Biden says he's not going to address the issue of the 25th amendment today
Says yesterday was "one of the darkest days in our history"
"An assault on democracy...on the rule of law, on the most sacred of American undertakings, ratifying the will of the people."
Says yesterday was "one of the darkest days in our history"
"An assault on democracy...on the rule of law, on the most sacred of American undertakings, ratifying the will of the people."
Biden: "What we witnessed yesterday was not dissent, was not disorder, was not protest, it was chaos. They weren't protestors. Don't dare call them protestors. They were a riotous mob. They were domestic terrorists. It's that simple."
Biden seems genuinely quite furious- you can tell, it isn't confected.
Biden is a man who has spent half a century on Capitol Hill, in one form or another. This is deeply personal, as well as political. Blistering.
Biden's run was always about restoring the dignity of American political institutions. It underpinned everything he said and did and the way he ran. Yesterday was effectively the embodiment of why he chose to run- you can sense it in the energy of this speech.
What you're seeing is a politician who is an institutionalist to his core, excoriating a man who is anything but. Of the manifold differences between the two candidates, it was always the most profound.
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