.@JoeBiden takes the stage and starts by thanking a victim of gun violence for her courage to work on this issue, citing how difficult it was for him to work on the cancer moonshot after the death of his son, Beau.
“We have to change the culture,” Biden says promising that he will take on the issue of guns as president, calling it one of the fights of his career along with the Violence Against Women Act
Biden says he would “begin to make the case to the American people that there's no violation of your rights if in fact, you have to pass a background check, and you're the one and only one that can pull the trigger,” saying he would move to make smart gun technology law.
Biden gets fired up answering how he would take on the NRA:
“These guys will tell you the tree of liberty is water the blood of patriots—I mean for God’s sake!” Biden says to applause. #GunSenseForum
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.@JoeBiden holds a virtual town hall focused on front line workers.
"It's time we as a nation, thought about how much we depend on our grocery store clerks, our bus drivers, our transit workers. These are the folks who keep the food supply going and secure."
Biden continues his criticism of @realDonaldTrump for his handling of PPE supply distribution in his virtual town hall.
"President says he takes no responsibility. He's president of the United States of America. Coordinating this effort is the President's responsibility."
Biden adds that it's "bizarre" for Trump to say that he won't wear a mask when in public.
"I have one. I wear it every time I step outside this house with a secret service," Biden says of his own mask.
.@JoeBiden jumps into the conversation of the debate on the question of electability, citing this NBC Poll that showed him beat Trump by the widest margin in a general election matchup nbcnews.com/politics/meet-…
@JoeBiden We haven't heard from Biden since he gave the answer above, and he just waived at the moderators to get in on the health care debate--something his advisors said he planned to focus on tonight in the debate #DemDebates
"I'm the only one on the stage that actually got anything done on health care. Okay? I'm the guy the president turned to and said, go get the votes for Obamacare and I notice what everybody's talking about is the plan that I first introduced."
Ahead of his speech, the Biden campaign is playing their 60-second, one-day only ad called "Character" for the crowd.
As he walks out, the usual Bruce Springsteen song "We take care of our own" is replaced with music similar to the one used in the ad
Biden talks about @GretaThunberg and Trump's criticism of her as an angry teenager and saying she has problems while talking about Climate Change.
"I am resisting the urge to list his problems," Biden said of Trump.
@GretaThunberg Biden brings up @Captsully's op-ed after Lara Trump appeared to mock Biden's stutter as a child, paraphrasing his belief that Trump has brought out a “a culture of cruelty in America”
.@JoeBiden was briefly briefed by his national security team on initial reports on the breaking news in Iraq right before he spoke at a fundraiser in Pennsylvania tonight, a Biden aide tells me.
“What’s happening in Iraq and Iran today was predictable,” @JoeBiden said at his fundraiser tonight. “Not exactly what’s happening but the chaos that’s ensuing,” he said, blaming Trump for withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal & recent order of a missile strike killing Soleimani
“Some of the things he’s done & said in the meantime have been close to ludicrous,” Biden said. “Including threatening to bomb holy sites…& I just pray to God as he goes through what’s happening, as we speak, that he’s listening to his military commanders for the first time...
“Lindsey, I, just I’m just embarrassed by what you’re doing for you. I mean my Lord” @JoeBiden tells @donlemon when asked what he would say to @LindseyGrahamSC for launching a probe of Burisma and the Bidens.
@JoeBiden@donlemon@LindseyGrahamSC "I am disappointed & quite frankly I'm angered by the fact. He knows me. He knows my son. He knows there's nothing to this," @JoeBiden says of Graham.
"Lindsey is about to go down in a way that I think he's going to regret his whole life," Biden said of Graham starting the probe
"Trump is so bad as a president & so corrupt as a president that everybody in America who's ever been involved in politics especially if they have a billion dollars thinks they can beat Trump," he said.