with everybody. Edgar seat was standing under these big oak trees that took up the whole church area. Afterwards, is walked up and said, it went ok. Except for that horses tail over there. He said of, that is my first cousin, edgar. [laughter] mr. Biden true story. I want to get your questions, so i will be relatively brief. Number one, there is an overwhelming amount of issues that we have to deal with right now, but the single most consequential issue you on though, mr. Mayor, if we get four more years of donald trump, it is going to change who we are character of our country. That is not hyperbole, i believe that to be true. It matters a lot what we are going to do and who we are going to pick. For the senate, i did the same thing when i announced for president , state merely why i was running when i ran for president. Theres three reasons. One, to restore the soul of this country, because i think what has happened, especially after you saw what happened in charlottesville, with those people coming out of the woods, screeching, their veins bulging, a young woman got killed and they asked the president what they thought, and he said there were very fine people on both sides. No president has never said anything like that, for real. Maybe Andrew Jackson said Something Like that before the civil war, but no president has ever said anything like that. That is one of the reasons i am running, to restore a sense of decency and honor. We hold those truths to be selfevident. We have never walked away from them before. The president has this administration has walked away from them, because every time, every generation has moved the of conclusion inclusion wider and wider and wider, and it is being shutdown. I think it is being corrosive for the country. The second reason i said i was running, to restore the middle class. The middle class has taken a beating. We used to be the wealthiest middle class in the world. We are no longer the wealthiest middle class in the world. All the data shows that 60 of the American People believe that their children will never have the standard of living may have had. We have never thought that way before in the last century. We have never lost that sense of optimism before, and a lot of people are worried. This time when we rebuild the middle class, we have to bring everybody along. Everybody along. From the disabled to people of caller, as well as hardworking people my dad would say i am not looking for a handout, i want them to understand my problem, the government. Just give me a shot. The third reason i was running is because we had to unite the country. Was pretty roundly criticized by a number of my colleagues, all 900 running from the primary no, there are some really good people. They really are. They are good people. They would say yeah, joe biden used to be able to put everything together before, remember . Heated the arms control treaties, he did and they would go through all the things i have done, but that was the old days. This Republican Party is different. It is different, but it was only that we did ao lot of these things. I think unifying the country is absolutely critical. I do not think it is naive i understand this new republic and party well. Receiving end the of Donald Trumps billion dollars of ads trying to this merge my only surviving son, going after my family, going after me i understand them. I understand them well. Me, it isnot about about you. It is about the people in this room and around the country. President s should not hold grudges. They should be elected to run and represent all the people. All the people. Immigrants, republicans, and independents, because democrats, republicans, and weependents, because if cant come together we can do anything. This country is designed to require consensus. Without it, there is nothing that can get done other than the abuse of power by a president who says, i cant get it done though i am just going to go ahead and do it. I do not think it is naive at all to talk about uniting the country. And the need to do it. I believe we can, because i refuse to accept the proposition some of the people i am running with in this nomination say to accept the notion that we will be forever at war with one another. It cannot be sustained in america. It cannot be sustained. It is not who we are. [applause] mr. Biden so we have to. We cannot surrender the notion. It is going to be hard. It is going to be hard. But i have gotten a lot of hard things done before. Does not mean it is not going to be hard this time. Here is the deal. You can get republican sometimes in the house and senate to vote with you, and when you dont, you go out and beat them. And i do not mean by going after their personalities or the dirty politics of going after their motives. Look at what has happened in american politics. Even small states that are close like yours and mine. I come to you and i say, look. I think you are in the pocket of big business. I think you are immoral. I think you are this by the way, lets work out a deal on workoutre going to Climate Change. Fat chance. Fromrned a long time ago mike mansfield, the majority leader from montana, more integrity in his Little Finger than most people hadnt hit their whole body had in their whole body, for real. Is not always appropriate to question a man or womans motives, but it is always appropriate to question their judgment. You do not know their motives. Question their judgment. Then you can get something passed. When in fact a lot has changed with this president. Carniee cardi show show comes through town and you find out there are no peanuts under the three shells, you usually know better the second time. Better the second time. [laughter] mr. Biden but heres the deal. When in fact so much has changed, i think the environment is so right for us to do so much not as democrats or republicans, but as a nation. We can only 21st century. The 21st century. I have never been more optimistic in my life about the prospects of this country. Folks, look. It, we are inbout a situation where youve got to give when the republicans disagree with us, if im your if they disagree with us, here is the deal. Take it to them in their districts. Campaign. For example, i went to 24 states 67, 60 9 ior am not sure the number of candidates last time out in 2018. The only guy invited in all the states, from alabama to montana to colorado to pennsylvania, state that we lost and or were close. Guess what we did . We did not go after the personalities of the people we ran against, we said we are going to win 41 feet and take back the house. Seats. 41 academyay, four graduates, one the first marine fighter pilot, dropping bombs. This is an incredible group. What did we do . We said, all of a sudden when people realized remember, we lost the house when we passed obamacare. People said, you lost because it is not popular. Then what happened . Then along came the republicans in this state and others and said, we are going to take away obamacare. We are not going to cover preexisting conditions anymore. You cannot keep your child on your healthcare policy until age 26 anymore, etc. Everyone said well, what . Because people did not even know it was obamacare. I said to the president i keep on picking on john, but john knows mr. President , you have to take a victory lap here. You have to explain it. I got in trouble are saying we should have a fireside chat remember that . Said, we dontnt have time. Theres too many things we have to face to take a victory lap. It wasnt until people started to take it away that people started to realize, whoa. If you are a state representative, governor, your senator, your congressman wants to take away this thing you happy. You have. People said no. And we won. You cannot convince, you go out and make the case. People know i am concluding with this and i will go to questions, because there are so many issues i want to talk to you about, from education to Climate Change, to anything you about. Talk to me Climate Change through a whole range of issues, the violence against women act, which they are trying to kill, a whole range of things. Everybody who knows who donald trump is i am not being facetious. This is reality. Even the supporters know who he is. Who he is, people like cam, they know who he is. None of them are arguing that they want their kids to grow up with the same character, but they know who he is. They decided they like him because of things he did or dongs democrats did not or whatever. We have to let them know that we choose hope over fear. Because he feeds on feeding fear toop people. If you say the lie as much as you can, it breaks through. If you say it and say it and say it we have to demonstrate choose truth overlies. We choose science over fiction. Over fiction. [applause] mr. Biden for real. We got a lot of work cut out for us. I want to start off by thanking everyone under the age of 15. We owe you big, kiddo. I dont know how you got here, but after this is over, come up and talk to me. Everybody under 15, you get Something Special today, because this has to be boring, boring, boring for you. Thank you. My mother would often say joey, hush up and take some questions. So fire away. We have people in the audience, give the microphone to them forello, thank you so much being here today. I want to say thank you for your work on the aca. My child was born super sick and before the aca lifted lifetime reallyce caps, i just appreciate it. With all these efforts to dismantle the aca, what are you going to ensure that all children receive the health care that they need and can access the medical services they require . Mr. Biden what was your first name . Sarah. Mr. Biden sarah. You could hear a crack in sarahs voice there, because many of you have experienced the same thing. When i first got elected, before i got sworn in, i was in a tractortrailer blindsided my wife and daughter christmas shopping, and killed my wife and daughter. My sons survived. But what happened, i have insurance. That ihe peace of mind would be able to get them good. Octors you know, i got hospitalized years ago with a cranial aneurysm. I was hospitalized the couple of times. They took the top of my head off the second time, said they could not find the brain the first time. [laughter] mr. Biden but those nurses gave you hope. Beau, attorney general, a decorated war hero for real. A year in iraq, six months in cozumel for before that. Was diagnosednd with glioblastoma, given months. Was not could he would he live, it was when. Run out of coverage. Suffer peace. You are on your own. One of the things my dad used to entitledat everyone is to be treated with dignity. How can a parent maintain their dignity when they have a dying damn child and there is not a it . Howou can do about can a parent maintain they have ay where child in school i cannot figure out a way to pay to get them there. Health care should be a right, not a privilege. Here is what i suppose. Go into excruciating detail, but if you want me to do more, let me know. Number one, i take obamacare and further subsidize it so it costs less to get into obamacare for everyone, no matter what your income is, so you can get what if youl a gold plan, and can afford, if you have good income, you can buy into it and in fact, you will not have a deductible more than 1000. That is the gold plan. You do not have to buy that plan. You can buy a cheaper plan if you would like. For those who cannot afford health care pl