Thank you for your leadership in all your work. Congressman lawson, thank you for sending him to d. C. Because i have seen him in rooms when the cameras on and rooms when the cameras are off and he is always fighting. Always fighting for florida so can we please here for congressman lawson . [applause] who voted today . There we go. I came to florida today to help kick off early voting. I came to thank you, everybody here, for all you are doing. Let me tell you something, the voters of florida, you guys are going to determine the outcome of this election, im sure of it. You will determine the outcome of this election. The votes that you will cast, the votes that you have cast, the boats just the folks you get to go vote and remind everybody to vote early between today and sunday, november 1, are going to have an impact on people you may never meet. People who may never know your name but because you here in ,lorida voted in your number voted with your voice and the power of your voice, you will very likely determine the outcome of this election. I am here on behalf of joe biden and myself to say thank you. To say thank you. Look, i dont have to tell everybody here, there is so much at stake in this election. There is so much at stake. Who watched the debate . Weve actually had to. We have had two debates but i really meant the town hall. Did you see joe biden in that town hall . Wasnt he spectacular . , youve onlyion got two choices. And i think what we saw in those town halls last week really made clear that there is a distinct difference between the two choices being presented to the American People. On the one hand, you have joe biden who is dedicated to building on the success that he and president barack obama created with the Affordable Care act which brought health care to over 20 Million People. And an initiative born out of an understanding and belief that the active health airship of health care should be of right and not a privilege to those who can afford it. The Affordable Care act said it just isnt right when people who have preexisting conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, breast cancer, that they be denied coverage because an Insurance Company says we dont cover it if you have a preexisting condition and they got rid of that band and they said no longer can you deny people access to health care if they have a preexisting condition. Biden has been fighting for working people his entire life. On the other hand, you have donald trump who right now with his boy bill barr is in the United StatesSupreme Court trying to sue against the Affordable Care act and if they are successful, they will get rid of coverage that came to over 20 Million People. They will lose the protections for all of the people who need coverage if they have preexisting conditions. This is what they are up to and it is sinful. It is shameful. There is a clear contrast here. On the one hand, you have joe biden, who is saying we will have middleclass tax cuts, taxes will not be raised on anyone making less than 400,000 per year. On the other hand, you have donald trump, who passed a tax bill benefiting the top 1 and the and the biggest corporations of america. In florida, you know that right now people are hurting. People are suffering. In florida right now, one in describingdians is members of their household as being hungry. We are in the midst of a hunger crisis in america. Now, one inight five floridians is describing themselves as being unable to pay their rent in september. Trump,is man, donald would like you to believe that everything is ok because his measure of the success of the economy is based on the stock market. Our measure is based on how working people are doing and how are you doing . Weve got a lot of work to do. When we think about the fact that we are all wearing masks. The only reason im not wearing one of the moment is because i am this far away from everyone. We are in the midst of a pandemic. Lets remember the recent history on this. Thank to bob woodward, we know donald trump was informed in january, january 28, of the nature of this pandemic. He was informed that it was lethal and would kill five times as many people as the flu. He was informed it could her children. He was informed that it was contagious and air bound and what did he do . He stood at rallies and he stood before the American People and he didnt tell you what he knew. You knew ons if january 28 what he knew . Might have done or been able to do to protect your family, to protect your children, knowing that it is inevitable that maybe there might have to be some time that people have to stay home from work. Perhaps you could have planned for that. He held onto that information, he covered it up we,then he told the people, the people, you are on one side of his ledger if you dont wear a mask, you are on another side of his ledger. Whats that about . Between ae difference donald trump and a joe biden. People,n stands for the with the people. He knows this election will be conducted by the people. [applause] thats what is ahead of us. What is ahead of us is to fight. Its to fight knowing that we dont want a president of the United States who spends his time sowing hate and division between us. Thats not who we are. We know in the beauty of the diversity of who we are, the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us. We are here right now standing in the rain because we know we knowetter than this and we that the strength of our democracy is in the strength of the people and that the people are prepared to fight for their country. They have a love of our country and we will fight for our country. Election isthis about. Here in florida, with the exception of some of the great members of congress and some of the mayors and you have some of the folks elected in florida. Im not going to mention any names. Here is the thing, all over this trying, people are including this president , to suggest to you that you cannot trust our election system. They are trying to confuse folks about voting. They are trying to suggest that there is somehow something that lacks integrity about our system. They are trying to confuse folks about your power to vote. They are trying to confuse folks about how to vote. We are smarter than that. We know the power we have when we vote and heres the point i want to make, sometimes, not only do we have to sit back and know we have to vote to honor all of the ancestors who fought for our rights to vote, people like the late, great john lewis. Honorw we need to vote to , we just honored the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, all those suffragettes who fought for the right for women to vote. We also fight for all of those who understood black women didnt get to vote until 1965. We honor the ancestors. Is what i want to ask you then i will close my comments. I will leave you with this, we have to ask, and please get back in your cars. I will talk louder. Thing, when all of these people all over the country, these powerful people are trying to put in roadblocks, they have been picking up drop boxes so people cannot they find it hard to find where the dropbox is on early voting and they been trying to suppress the vote and purging the voter rolls and you have to sit back and ask why are these powerful people trying to make it so difficult for us to vote and here is the answer. Because they know our power. They know when we vote, we win. They know when we vote that we vote for fairness, they know we know whats on the ballot in 2020. Intice is on the ballot 2020, economics is on the ballot in 2020, criminal Justice Reform is on the ballot in 2020, reproductive justice is on the ballot in 2020, climate justices on the ballot in 2020. We know what we have and we know our power and thats why we will vote every day on election day and get this thing done, thank you. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] i had a choice to make, do i let my people run it really well or badly . If i run it badly, they will probably blame him they will blame me but more importantly, i want to help people. He has already cost 10 Million People their health care that they had from their employers because of his recession. With less than two weeks before the 2020 election, watch the second president ial debate the new between President Donald Trump and former Vice President joe biden thursday from Belmont University in nashville, tennessee. Live coverage begins at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspan and listen live on the cspan radio app and go to www. Cspan. Org debates for live or ondemand streaming of debate coverage. Up live on tuesday, the house ways and means oversight subcommittee considers ways to increase Health Care Coverage during the coronavirus pandem