Well, i can feel it. Im so excited to be here and im excited, because we have president barack obama ready to come out to greet us. [honking] we also have the next president of the United States, joe biden, ready to come out and greet us. And they are both here because and they michigan certainly love the city of flint. And we know they love this day because they have been here time and time again. But they dont just show up to visit and wave their hands and do some politicking. When they show up, get the business done. They have done that before, and they will do it again. They have shown stable leadership, thoughtful leadership, focused leadership. Man, do we need that again or what . I just want to talk again about how we saw them together and how it made a difference. It is personal to me. When we were facing the financial crisis, wall street agreed went wild and almost brought down the entire economy, it was a mess that barack obama and joe biden walked into. A mess created by the Republican Administration that was there before. They came to our city. He came to our state. And we know that the Auto Industry was hanging in the balance, with all of those jobs, all of that history. The state that put the entire country on wheels and built the middle class. All of that was in danger. I remember, i was a new member of congress in 2008, and i represented a district that included chrysler. Many of you probably know the chrysler headquarters in ann arbor. I will never forget the meeting i had with the ceo. And they were in big trouble on the question was whether or not there would be any assistance for the Auto Companies and General Motors and chrysler. I remember that discussion with that ceo when he said, congressman, let me be clear. The economy is in shambles, money is not available, and im literally 4, 5, maybe six weeks away from liquidating chrysler. Not reorganizing, liquidating. I looked around that room and the faces of the people i dont think they had heard from the ceo that this company was going to disappear. I had visions of that giant parking lot with grass growing in it, no cars. Families in difficult shape. Witht back and worked colleagues and talked to president obama and joe biden and said, weve got to do it and weve got to include chrysler. I will say to this day, and i will say it over and over again, when people were betting against michigan workers, when donald trump set, hey, let detroit go bankrupt he said that when Vice President pence was a member of congress and voted against the auto rescue, i will say, thank god barack obama and joe biden still with us. They stood with american workers. They stood with workers in michigan. They stood with workers in flint and detroit. They were there for us when we needed them, and we are going to be there for them now, because we need them back. [car horns honking] we are in the middle of a pandemic that has lasted a whole lot longer than any of us would like. We are still looking for leadership. We have a president that has not acknowledged it and thought it would disappear and pitted states against each other. He did not show the kind of leadership we have seen in the past, but thank god joe biden has a plan, thank god he will be our next president , and thank god we will be able to work with him to get to this challenge. Through this challenge. I will say that joe biden he cant do it alone. He needs help. He needs friends. And he needs friends in the United States senate. He needs a democratic majority in the United States senate. [car horns honking] mcconnell stays as republican leader, he will stand in the way of the progress that we need in this country. We saw him do it when barack obama was president. We cannot allow him to stay, which is why we must win. It is why we must win here in michigan. I have good news for you we have a real shot. A shot to take the majority. One thing we must do is, we must win here. We must hold this seat, and we will hold this seat as a democratic seat for michigan in the United States senate. [car horns honking] know thatpublicans they are pouring money into my race. You see the tv commercials. There are a lot of tv commercials. They are pouring money in with negative, nasty, false ads. The fall the fact checker say they are false or smears. Mitch mcconnell and his billionaire buddies put in 20 million and the last few weeks, and this weekend they are going to spend 8 million. These are billionaires that think they can buy the selection. We all know, we are all proud michiganders, and we know that William Ayres cannot buy an election that billionaires cannot buy an election in michigan. We know billionaires have a lot of money. One of the many reasons this country is so great a billionaire still gets one vote. We get one vote and we have more votes here today in flint than those billionaires. [car horns honking] but we have to work. It is not over. Let me wrap up by ringing a bad memory and painting a picture of where we are going to be. We remember what happened in 2016. We remember waking up that morning and seeing the results. I know everyone here today has this thought was there something more i could have done . Two votes a only precinct. Could i have made a few more calls . Could i have talked to my neighbor . Could i have had a couple friends, and make sure they get to the ballot . Ive got good news for you. You leave here today, you still have time to do that work. When you wake up tomorrow, you can put in those two extra hours of work. You can talk to those neighbors. You can take to the polls a friend of yours. We do that over the next few days, this will be the vision i want to leave you with, this vision before we hear from some amazing people. When we are waiting for the results of this election, you are going to be looking at the tv. The whole country is going to be watching, because michigan is the center of that. , whenhe results come in that comes across your tv screen, i know what each and every one of you will do. Seat,ll jump out of your you will cheer, because you will say, thank god michigan is a blue state. We have a democratic president of the United States. Thank god we reelected Gary Peterson to the senate and have told mitch mcconnell, you are in the minority. We have a democratic majority in the senate and house, and collectively we will say no to the politics of division and hate we have seen these last four years and say, hello, to the democratic progress. Lets go on to victory. Open the streets and watch our police im praying forever freedom, freedom freedom, freedom, where are you i need freedom too rot ub inreedom hell see truth you as a reminder, todays event witheen set up to abide social distancing guidelines set up by the state of michigan. Thank you. Learningle keep on ringiers keep on war the world keeps on turning longe it wont be too powers keep on lyin while your people keep on dyin world keep on turnin cause it wont be too long im so darn glad he let me try it again cause my last time on earth i lived a whole world of sin im so glad that i know more than i knew then gonna keep on tryin til i reach my highest ground teachers keep on teaching keep on preaching world keep on turnin cause it wont be too long oh, lord keep on lovin believinkeep on ladies and gentlemen, please Welcome Community leader deandre young. Peopleeryday good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. Thanks for having me and for joining todays car rally. Here inrn and raised the city of flint, michigan and have been active in the community my entire life, organizing and engaging people to fight for environment of justice and the fight for clean, affordable water and sustainable infrastructure. Strong, with my family working at General Motors, proud members of the uaw. My mother was a Union Representative and liaison for Flint Community schools. My family and my community motivate me to stay committed to the fight for equity, which starts at the Grassroots Level. I always tell people that fighting for change at the Grassroots Level is more than just your typical 9 005 00 job. It is your whole life. Right now, we desperately need a president who recognizes that. This pandemic has shined a light on the inequities that define our. Existence this president has used has words and the Nations Highest Office to stoke hate and division. Enough is enough. The simply will not work for us. This simply will not work for us. We are just three days away from a day we will never forget. This is no doubt the most important election of our lives. And when november 4 rolls around, we need to know that we left it all on the table, that we could tothing elect the leaders we know we deserve. Nowre at a crossroads right and meeting this moment means exercising your right to vote. It means telling your friends and family to vote. For those of you who have yet to vote, you can go to iwill vote. Com to make your plan today. If you care about health care and the water you drink, you need to vote for joe biden. The stakes are too high to sit this one out. That changeows starts at the Grassroots Level. He knows that the best laws and policies demand a patient, attentive ear to the ground. He will listen. He cares about us. He helped save the Auto Industry, which made a huge difference for thousands in flint and he will be more than a 9 005 00 president because he knows that is what it takes to right the ship. Here in flint, we are no strangers to a Public Health crisis. As our country in the world feels the weight of the pandemic, we are all looking for hope and leadership to move us forward. I remember a time where we saw that same unique brand of hope when we were going in the wrong direction. Power, madeown history, and elected the first black president of the United States. I am so honored to introduce the man and president who embodies forged a bright path forward, but one housekeeping item before i welcome him to the stage. We ask that you please refrain from honking your horns during president obama and Vice President bidens remarks. Flint, please join me in welcoming to the stage the 44th president of the United States of america, barack obama. Mr. Obama hello, flint. It is good to be back in michigan. It is good to be back in the midwest, getting closer to chicago from here. How is everybody doing . Can everybody give a round of applause to andre young . Fantastic young man. Thank you for the introduction. Happy halloween, everybody. I love your masks. [laughter] please give a big round of applause as well to governor gretchen whitmer. Lieutenant governor garland gilchrist. My buddy from the senate, debbie stabenow. Therewho is always in fighting for you who we need to send back to the senate, jared peters. Born andressman, raised great here in flint, michigan, dan killed the dan kildee. Mayor shelton neely. Sheldon neely. And the next president of the United States, joe biden. Three days, flint. Three days until the most important election of our lifetimes. I love you too. Now youi know right have got the michiganmichigan state game, and that is a big deal. The paul bunyan trophy is on the line, but this tuesday, everything is on the line. Our jobs are on the line, our health care is on the line, whether or not we get this pandemic under control is on the line, but heres the good news. Tuesday, you can choose change. On tuesday, you can elect joe biden and kamala harris. You can choose a better america. And what is even better news is you do not have to wait until tuesday to cast your ballot, michigan. You can vote in person right now. Just go towillvote. Com, find your polling place, get out there and vote. If somebody like you already voted, go help your friends and family make a plan to vote. We have got to get everybody out there. I love you too. Ok, thats it. Put that mask back on. Listen, michigan, joe biden is my brother. I love that i love joe biden and he will be a great president. Ago,i will admit, 12 years when i asked him to be the nominee for Vice President with me when i was running, i did not know joe that well. We had served together in the senate, but he and i came from different places, part of different generations, but i quickly came to admire joe as a man who learned early on to treat everybody he meets with dignity and with respect, living by the words his mom taught him joe,ne is better than you, but you are no better than anybody else. And that sense of decency and work,y, a belief in hard family, faith, the belief that everybody counts, that is who joe is. And that is who he will be as president. I can tell you that the presidency does not change who you are. It shows who you are. It reveals who you are. And for eight years, joe was the last one in the room whenever i faced a big decision, and he made me a better president. He has the character and the experience to make us a better kamala will he and be in the fight not for themselves but for everyone of us. And we sure cant say that about the president we have right now. You know, i said this before. I never thought donald trump would embrace my vision. Not agree with my policies, but i did hope he would show some interest in the job. He might take the job seriously. He never has. He has not shown any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself and his or treating the presidency is anything more than a reality show to give him the attention that he craves. But unfortunately, the rest of us have to live with the consequences. Almost 230,000 americans are dead. 100,000 Small Businesses have closed. 300,000 jobs are gone in michigan alone. Had its single worst week of new covid cases. And what is his Closing Argument . Here we are, the worst week, this week. We have been going through this now for months. The federal government has had an opportunity to respond for months and his Closing Argument the press andhat people are too focused on covid. Covid, covid, covid he is complaining. He is jealous of covids media coverage. And now he is accusing doctors of profiting off this pandemic. Think of that. He said this just yesterday. He said doctors are over blowing it because they are going to make money off of it. Doctors. Does not fathom, he understand that somebody would risk their life to save others without trying to make a profit. Arechief of staff says we not going to control the pandemic. That is a quote. We are not going to control the pandemic. We noticed, mr. Chief of staff. We understand you will not, but do you know who will . Joe biden well when we elect him president of the United States. Will when we elect him president of the United States. Do you remember when republicans were saying let detroit go bankrupt . Remember that . They might as well be saying let america get covid, because that is how they are acting. If trump were focused on covid from the beginning, cases would not be reaching new record highs across the country. Holdsf the places he rallies have seen new spikes after he leaves town. There was just a study by Stanford University that just came out showing thousands of people are likely to have gotten sick because of these rallies he is holding. What is his obsession, by the way, with crowd size . Have you noticed this . Worried this is the one measure he has of success. He is still worrying about his inauguration crowd being smaller than mine. It really bugs him. That. Ll is talking about does he have Nothing Better to worry about . To his Birthday Party when he was a kid . Was he traumatized . Whats with crowds . I have had crowds before, you know. But whend quite a few, a country is going through a pandemic, that is not what you are supposed to be worrying about. And that is the difference between joe biden and trump right there. Trump cares about feeding his ego. Joe cares about keeping you and your family safe. In he is less interested feeding his ego than making sure he is not going around making more people sick. That is what you should expect from a president. Expect Something Different from a reality tv star, but from a president , you want them to put you above their own ego. Michigan. Truth, this pandemic would have been challenging for any president , but this idea that somehow this white house has done anything but completely screw this up is nonsense. Canada identified its first case the same week that the u. S. Did, just a few miles up. I may not be pointing north, but canada is pretty close. Rate in the United States is 2. 5 times higher than canada. Think about that. Ofwe had the same percentage folks dying in canada as we do americansly 90,000 would have died instead of 230,000 americans. If we had handled this pandemic our canada did, 140,000 of fellow americans might still be alive today. Think about that. Think about that. And yet, despite that, last week, when trump was asked if he would do anything different, he said not much. Really . Not much . Cant think of anything. I understand the president was anxious to downplay it because he wanted to get credit for the and zeroe inherited blame for the pandemic kia gourd, but it does not work that way. Ignored, but it does not work that way. The job does not work that way. Making stuff up does not make peoples lives better. You have got to have a plan. You have got to put in the work. Experiencewith the to get things done, joe biden has concrete plans and policies that will turn our vision of a fairer, stronger country a reality. Joe will not screw up testing. He will not call scientist idiots. He will not host super spreader events. What he will do is get this pandemic under control with a plan to make testing free and widely available, getting a vaccine to every american cost free, and making sure our frontline heroes never have to ask other countries for the equipment that they nee