Where is vanessa . Thank you vanessa. Thank you for that introduction and for your leadership and all that you do here in the community in phoenix. It is good to be in the house of labor. Earlier today, joe and i had a chance to visit a memorial. And pay tribute to the native americans who served our country and uniform. We were joined by someone i greatly admire. I was fortunate to serve with john mccain and what an incredible american. He was a patriot of the highest order. Cindy is supporting our campaign. Isnt that great . Shes doing it because she knows that joe and i will always do what she and john did. That is put our country first. We think cindy. We are so excited to be here in arizona today. Later, we will talk with workers and Small Business owners who are working so hard and doing everything right, but they are still struggling to get by. They are who i was thinking about last night at the debate. This election, more than any other in our lifetime, will affect every part of our lives. With consequences that may last generations. And there is so much at stake. Our nation is at a crossroads. Just think, all at the same time, we are experiencing the pandemic, the recession, a reckoning on racial justice, a changing climate that is battering our coastlines and setting the west on fire, and the future of health care hangs on top of it all. Because you see, President Trump is in the Supreme Court right now trying to get rid of the Affordable Care act. And along with senate republicans, he is trying to jam through a Supreme Court justice who will do exactly that. Who will rip away protections from as many as 2. 8 million arizonans with preexisting conditions. 2. 8 arizonans with preexisting conditions. And while this president did not bring the virus to our shores, his reckless disregard for human life and for the wellbeing of the American People has allowed it to spread the way we have seen in the casualties have been in normas. Enormous. Lets not make any mistake. His refusal to contain this virus is what has wreaked havoc on our economy. And i know folks are hurting but i also know this. We can overcome these challenges. If we elect joe biden as our next president. [applause] and here is the thing. Joe has had a plan for covid at least since march. He has been talking about this, he knows what this means and the kind of leadership that is required to get it under control. Joe knows these things. You may have seen the debate last night. Even when joe did not have the briefings that donald trump and mike pence hat on january 28, joan knew because of experience that this could be serious and under his leadership, we will contain this virus and save lives and build our economy back better than before. Joe will be a president who restores the soul of our nation. He will be a president who creates good paying jobs and eases the burden on working families. Joe wilby a president above be a president who unites the American People. Democrat and republican and independent, old and young, from all backgrounds and races to meet the greatest challenges of our time. I plan on being right by his side and [applause] we will be ready on day one. Here is the thing, arizona. We need your help. We have only 26 days lets not wake up the day after the election wishing we had done more. Lets organize and vote in numbers no one has ever seen before. Lets send mark kelly to the senate. [applause] vote like your life depends on it because right now, it really does. Yesterday, arizona, vote by mail ballots were shipped to homes across this state and early in person voting has started, including at the new Mcdowell SquareVoting Center about a mile from here. So be a first week voter. Voter. Week there are four ways to vote in arizona. You can vote by mail, you can drop off your ballot at a dropbox, you can vote early in person, or you can vote in person on election day. To learn more, go to iwillvote. Com az. Make a plan. Write down when, where, and how you will vote. And tell everyone you know to do the same. Because arizonas future, americas future is in your hands. So lets elect joe biden as the next president of the United States of america and ladies and gentlemen, i introduce to you the great joe biden. [applause] mr. Biden hello, arizona. [applause] it is great to be back. It really is. It is great to be back. Thank you, kamala. Thank you, vanessa. We appreciate it very much. We met backstage and the first instinct we had was to hug each other, but no, we have to stay 12 feet apart. I want to give a special thanks to ruben for being here. Big deal, man. I am serious. I noticed that he did something. This is what we call a postmans holiday, coming to hear another politician speak. And putting on a tie when he shows up without a tie. I appreciate it. Thank you. I appreciate it. The president and coo of the southwest regional council. Pete rodriguez. Where are you . Is in here or is he in his office . I want to thank him. He is not here now . Also, the president of local 1912. You have all been with me. Kamala and i were talking coming down the hall. We said, not a joke, it was coincidental, she said, i love the carpenters, the first outfit that endorsed me when i ran for attorney general in San Francisco where the carpenters. Were the carpenters. I said, i remember a guy, president of the Carpenters Union from new castle, delaware a 350yearold city, was the , first want to endorse me as well. Been with me my whole career. The president has been a long time friend, we have worked together a long time. 520,000 carpenters, that is an Incredible Army to have behind you. Im telling you, you have my whole career. I hope you know i have had yours as well. When i was growing up in scranton, the carpenters brought me to the dance and we are going home together. You are going to have a seat at the table. Folks, people who shaped the skylines, who built the foundations we rely on, the carpenters. Labor brought me to dance and the only reason why ive able to run for president is because of labor. I have never forgotten everything you have done for me and you have done for the country. I really mean it. You know i get in trouble for , saying this, but it is true. You are the backbone of america, the spine of america. You are the ones you build the who built the country not , wall street and ceos, you are the ones who are going to be build it again and you are going to build it back better for real. Kamala and i cant thank you enough. Folks i dont know if you caught , it, but the senator had a heck of a night last night. [applause] i tell you what, you want to give me credit for knowing how to pick a vice president. I could not be prouder. She is like a younger sister. I could not be prouder to run alongside such a leader with remarkable character and vision. Who always looking out for the is people. Always somebody else, not her, always. I want to tell you something. Kamala and i are about to kick off a tour visiting businesses in this community. Small businesses in this community and all communities are more responsible for more jobs in the community, Small Business owners, they are busting their next, than the their next than the major corporations. Small businesses create more jobs than the Major Corporate entities. This community has found itself having to go through real challenging times. The congressman knows more about he has forgotten about it than most people know. Like chef solana, the chef owns two restaurants in phoenix. When they were struck by covid, she had to close one of them down. She is working hard to keep the other one afloat. We are going to be visiting it later this afternoon. It isnt easy. But the loan they were able to secure back in the spring because of legislation passed by democrats in the house helps for a little while but it was not enough. She is scraping by, week to week trying to look out for her 10 , employees, some of whom have been with her for decades. On top of that, she is facing a terminal disease. She had to cancel her own Health Insurance after finishing a round of treatment to recently just to make ends meet. It is devastating. It is heartbreaking. It is wrong. Every american should be upset about what she is going through. I think you all are. I know i am because i know we know it did not have to happen. If they had just done what you passed, just moved forward. Then, i will talk about in a minute. But her story is increasingly a common story of arizona workers and Small Business owners. Too many are facing hard times now. They are trying their best but it never feels like it is enough. You are not looking for a handout, you are just looking for a fair shot. Just watched an even shot. All they are looking for. That is how my dad felt when he could not find work when cold coal died. He had to take us up the longest walk a parent ever has to take to say, im sorry, you cant go back to st. Pauls, that has dad has lost his job, im going to have to move. I remember him taking us to our grandpas house, me and my brother and my sister and my mom who was shortly going to have another child and i thought , about how hard it must have been for my dad, so many people in this town have done the same thing, had to go to his fatherinlaw and say, i have to ask a favor. I know how much pride it cost him. Can you take care of that for a year . I will be back. I will be home every weekend. It seems like the end of the world but by the time he was able to get a good job, enough to get us an apartment in delaware, he ended up then getting a good job, a decent job managing a car dealership. He worked hard to build a decent middleclass life. He had an expression. He would always say this i mean , this sincerely. He said, i dont expect the government to solve my problems, but i expect them to at least understand my problems. Just understand them. America deserves a president who understands what the American People are going through. Who sees who you are, what you want to be, who cares about your health, your prosperity, your dream, your american dream. You are facing real challenges right now and the last thing you , need is a president to exacerbates them. Who ignores you. Im going to say it, i have been saying it for a while. This is my perspective of scranton. The president looks down on us. Who thinks that if you put your life on the line for the nation, you are a loser, a sucker. This is what we were talking about with cindy. My son beau passed away now coming on five years, it seems like yesterday, won the bronze star, he volunteered, he was attorney general, he had to make an exception to go to iraq for a year. I promise you, he was not a loser, he was not a sucker. He, like all the veterans we met with this afternoon alongside cindy mccain, are patriots. They are people who understand that being an american is about recognizing that there are some things bigger than yourself. Cindys husband john mccain, who i had the privilege of asking me to do his eulogy, we used to argue, we were like brothers, we would fight like hell, but we always ended up together. Mr. Biden that is how it used to be. He was not a loser. They are all heroes. They deserve better than the say anything to deflect responsibility for any mistake he makes. He recently said he said i got it from blue star parents, people who lost a child in battle. He said i like to get they like to get close to me and hug me and i dont know how to say no. , we have paid too high a price already for donald trump divisiveness. Americans have lost their lives due to this virus. Remove more every single day. Nearly 6000 arizonans have been lost. Nearly 6000 gone. Gone. Than 220 thousand arizonans have been affected infected with covid. 122,000 jobs in arizona. Nine times more arizonans are on unemployment each week than before this crisis hit. Businesses are closing. Schools are not back to normal. Donald trump cannot focus on what matters. House cast the socalled heroes act to get people on their feet again. Some time ago. But the president and Mitch Mcconnell did nothing to move the legislation. Statesf cities and are going bankrupt. Our founders are smart. The reason they wrote the constitution the way they did is the congress, the senate, the house, the government could spend in order to compensate for being able to make sure we got out of the hole. Trump is spending more time i have been calling him out on this for the last four months. Bunkerld get out of his and out of the sand trap on his golf courses. Not a joke. Think about it. Tried to bring democrats and republicans together in the white house to try and get a settlement. Not once. President name me a in the lifetime of any of you that refused to deal that way in the middle of a crisis. Congresseadership, the together resolved the issue is something that was not on his watch. The congress im sure you were not surprised by it on tuesday, he announced he is walking away from negotiations to provide additional relief for working Social Security will be bankrupt by 2023. Ideaits rely on the whole of a dignified retirement. The fact is, President Trump can only see the world from park avenue. That is why he led big corporations to jump to the front lines to get the recovery money while Small Businesses struggled to reopen. People dont know because it is so complicated. So much is happening. Congress can tell you. There was an Inspector General that they appointed. Somebody who had independent capacity to look into anything that was being done in the money being spent. It hundred billion dollars i was responsible for. Every two weeks, i met with them in detail. To know exactly where the money was going. What is the first thing the president did . He fired the Inspector General. Think about that. Money was the supposed to go to Small Businesses the first time around. It went to the maralago crowd, the wealthy. Not so true,is was i would be reluctant to say it because it sounds so bizarre. Forgotten the has people he said he is fighting for. I will never forget, because i see the world from where i grew up in scranton and claymont. Class, workingle class, built this country, and unions built the middle class. I measure economic success, what families are talking about sitting around their kitchen tables. About having a decent job and benefits, about keeping the Small Business dream alive, about the conversations that took place this morning. We need four new tires. We have to wait. Cannot afford to get them. Cannot do it. Who is going to tell her she cannot go back to Community College because we just cant borrow any money anymore or you have 20 Million People today, 20 Million People, including here in arizona, who are worried about whether they can pay this months mortgage payment. 20 million. Look at all the people who are worried that they are going to get thrown out of their industries if they cannot pay the rent. These guys provided for all of that. Nothing. Rown out industry if thy cannot pay the rent. These guys provided for all of that. Nothing. Being able to look your kid in the eye. Joey, used to say that your job is a lot more than about your paycheck. It is about dignity, your place in the community. About respect. It is about being able to look your kid in the eye and say, it is going to be ok. And mean it. That is what kamala and i are focusing on. To say to our kids, it is going to be ok. That is what we are talking about. We are going to get this virus under control. Were going to reopen safely and strongly. If we are going to get anything we have have to get to do it together. Doneave a lot of things show, but that was the past. If we cannot bring the country together, we are dead. This is a democracy that depends on a consensus. You have to bring people together. It was somewhat presumptuous of me, but i made a major speech that i worked on really hard in gettysburg, pennsylvania. I did it two days ago. Terms,d about in lincoln that we have to bring america together. We cannot hold grudges. Proudnning with a democrat, with a capital d. By will be an american president , not a democrat president. I will work hard for those who did not support me. I promise you. Look america. That is the job of the president. It is a duty to care. For everybody. Doctors who voted for. After all that we have been through. All the americans have accomplished, we cannot allow ourselves to remain divided. Our hands, power in and do note that power is . The little sticker that you have on. The power to vote. You can still register here in arizona to vote. Early voting has already begun. The vast majority of arizonans vote by mail. Those ballots start to arrive at the next couple of days. Kamala and i are saying that the best thing that you can do is to return your ballot quickly, and not risk delays. Turn the mailin ballot as soon as you can to make sure that your voice is heard. Your voice can overcome correct and your voice through your vote, can overcome every one of the challenges that we face. You know what they are setting up . The argument that these votes are not going to matter. You saw what happens today with the fbi. The fbi arrested a group of militiamen. Planned toanned and go in and kidnap the governor of michigan. Remember those guys would be assault rifles standing in their driveways . The president saying things in my debate with them, to the proud boys, and all white the premises group, stands down and stand ready . This is serious stuff. We cannot just win by a vote. We have to all turn out. We can be better than we have seen. We cant be what we are at our breasts. Be what we are at our best. Best, we are that United States of america. Prosaic thing. The fact is, americans never fail. When standing up together. We are the only nation in the world that has come out of every crisis, war and economic, stronger than we went into the crisis. Optimistic more today about americas chances at home and in the world than i have been in a long time. I work with a lot of president s. I mean it. We have a chance. To not only improve our country, but to change the world. We have the most powerful military in the history of the world, but that