Hampshire, this was his first swing on the campaign. Thank you. Im looking out there, i see some very friendly faces. Good morning nashua. Some energy, come on, i want to get going here. [applause] not that hard, its sunday morning, you slept yesterday, right . It is great to be back in the granite state, a second home for me. Ive got two second homes, iowa and New Hampshire. [laughter] i love this state. Growing up i have great memories of visiting here with friends. Squam lake, getting up the highway there toward some of your blue ice that you get to ski on sometimes and high school in concord where i would really look forward to taking that first cut of the hockey season on the black ice and now the ice doesnt even freeze, so its hard to do today, but i love the primary tradition of the state. Not just because you voted for me. It goes a lot farther back than that, folks, to be honest with you. When i was 24 years old stationed on the other side of the earth, when Radio Broadcasts and 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. Just 40 days after one of my very closest friends in college was killed in combat, New Hampshire was no longer just a place i went to high school. In the winter of 1968 New Hampshire was Something Else entirely. Some of you here remember that very, very closely. Legions of young people my age, the army of kids for peace, carrying pamphlets while i was carrying a gonna thousand miles away. Just kids knocking on doors, the Peanut Butter and jelly brigade, we called them and they proved themselves powerful enough to send a message all over the world that Lyndon Johnson couldnt be president anymore because of vietnam. It was an earthquake. It was palpable, and yes, deserves to be applauded because you did it for gods sake. [applaus [applause]. It was a grass roots prairie fire and frankly a great lesson to me in the power of people. Thats what we need now. 36 years later and my own president ial campaign, New Hampshire taught me another lesson or two. Sometimes the best lessons, frankly, were those learned the hard way, at town Hall Meetings where the air crackles with skepticism occasionally. In 2003, it is no secret as we came into december. My campaign was struggling a bit and i remember, you all remember up the highway, i think towards francona, the old man of the mountain. Well, a reporter wrote that i looked like the old man in the mountain. [laughter] and thats the half of it, folks, cause no sooner did he write that i looked like the old man of the mountain than the old man of the mountain crumbled and fell down so i did not think that was a particularly good metaphor. But guess what . You all saw through that, we saw through that, we fought room for room, gymnasium for gymnasium, fire hall for fire hall and you listened. Thats why im here today. You didnt give up on me and you really listened in New Hampshire. This state gives people a lot of chance to prove themselves. Youre also tough judges, you ought to be, you bring those notebooks. You meet people a bunch of finals, you write down the comparison and candidates, you care, you really care because you understand the responsibilities goes beyond just the primary vote in New Hampshire, witness what i said about Lyndon Johnson. So you carry that responsibility on your shoulders and i learned that december and january here in New Hampshire doesnt just bring you the frost, the black ice occasionally, it kicks off decision time. The moment when you get to set this nation on the course for president , the stretch run for the New Hampshire primary. And folks, thats 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 who [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 . And thats 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 and putting somebody in there who is going to get the job done. [applaus [applause] this is our chance to put common sense and decency and, yes, sanity back into 1600 pennsylvania avenue. [applaus [applause] and im not here just for any old reason. I am here because i know to my core. I know in my gut, i know in my heart, in my mind. Ive seen it, ive worked with this man, i know that joe biden is the person that can beat donald trump and bring this country back together and get the job done. [applaus [applause] we spent 24 years together in the United States senate and the only team that spent more effort cooperating with each other than us was donald trump and Vladimir Putin. So let me make this clear. I am not here because of the length of time i got to serve with joe. Ive known him. We go back to actually, we go back to 1971 and the antiwar demonstration, earth day and all of those efforts when we did change the world. And its not because ive known him so long that im here its because ive known him so well. I know this man. And i also know, 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 disenfranchised. Too many people celebrated from the upper end of the income level and any country that sees 51 of all 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. [applaus [applause] and one of the things i learned as secretary of state is, you know, if the United States is absent, other countries dont just automatically step up to make the difference. I think that Madeleine Albright called us the indispensible nation and i want you to think about when joe biden and President Trump were the leadership of our nation. On issue after issue, the South China Sea where we stood up for freedom of navigation, country after country where we stood up for human rights and the rights of people to be franchised and have a vote, revolution after revolution in the mideast and war, afghanistan where we put together a huge coalition to protect the interests of our nation. Isis, where we put together the coalition of 68 plus nations to defeat isis and restore a sense of rule of law and order in our world. My friends, we have our work cut out for us. Thats why ive started this new effort, environmental effort. The Climate Crisis is by far literally the biggest challenge weve faced because its existential. Science tells us that and its time that we had a president of the United States who not only understands the science hes reading, but who believes in the science that hes reading and thats what we need to do. [applaus [applause] the number two problem, the solution to Climate Change is going to require us to bring the world together, all of us. The Climate Crisis is extraordina extraordinarily big, but not really that complicated, folks. The solution is already here, its called energy policy. You start to make the right choices, we can win this war, we can win this battle. So who can bring the public the question now is, who has the experience . Who has the relationships, who has the gravitas and the credibility, the lift to on day one be able to bring to the table all the automakers and get them to accelerate the rate at which we move to electric. Someones got to be able to bring the Public Utilities and the governors, the Construction Companies of our nation to build the greatest Infrastructure Program weve ever had to begin to transition to a grid for our country that could actually be a smart grid and begins to allow us to use the Energy Produced at one side of the country and the other side of the country. This isnt rocket science. Do you know whats missing today . Whats missing today is leadership. Whats missing today is the will to do this and ive watched this guy create will where there wasnt any and provide leadership where there wasnt any. And thats why we need to think about the reality of what this election really means. We need a president of the United States who understands that there are millions are 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 thats scary is the unwillingness of the 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. So, you 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. Its going up to 9 billion users over the course of the next 30 years. Its already a multitrillion dollar market. Already an america the Fastest Growing job is solar power transmission, second fastest job, wind turbine transmission. Far more than involved in the coal industry and we all know what the consequences of coal are today. We need a president who understands the next great Infrastructure Initiative of our nation is to meet the challenge of this crisis and to make it america, to make iowa a place where you actually become the saudi arabia of wind power. New hampshire, producing the technologies, maybe even the negative Emissions Technology where we take Carbon Dioxide out of the air and put it to a use. Why dont we have a multibillion dollar investment effort in 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, folks. Youve got to help us get there. I know how New Hampshire works. [applaus [applause] its also clear that never has it 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 lost ground of 2008 and the fiscal crisis which, by the way, president obama and vicepresident biden brought us back from the brink of that crisis and the fact is [applause] one of the reasons im here today is that i understand that joe biden from scranton, pennsylvania grew up understanding the challenges, 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 who comes from the middle class, who will fight the middle class, not a phony who comes down a goldenplated escalator and promises to get rid of a swamp which he feeds with morale gators than weve ever seen before. Are you kidding me . [applaus [applause] so call it whatever you want, experience, wisdom, muscle memory, joe bidens a little bit like the new england patriots, i think. Fun to watch, fun to watch the promise and potential of young quarterback, but come february i like having an experienced quarterback like tom brady calling those plays. [applause] so when chairman biden became vicepresident biden he didnt just hand me a gavel, folks, he handed me a legacy of getting things done with inseg grit and bipartisan. Of shared experiences that we had travelling literally hundreds of thousands of miles around the world as he was chairman of the Foreign Relations committee and he served on it Paul Sarbanes and chris dodd. I never thought id be chairman of any committee, but i became chairman of that committee when he became vicepresident and then i remember in 2008 when russian tanks rolled into a neighboring country called georgia, it was chairman joe biden who immediately picked up the phone. He didnt pick up the phone to ask for a personal favor to do anything with an election in the United States, he picked up the phone to find out what america could do to help the president of that country and that country survive. [applause] uabout he didnt stop with a phone call. He got on a plane right away and flew overnight and sat on a hill top in georgia with that president of our democratic ally and he made it clear the United States stands with the forces of freedom, not the darkness of dictatorship. [applaus [applause] so just think about it. When russian stooges, fake uniform, rolled into eight years later rolled into ukraine, candidate trump, he also had a test and his first instinct was to say, thats not my problem. Thats 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 Vladimir Putin . And im sure that kim jongun actually unfriended him interethis past week. We need a president like joe biden who knows in his go ut the difference between our adversaries and our allies who leads in the world stage, not a president who is openly mocked and laughed at by our closest allies in the world, so, so personally disturbed like a child in a playground, that he picks up his marbles and goes home and shrinks away in the dark of night and starts tweeting in solitude. We need a president who leads where these 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 twarld 2 which deserves the same Leadership Today as we gave it then. Thats what we need in the white house t [applause] we need a president who when he stands next to Vladimir Putin a few feet away, he doesnt look at him and Say Something like, i dont see any reason why russia would have attacked our election. And throw the entire Intelligence Community and network of the United States of america under the bus in one fell swoop. You dont see any reason why russia would attack our democracy . For that statement alone why 0 see any reason why anyone would give this president four more yea years. Now folks [applaus [applause] so lets kind of get back to basics here. I would love to be and i know the vicepresident would, id love to sit here and take your questions all day long. Thats how i learned the most when i was running, i love it. I cant 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. Lifetime of service. I dont come to this lightly, nor does he, but i know the value of experience. Since when did it not matter . Youre going to have heart surgery, youre going to ask for the most experienced capable person. This is big stuff right now because so much is at stake. And ive seen this man sit in the situation room at the white house when tough choices were in front of us, ebola in africa. We were told a Million People were going to die in four months. We didnt do anything. We didnt know what we didnt know, but the president and vicepresident had the courage to send 3,000 plus troops to west africa to help build the capacity to deliver Life Saving Health care. We delivered that care and guess what . A tiny fraction of those people died over the course. [applause] these are lonely and tough decisions, folks, and im asking you over these next weeks. Think about the value of that experience and choices you make in life that are based on tomorrow experience. When i became secretary of state, joe was an advocate, an ally for the hardest issues, for diplomacy to end the Iranian Nuclear threat. Joe remembers this, we had the king of arabia was telling me im sure he told the vicepresident , youve got to bomb iran, the president of egy egypt, mubarak, you must bomb iran. And one said i want to bomb them i want you to back me up and president obama had the fortitude and intelligence said, whoa, we have to do diplomacy before we send Young Americans to war. Thats part of the test and i know that donald trump has let that genie back out of the bottle now. You have everything happening in the middle east is forseeable and it was foreseen. This is dangerous stuff, folks. So i think measure isis, when isis happened, they were sweeping across syria, about to take baghdad, mount sinjar, the yeazidis were about to be wiped out, and president obama sent bombers, and we got the arab countries together and the first time in the history, the sunnis bombed sunnis. This guy walked away, promise, rattles a sabre, has sweetheart meetings with the man he says he loves, with the worst man on the planet. I want a man with decency and strength and understands who is a friend and who isnt. And thats joe biden because he has the experience to do it. [applaus