Thread by @mikememoli

Same location, different staging:

First photo: @JoeBiden rally today

Second: @BarackObama for @HillaryClinton in September 2016

After the national anthem we heard a choir sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Now “Amazing Grace”

Self-described “Philly girl” @DrBiden now speaking ahead of her husband. She is highlighting her local roots and yes her sports fandom, complete with a “Fly Eagles Fly”

“The Biden family is ready,” Jill Biden says. They will run this campaign “as a family.”

Someone tries interrupting @JoeBiden early in his remarks but he uses as a moment to highlight his plan to stay positive. “I won’t speak ill of another Democrat”

Biden calls President Trump the “divider in Chief,” says his style of politics weakens and distracts the country and hurts our standing in the world

With someone blowing a whistle in the distance Biden ad libs “That must be Bernie.”

“This nation needs to come together. It has to come together”

Biden says he’s offering the country a different path not to the past but a future that realizes America’s potential

Biden: I know we have to take on Republicans to do what’s right. That’s what we did to pass the Affordable Care Act

Biden: I know how to go toe to toe with the GOP but it can’t be that way on every issue

Biden: Trump inherited the economy from the Obama-Biden administration just like he inherited everything else in live. But he’s in process of squandering it as well

Biden: The country is sick of division. It’s sick of the childish behavior. All they want is for president, senators to do their jobs

Biden says Trump is using tactics of the path and “we have to be focused on the future”

Biden has ticked through some issues and given broad strokes on others: Calls for “clean energy revolution,” mentions women’s right to choose and civil liberties. Free college and public option on healthcare

Biden: the first step in my climate policy: beat Trump.

“As long as Donald Trump is in the White House none of these things are going to get done.”

Biden: The threat to our democracy from Trump is clear and it is present. Tyrants around the world are following Trump’s rhetoric to stifle dissent

Biden: The only thing that can tear America apart is America itself and we can’t let that happen