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.@DrBiden takes stage, talking about her work as a teacher. Says it's more than a job, "it's a calling."
. @DrBiden says this country is about "working hard and building a better life for our kids. Coming together to create something that is more powerful than anything we could achieve alone."
That, Biden said, guided her husband as a senator, and through "eight hopeful years as your vice president."
. @JoeBiden now being introduced by a Pittsburgh public school teacher. “I encourage my children to be better than me, soar higher than me.” Says US needs a president who will live up to words of Pledge of Allegiance, “with liberty and justice for all.”
.@JoeBiden opens by talking about the synagogue attacks in Pittsburgh and Poway. "We're reminded we are in a battle for America's soul."
.@JoeBiden on starting his campaign in Pennsylvania. "If I’m going to be able to beat Donald Trump in 2020, it’s going to happen here.”
Biden: "The country wasn’t built by Wall Street bankers, CEOs, hedge fund managers. It was built by you."
Biden: "The middle class is hurting. ... The stock market is roaring. But can you feel it?" Crowd chants: "No!"
Biden says taxpayers bailed out GM. They paid back with interest. "But what happened? The CEOs and the executives did quite well. And the second they hit hard time, what'd they do? They closed plants. They announced they would layoff or transfer 14,000 workers."
Biden says he'll "fight like the devil" for unions. Union busting efforts are "morally wrong," he says.
Biden: "When I think about work, I think about dignity. I think about my dad." Quotes his father for the 1 millionth time. "A job is about more than just about a paycheck. It's about dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in the community."
Biden: "Our political system is broken. We're tearing America apart instead of lifting it up. And the major moral obligation of our time is to restore, rebuild, and respect the backbone of America, the middle class."
Biden talking about non-compete clauses that many low wage workers have to sign, says it’s an effort to suppress wages. “It’s wrong, it’s immoral and it should be made illegal.”
Biden says it’s “long last time” for a $15 minimum wage, and wants to reverse the Trump tax overhaul
Biden in health care: the ACA “was a huge step forward.” Says we need to Trump admin efforts to gut the law, then “move on and finish the job.” Mentions a public option
“We can do all of this without punishing anybody,” Biden says. By eliminating stepped up basis can send millions to community college for free
Biden: “Donald Trump is the only president who has ever decided not to represent the whole country.”
“The only thing that can tear America apart is America itself.” Joe Biden first tested that line out last October in Iowa
