>> Joe Biden picking up not one 
but three endorsements from his 
former opponent. 
>> I will be casting my ballot 
for Joe Biden.  
>> We have found that in vice 
president, soon to be President 
Joe Biden.  
>> The democrats seemed to 
really unify last night in 
Dallas a do it behind Joe 
Biden. 
>> It is up to us to heal this 
country.  I am ending my 
campaign and endorsing Joe Biden
for president!  
>> The Vice President gains the 
support of two more former 
rivals, Senators Kamala Harris 
and Cory Booker.  
>> He is a public servant who 
has always worked for the best 
of who we are as a nation.  
>> We will elect Joe Biden as 
the next President of the United
States.  
>> I'm an team Joe.  I'm ridin' 
with Biden. 
>> I am so proud to be on Joe's 
team, because Joe is on your 
team. 
>> I hereby am endorsing Joe 
Biden to be the next President 
of the United States. 
>> Today, I'm proud to join Joe 
Biden. 
>> I don't think there's anyone 
better to try to heal the 
country right now than Joe 
Biden.  People trust him.  They 
believe in him. 
>> Vermont Senator Bernie 
Sanders has officially 
endorsed --
>> Two men who represent these 
two wings of the Democratic 
Party coming together. 
>> So, today, I am asking all 
Americans to come together in 
this campaign to support your 
candidacy, which I endorse.  
>> President Barack Obama now 
officially off the 2020 
sidelines. 
>> That's why I'm so proud to 
endorse Joe Biden for President 
of the United States.  Choosing 
Joe to be my vice president was 
one of the best decisions that I
ever made. 
>> Biden picked up another major
democratic endorsement, this one
from Elizabeth Warren. 
>> It's up to all of us to help 
make Joe Biden the next 
President of the United States. 
>> It's all coming together for 
Joe Biden. 
>> I am doing everything that I 
can and thank you for doing what
you can. 
>> So join me in supporting Joe,
and let's get this done. 
>> Let's get to work.  We are 
all in this together. 
>> Now is the time to fight for 
what we believe in, so join us. 
>> The Democratic Party has 
always risen to our country's 
greatest challenges.  
>> I pledge myself to a New Deal
for the American people.  
>> We have moved this country 
forward in a relentless push for
progress, progress for Americans
from all walks of life, not just
the few. 
>> The harsh facts of the matter
are that we stand at this 
frontier at a turning point in 
history. 
>> We don't want our freedom 
gradually, but we want to be 
free now.  
>> We have brought together 
voices from every part of 
America.  
>> We are a people in a quandary
about the president.  We are a 
people in search of our future. 
We are attempting to fulfill our
national purpose, to create and 
sustain a society in which all 
of us are equal.  
[ Applause ]
>> And we have made history 
along the way.  
>> PRESIDENT OBAMA:  There is 
not a liberal America and a 
conservative America.  There is 
the United States of America.  
We must pledge once more to 
march into the future.  
>> We are a different society 
than we were in 1961!  Brothers 
and sisters, do you want to go 
back?  
>> No!  
>> Or do you want to keep 
America moving forward?  
>> Yeah!  
>> Well, our motto is when they 
go low, we go high.  
>> We never bow!  We never bend!
We never break!  No, we endure, 
and we always, always, always 
move forward!  
[ Cheers and applause ] .
>> This election, we have 
engaged a historic number of 
Americans in the democratic 
process, and now we have to 
overcome the odds once again to 
build back better than before.  
>> We lead not only by the 
example of our power but by the 
power of our example.  We are 
America, second to none, and we 
own the finish line!  Don't 
forget it!  Thank you.  
>> We are democrats, and we are 
ready to lead again.  We are 
coming together on August 17th, 
all across America.  Be there.  
>> And now, live from Milwaukee,
Mayor Tom Barrett. 
>> MAYOR BARRETT:  Hi, 
everybody. I'm Tom Barrett, 
the proud mayor of Milwaukee.  I
would love to be welcoming you 
to my home city right now.  The 
good people of Milwaukee and I 
were so excited when we learned 
that our resilient city was 
chosen to host the 2020 
Democratic National Convention. 
It was the first time a major 
political party chose Wisconsin 
to hold its convention.  But 
these are not conventional 
times.  And as a result, as we 
all know, this is not a 
conventional convention.  
And as much as we would have 
loved to host you in person, I 
am proud that the Democratic 
Party and the City of Milwaukee 
have made the health of our 
residents our number one 
priority.  
Unlike the President, we have 
never called COVID-19 a hoax.  
Unlike the President, we have 
never made fun of face masks, 
and unlike the President, we 
have never belittled our public 
health experts.  We understand 
why we can't be together this 
week, and I hope you do too.  
And as our party comes together 
virtually to nominate Joe Biden 
to be our next President, we are
showing the country that we are 
nominating a leader who isn't 
afraid to make tough choices or 
to work with health experts, not
against them, to address this 
pandemic.  
Milwaukee is a very special 
place on America's fresh coast. 
I look forward to the day when 
you are all able to come 
experience our beautiful 
lakefront, our historic 
neighborhoods, and, above all, 
our diverse, hardworking, and 
friendly residents.  
But in the meantime, it is my 
honor to call the second session
of the 48th quadrennial national
convention of the Democratic 
Party to order.  
[Gavel pounding]
>> Delegates, we will now hear 
reports from our three 
convention standing committees. 
To start us off, I'm pleased to 
introduce Lorraine Miller and 
James Roosevelt, Jr., cochairs 
of the credentials committee, to
present their committee's 
report.  
>> Hello, delegates to the 2020 
Democratic National Convention. 
My name is Jim Roosevelt, and it
is an honor to have served as a 
co-chair of the Credentials 
Committee along with my good 
friend, Lorraine Miller.  
Pursuant to the convention 
rules, the Credentials Committee
met and took action to approve 
the credentials of the 
alternates that have been 
credentialed for the 2020 
Democratic National Convention. 
I am proud to say that all 
credentials issues were resolved
in accordance with the actions 
of the Credentials Committee.  
This year's nominating process 
reflects the efforts of so many 
to make our process more open 
and more transparent.  As a 
result, we know that our 
delegates reflect the best of 
our party, and we are all united
around our nominees, Joe Biden 
and Kamala Harris.  
>> May I add my thanks for the 
opportunity to serve as a 
co-chair of the Credentials 
Committee with my friend, Jim 
Roosevelt.  Our state and 
territorial parties have worked 
diligently in these 
unprecedented times to make sure
that their delegations reflect 
the great diversity of our 
party.  We are proud that our 
party places a priority on 
making sure that participants of
this convention highlight a core
value of our party, that is, 
ensuring that all Americans, 
regardless of sex, race, age, 
color, creed, national origin, 
religion, economic status, 
sexual orientation, gender 
identity, ethnic identity, or 
physical disability have a role 
in this important process.  
Mr. Chair, I am pleased to 
report that the credentials 
committee report was approved by
Committee members, and all 
delegates have been fully 
credentialed.  
>> Thank you, Lorraine and Jim. 
We will now hear from the 
co-chairs of the Rules 
Committee, Maria Cardona and 
Congressman Barney Frank to 
present that committee's report.
>> My name is Maria Cardona, and
I am so honored to serve as 
co-chair of the rules and bylaws
committee of the Democratic 
National Convention, along with 
my friend and colleague, 
Congressman Barney Frank.  The 
Rules Committee met the last 
week of July to adopt the 
convention rules of procedure, 
officers and agenda.  The 
Committee approved the rules 
that will govern the convention.
These rules are based on a 
longstanding process that has 
governed our conventions for 
many, many cycles.  Given the 
unprecedented nature of the 
COVID-19 health crisis, these 
rules that were approved focus 
on providing for a convention 
that will transform the 
convention experience for 
delegates and for participants 
and will allow for maximum 
participation by those 
delegates.  
The Rules Committee also 
ratified a dynamic group of 
democrats to serve as the 
officers of the convention.  The
convention officers truly 
represent the ideals and the 
principles of the Democratic 
Party.  These actions of the 
Rules Committee will ensure that
the 2020 Democratic National 
Convention can efficiently and 
effectively proceed with its 
important business.  
The Rules Committee also took 
action on a resolution that was 
recommended for approval by 
convention delegates.  The 
resolution calls on the 
Democratic National Committee to
continue the work from this 
cycle, to improve our nominating
process, and to build on those 
reforms for the 2024-cycle.  The
resolution calls on the DNC 
Rules Committee to conduct a 
comprehensive review of the 
presidential nominating reforms 
that were made and to evaluate 
where even further reforms might
be needed.  This review and 
accounting will be complete by 
March 31st, 2021.  
Chair, I am pleased to report 
that the Unity Resolution was 
approved by the delegates.  
Thank you to the delegates.  
Thank you to the members of the 
Rules and Bylaws Committee, and 
thank you for continuing to do 
everything you can to ensure we 
are successful in November.  
Gracias.  
>> Two things about the rules 
are very important to note.  
One, they continue and build on 
the trend towards making our 
nominating process as democratic
as possible, with a small d.  We
have asked that we go to 
primaries rather than caucuses. 
We have restricted and 
maintained those restrictions on
non-elected delegates.  
Secondly, it's important to note
that everything in these rules 
is the product of a very free 
agreement between the Sanders 
and Biden people, as it was last
time between Clinton and 
Sanders.  That is, we have a 
very democratic set of rules, 
agreed upon enthusiastically by 
both camps.  
>> Thank you, Maria and Barney. 
It's my pleasure to call on 
Platform Committee cochairs 
Julie Rodriguez and Dennis to 
present their report. 
>> Good evening.  I'm Julie 
Rodriguez, and alongside my 
friend, Denis McDonough, I was 
honored to cochair this year's 
democratic Platform Committee.  
This spring, the process for 
drafting our 2020 democratic 
platform began with the 
formation of the unit task 
forces.  Appointed by Vice 
President Biden and Senator 
Sanders, the task forces focused
their work on six major policy 
priorities:  Continuing the work
of the task forces, the platform
drafting committee engaged 
voters and encouraged them to 
share their stories so that 
their values were reflected.  
The Platform Drafting Committee,
chaired by Mayor Keisha Lance 
Bottoms engaged people in the 
party to ensure that the 
feedback was incorporated, 
whether received online or 
through ally groups.  
>> Thanks, Julie.  I am Denis 
McDonough, and I am proud to 
have been the cochair on the 
platform Committee.  Our 
committee proposed a platform 
that addresses the challenges 
faced by American families at 
this unprecedented time, it is 
informed by the values of our 
party and the priorities of our 
presidential nominee, Vice 
President Joe Biden.  I strongly
believe that this platform lays 
out an agenda informed by the 
values that will defeat Donald 
Trump and heal the soul of our 
nation, the United States of 
America. 
>> Thank you to Julie and Denis.
Thank you to all all of the 
members of the three standing 
committees to ensure that we 
have a platform that represents 
our party's values and 
interests, and a plan for 
continuing to look at how we 
conduct our affairs in the best 
spirit of openness, fairness, 
and inclusion.  
♪ ♪
[ Music playing ]
>> I pledge allegiance to the 
flag of the United States of 
America and to the public for 
which it stands, one nation, one
nation, one nation, one nation 
under god, indivisible, with 
liberty and justice for all.  
[ Music playing ]
♪ ♪
>> My fellow Americans, this is 
my country.  Many of us have 
fought hard for the right to say
that.  Many are now struggling 
today, so let me say this with 
conviction:  This is our 
country.  
>> We are a people in a quandary
about the present.  We are a 
people in search of our future. 
>> We must make the American 
people hear our tale of two 
cities.  We must convince them 
that we don't have to settle for
two cities, that we can have one
city, indivisible, shining for 
all of its people.  
>> If you give us a chance, we 
can perform.  After all, Ginger 
Rogers did everything that Fred 
Astaire did.  She just did it 
backwards and in high heels.  
>> PRESIDENT OBAMA:  There is 
not a liberal America and a 
conservative America.  There is 
the United States of America.  
There is not a black America and
a white America and a Latino 
America and an Asian America.  
There is the United States of 
America.  
[ Cheers and applause ] .
>> The American dream is not a 
sprint or even a marathon but a 
relay.  Our families don't 
always cross the finish line in 
the span of one generation, but 
each generation passes on to the
next the fruits of their labor. 
>> We are one people, all of us 
pledging allegiance to the stars
and stripes, all of us defending
the United States of America.  
>> Welcome. 
>> Welcome. 
>> Welcome. 
>> To the second night. 
>> Of the Democratic National 
Convention. 
>> This is a different kind of 
convention. 
>> Look at the camera and smile.
>> And this. 
>> This is a different kind of 
keynote. 
>> Is a different kind of 
keynote. 
>> This year, all of us cross 
the stage, and we have got a lot
to say.  
>> Let's get real, there's a lot
riding on this election. 
>> When we are facing the 
biggest health and economic 
crisis in generations, because 
our president didn't and still 
opportunity have a plan. 
>> When doctors and nurses and 
home health aides in 
Philadelphia have to risk their 
lives to protect others because 
there's not protective 
equipment. 
>> When factory workers in Ohio 
face dangerous conditions, 
because this administration 
hasn't given clear guidance on 
how to protect our people. 
>> When teachers in Gwinnett 
County, Georgia, and across the 
country are being asked to 
return to the classroom without 
a plan to keep them safe, and 
parents are exhausted, juggling 
full-time work and full-time 
child care. 
>> And visiting our parents and 
grandparents through the window 
of a nursing home, worrying all 
of the time that they will get. 
>> When unemployment in North 
Charleston, South Carolina, a 
city I represent, has risen 
nearly four fold, and evictions 
are putting families out on the 
street in the middle of a 
pandemic.  
>> Make no mistake, it didn't 
have to be this bad.  In the 
early days of the virus, Donald 
Trump didn't listen to the 
experts, and then he said 
something that a president 
should never say. 
>> He said, "I don't take 
responsibility at all."  
>> No responsibility. 
>> No leadership. 
>> No plan.  
>> He still doesn't have a plan.
>> Donald Trump just doesn't 
understand, we can't fix our 
economy until we get a hold of 
the virus.  
>> While working families are 
struggling, he's looking out for
the people who are already doing
just fine, the wealthy, the big 
corporations, the donors to his 
campaign. 
>> He's looking out for himself.
>> But there's one person who is
looking out for us.  
>> All of us.  
>> And that's Joe Biden.  
>> Joe called it.  We are in a 
battle for the soul of our 
nation. 
>> But Joe knows we can never 
let hard times turn us against 
each other. 
>> And we can never stop doing 
the hard work to make things 
right.  
>> That's why we ran for office.
>> Even when people counted us 
out.  
>> Even when there had never 
been a Latina in the Nevada 
state Senate. 
>> Or a democrat elected to the 
Department of Agriculture in 
nearly three decades. 
>> Or a gay man elected to the 
state legislature. 
>> We ran for office, because we
know the struggles American 
families are facing, because we 
have lived them. 
>> We have lived the insecurity 
and the indignity of an eviction
notice.  
>> I like many of you have lived
the frustration of paying off 
student loans. 
>> We have lived the grief of 
losing loved ones to gun 
violence.  And the criminal 
justice system that unfairly 
targets our communities.  
>> We have lived that feeling of
helplessness, when someone you 
love is very sick, and access to
health care is a matter of life 
and death.  
>> By the way, Joe Biden has 
lived a lot of this too.  
>> He was raised in a middle 
class family in Scranton, 
Pennsylvania, and Claymont, 
Delaware. 
>> He watched his dad look for 
work and learned that a job is 
about so much more than a 
paycheck.  It's about dignity 
and respect.  
>> He was sworn into office from
the hospital room of his two 
young sons, after a car crash 
killed his wife and infant 
daughter.  
>> He knows what it's like to 
thank God you have health care. 
>> He knows what it's like to 
work hard for everything you 
have got.  
>> He knows what it's like to 
send a child off to war. 
>> And he will never forget who 
he is fighting for.  
>> I look around my district in 
North Texas, and I see the 
people who built this country, 
the educators, like the single 
mom who raised me, the men and 
women on the front lines of our 
health care system.  You built 
this country.  
>> Small business owners, like 
the ones whose shops line the 
restaurants of Birmingham. 
>> Charleston, South Carolina.  
>> Line the streets of 
Philadelphia and bring our 
communities to life.  You built 
this country.  
>> The nurses in Memphis, who 
came out of retirement to treat 
patients during this pandemic, 
you built this country.  
>> And you know what?  You 
deserve more than the constant 
chaos that Donald Trump 
delivers.  
>> You deserve health care you 
can afford, a job that pays you 
fairly.  You deserve child care 
and paid sick leave while you 
work, and when you pay into 
Social Security and Medicare, 
you deserve to know it'll be 
there when you retire.  
>> And thanks to the voters 
across the country, in both red 
states and blue states. 
>> We won.  
>> A new generation of leaders 
is rising up. 
>> And with Joe Biden in the 
White House, there is no limit 
to what we can do.  
>> In Nevada, we are making drug
prices more transparent, so 
people with chronic illnesses 
won't go broke while drug 
companies get rich.  
>> Joe is working to protect and
expand the Affordable Care Act. 
He'll make sure millions of 
people keep their coverage and 
no one can be denied for a 
pre-existing condition.  He'll 
bring down the cost of health 
care and prescription drugs too,
giving tax credits to working 
families and allowing Medicare 
to negotiate drug prices.  
>> That's a big effing deal. 
>> That's a big effing deal. 
>> Because Joe knows we can't 
have a healthy economy if people
can't afford health care. 
>> But let's remember, Donald 
Trump is suing to take health 
care coverage away from more 
than 20 million Americans and 
eliminate protections for over 
100 million with pre-existing 
conditions.  
>> In the middle of a pandemic. 
>> In Texas, we are standing up 
for fierce women like my mom and
my Tias to raised me to never 
back down from a tough fight, so
we are fighting to make sure 
that mothers have access to 
health screenings, for safe 
pregnancies and childbirth, and 
we are bringing long overdo 
justice to survivors of sexual 
assault.  
>> Joe Biden has been fighting 
for women his entire career.  As
Senator, he authored the 
Violence Against Women Act, and 
as President, he'll restore 
funding for Planned Parenthood. 
He will codify Roe versus Wade, 
and make reducing infant 
mortality, especially for women 
of color, a top priority. 
>> In Florida, on the front 
lines of our climate crisis, we 
are working to produce more 
renewable energy and shrink our 
carbon footprint. 
>> Joe has a major plan to 
invest in clean energy jobs and 
infrastructure. 
>> In the House of 
Representatives, we are closing 
loopholes to ensure local 
infrastructure projects use 
American-made materials and 
local labor and support American
manufacturing.  
>> Unlike Donald Trump, Joe 
Biden will actually enforce buy 
American rules, investing in 
American-made clean energy, 
building materials, high-tech 
equipment and R&D, all creating 
more good jobs.  
>> In Michigan, we are banning 
business practices that have 
exploited workers and cost them 
hundreds of millions of dollars 
in lost wages.  
>> When unemployment is the 
highest rate since the Great 
Depression, when millions of 
people have seen their hours and
pay slashed, Joe knows it's not 
enough to rebuild the economy 
the way it was before.  We have 
got to build it back better.  
>> He'll build an economy that 
rewards work, not wealth, and 
get rid of the Trump tax cuts 
that only benefit the big 
corporations and the rich, and 
then he'll invest in health 
care, education, and 
infrastructure, and in getting 
small businesses up and running 
again.  
>> Take it from me:  When you're
in the trenches, you want Joe 
Biden right there next to you.  
>> When I wanted to marry the 
man I loved, Joe Biden was the 
first national figure to support
me and my family.  I appreciate 
you, man. 
>> When the auto industry was 
going under, Joe stuck his neck 
out to protect it and helped 
save one and a half million 
jobs. 
>> When our economy was on the 
brink, Joe led the recovery 
effort that created millions of 
jobs, including here in western 
Pennsylvania, and America 
bounced back with the longest 
economic growth stretch in 
history. 
>> That's what happens when Joe 
Biden in your corner, working 
families get a fair shot. 
>> He understands that 
leadership means fighting for 
the people who built this 
country. 
>> All of you.  
>> All of us.  
>> This nation belongs to all of
us, and in every election, we 
choose how we will create a more
perfect union, not by taking 
sides but by taking stock of 
where we are, what we need.  
This year's choice could not be 
more clear.  America faces a 
triple threat, a public health 
catastrophe, an economic 
collapse, and a reckoning with 
racial justice and inequality.  
So, our choice is clear, a 
steady, experienced public 
servant who can lead us out of 
this crisis, just like he has 
done before, or a man who only 
knows how to deny and distract, 
a leader who cares about our 
families or a president who only
cares about himself.  We know 
Joe Biden.  America, we need Joe
Biden.  To make your voice 
heard, text VOTE to 30330.  
In a democracy, we do not elect 
saviors.  We cast our ballots 
for those who see our struggles 
and pledge to serve, who hear 
our dreams and work to make them
real, who defend our way of life
by protecting our right to vote.
Faced with a president of 
cowardice, Joe Biden is a man of
proven courage.  He will restore
our moral compass by confronting
our challenges, not by hiding 
from them or undermining our 
elections to keep his job.  
In a time of voter suppression 
at home and authoritarians 
abroad, Joe Biden will be a 
champion for free and fair 
elections, for a public health 
system that keeps us safe, for 
an economy that we build back 
better than before, and for 
accountability and integrity in 
our system of justice.  We stand
with Joe Biden, because this 
isn't just about defeating 
Donald Trump.  We are in this to
win for America, so let's get it
done.  
>> TRACEE ELLIS ROSS:  Hello.  
I'm Tracee Ellis Ross, and how 
exciting to hear from young 
elected leaders across the 
country, a perfect way to begin 
night two of the Democratic 
National Convention, uniting 
America.  
Tonight is all about leadership.
This unprecedented moment calls 
for leadership, steady, 
inclusive leadership, driven by 
people who understand that our 
democracy is based on the value 
of each and every one of us 
being treated with dignity and 
respect, leaders who respond to 
the needs of hardworking 
Americans who, right this 
minute, are unable to pay rent, 
put food on the table and keep 
their loved ones safe. 
As a black woman I find myself 
at a crucial intersection in 
American politics. For far too 
long, Black female leadership in
this country has been utilized 
without being acknowledged or 
valued.  But, we are turning the
tide.  
Hello Kamala! Her nomination is 
historic for anyone who believes
in "We the People."  Like 
Senator Harris, and many we saw 
in the keynote, today's leaders 
emerge from communities that 
have long been underrepresented.
They're charting new paths in 
the spirit of Shirley Chisholm, 
Charlotta Bass, Fannie Lou 
Hamer, and John Lewis. They get 
in good trouble, necessary 
trouble, they call out things 
otherwise ignored, elevating our
nation and changing the course 
of our lives for the better.
With every vote we cast for 
forward-thinking honest leaders,
we chip away at ingrained 
systems of inequity and we bend 
the arc of justice. 
True leaders use everyone's 
contributions and experiences to
inform policy, bridging our 
burdened past to a safe, 
equitable, even joyful future. 
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are 
that bridge: Heeding voices 
within the movement for racial 
justice, listening to the people
and acting with empathy and 
compassion to reflect our shared
humanity.  
Tonight, we'll hear from a 
number of American leaders, 
including former acting US 
Attorney General Sally Yates, 
who refused to defend an 
unconstitutional travel ban and 
paid for it with her job.  
>> The threat to this nation, to
our democracy is real.  It's 
clear, and it's present.  We 
have watched the President now 
for three years.  Look at what 
he is doing, instilling fear, 
not joking, instilling fear, 
sewing division, stoking racial 
division, undercutting every 
institution that was designed to
check the abuse of power by the 
President or anyone else, all of
this for what reason?  All of 
this in order to solidify his 
base and expand his power. 
>> SALLY YATES:  Good evening. 
I'm Sally Yates.  Speaking at a 
political convention is 
something I never expected to be
doing, but the future of our 
democracy is at stake.  
I'm here in my hometown of 
Atlanta, where as a young lawyer
I joined our nation's justice 
department.  For nearly 
30 years, through democratic and
republican administrations, I 
worked alongside my DOJ 
colleagues to advance our 
nation's promise of equal 
justice.  I served as Deputy 
Attorney General in the 
Obama-Biden Administration and 
stayed on as acting Attorney 
General for the Trump 
transition.  Then, ten days in, 
I was fired for refusing to 
defend President Trump's 
shameful and unlawful Muslim 
travel ban.  That was the start 
of his relentless attacks on our
democratic institutions and 
countless dedicated public 
servants.  
Like me, these officials didn't 
swear an oath to a person or a 
party.  Public servants promised
to defend our constitution, 
uphold our laws, and work on 
behalf of the American people.  
But from the moment President 
Trump took office, he's used his
position to benefit himself 
rather than our country.  He's 
trampled the rule of law, trying
to weaponize our justice 
department to attack his enemies
and protect his friends.  Rather
than standing up to Vladimir 
Putin, he fawns over a dictator 
who is still trying to interfere
in our elections.  He's even 
trying to sabotage our postal 
service to keep people from 
being able to vote.  
His constant attacks on the FBI,
the free press, inspectors 
general, federal judges, they 
all have one purpose:  To remove
any check on his abuse of power.
Put simply, he treats our 
country like it's his family 
business.  This time bankrupting
our nation's moral authority, at
home and abroad.  
But our country doesn't belong 
to him.  It belongs to all of 
us.  Joe Biden embraces that.  
He has spent his entire life 
putting our country first.  He 
has never backed down from a 
challenge or a bully.  He 
summons the best in us and lives
by the values that define us as 
Americans, service, integrity, 
courage, compassion.  
There are countless stories of 
Joe Biden reaching out to 
someone in their moment of need.
Well, this is our country's 
moment of need.  We need a 
president who respects our laws 
and the privilege of public 
service, who reflects our values
and cares about our people.  
We need a president who will 
restore the soul of America.  We
need Joe Biden.  
>> Over the last four years, we 
have experienced failed 
leadership under Donald Jr. 
Trump. 
>> We have had to deal with this
insanity. 
>> I have watched our country 
deteriorate. 
>> The cover-ups, the lying, the
favoritism. 
>> The disregard for the 
Constitution. 
>> Donald Trump has failed 
America. 
>> It is time for us to reclaim 
our constitutional and 
democratic values. 
>> We need to prove to the 
world, and most importantly 
prove to ourselves that we are 
better than this. 
>> We need an experienced 
leader. 
>> A leader that has passion, 
integrity, and strategic 
leadership skills.  
>> And his name is Joe Biden. 
>> Joe Biden. 
>> Joe Biden is that leader. 
>> And he really wants the best 
for this country. 
>> He understands and respects 
our democracy, the rule of law, 
and the US Constitution.  
>> He will move toward creating 
a more perfect union.  
♪ Rise up ♪
>> SENATE MINORITY LEADER 
SCHUMER:  Hi, this is Senator 
Chuck Schumer, democratic leader
from my hometown, Brooklyn, 
New York.  Behind me is a sight 
I see out of my window every 
night, the Statue of Liberty, 
the same site that greeted 
hopeful immigrants, like my 
grandparents, a symbol of 
freedom and a beacon of hope to 
the world.  Today, Donald Trump 
has divided our country, 
diminished our greatness, and 
demeaned everything that this 
statue represents.  He even hid 
in a bunker as Americans were 
tear gassed and beaten.  
Millions are jobless.  170,000 
Americans have died from COVID, 
and Donald Trump says "It is 
what it is."  Presidents should 
never say "it is what it is."  
President Lincoln honoring the 
great sacrifice at Gettysburg 
didn't say it is what it is. 
President Roosevelt, seeing a 
third of the nation ill-housed, 
ill-clad, and ill-nourished, 
didn't say "it is what it is." 
We need a president with 
integrity and experience to lead
us out of this crisis, a man 
with a steady hand and a big 
heart who will never, ever quit 
on America.  That man is my 
friend Joe Biden.  He will be a 
great president, but if we are 
going to win this battle for the
soul of our nation, Joe can't do
it alone.  Democrats must take 
back the Senate.  We will stay 
united, from Sanders and Warren 
to Mansion and Warner, and with 
our unity, we will bring bold 
and dramatic change to our 
country.  Let me tell you some 
of the things that we do.  With 
President Biden and Vice 
President Harris and a 
democratic majority, we will 
make health care affordable for 
all.  We'll undo the vicious 
inequality of income and wealth 
that has plagued America for far
too long, and we'll take strong,
decisive action to combat 
climate change and save the 
planet.  We will protect voting 
rights, fight systemic racism in
the criminal justice system and 
in our economy, and restore a 
Supreme Court that looks out for
people, not corporations.  We'll
rebuild our infrastructure and 
make sure every home, from inner
city to rural America, has 
broadband.  We will save the 
post office and once and for all
defeat COVID-19, this evil 
disease, and beckoned by the 
lady behind us, we will reform 
our immigration system so that 
immigrants learning to be free 
will at last become American 
citizens.  
Together, we can reignite the 
hope once felt by millions of 
men and women, huddled masses on
creeking ships who glimpsed this
mighty woman with her torch, 
knowing they could build a 
better life here in America.  
And out of this long national 
nightmare, America will finally 
awaken to a brighter future and 
a new day.  
>> Senator Chuck Schumer 
reminding us that leadership 
requires integrity and 
accountability.  Real leaders 
don't ask what we can do for 
them.  They ask what they can do
for us.  In a minute, we'll hear
from two former presidents who 
will speak to that, but first, 
here are Caroline Kennedy and 
her son Jack Schlossberg.  
>> It was a call to the young at
heart, regardless of age or 
party.  Times have changed, but 
the themes of my grandfather's 
speech -- courage, unity, and 
patriotism -- are as important 
today as they were in 1960, and 
once again, we need a leader who
believes America's best days are
yet to come.  We need Joe Biden.
>> I have admired Joe Biden 
since I was a Senate intern in 
1974.  He shared my uncle 
Teddy's commitment to civil 
rights, women's rights, and 
working families.  He was a 
senator who cared, who led, who 
inspired.  That's why I helped 
choose him to be Barack Obama's 
runningmate in 2008.  When I was
US ambassador to Japan, I got to
see Vice President Biden in 
action, stepping off Air Force 
2, radiating American optimism 
and generosity.  I saw a leader 
who was tough but fair, who 
commanded the trust and respect 
of other nations, and who always
put America's interests first.  
Joe Biden's lifetime of public 
service reflects his unwavering 
commitment to our highest 
ideals.  
>> In this election, our future 
is on the ballot.  For my 
generation, it will define the 
rest of our lives.  We need to 
tackle climate change.  We need 
to end systemic racial 
injustice.  We need to make 
health care available for 
everybody, and we need to 
rebuild an economy that helps 
working families.  We can do 
this.  We can reach these new 
frontiers, but only with a 
president who asks what he can 
do for our country and what 
together we can do to build a 
better world.  It's up to us.  
Let's get it done.  Let's elect 
Joe Biden the next President of 
the United States!  
>> It's a great pleasure for 
Jimmy and me to join you in 
celebrating our next President 
of the United States, Joe Biden.
We have known and admired Joe 
and Jill for many years, and 
most recently I have worked with
him on tackling the demands 
faced by the more than 53 
million unpaid caregivers in our
country who are juggling work 
and other family 
responsibilities and putting 
their own physical and mental 
health and well-being at risk.  
Joe knows well, too well, the 
sorrows and struggles of being a
family caregiver.  From Joe's 
time as a young widower, thrust 
into single parenthood with a 
demanding job, to he and Jill 
caring for their parents at the 
end of their lives, he knows 
caregiving is hard, even on the 
good days.  Joe and I also know 
the challenges of caregiving for
those who served in the military
and returned with visible and 
invisible wounds, and we know 
those caregivers need a leader 
in the White House.  Jimmy and I
are voting for Joe because he 
recognizes the challenges facing
our families and has the heart 
and the talent to make life 
better for all Americans.  
>> PRESIDENT CARTER:  When I ran
for President in 1976, Joe Biden
was my first and most effective 
supporter in the Senate.  He has
been my loyal friend.  He has 
the decency and character to 
bring us together and restore 
America to its greatness.  We 
deserve a person with integrity 
and judgment, someone who is 
committed to what is best for 
the American people.  Joe is 
that kind of leader, and he is 
the right person for this moment
in our nation's history.  He 
understands that dignity 
determines not only our vision 
but our actions.  More than 
ever, that's what we need.  
During these uncertain times, 
Joe Biden realizes that many 
American lives can be saved each
day through the use of masks and
testing, as recommended by 
medical experts.  
Joe Biden must be our next 
president.  
>> Good evening.  A President's 
election is the world's most 
important job interview.  We 
hire a leader to solve our 
problems, create opportunities, 
and give our kids better 
tomorrows.  That's a tall order 
this year.  With the COVID-19 
outbreak on a path to killing 
200,000 people and destroying 
millions of jobs and small 
businesses, how did Donald Trump
respond?  At first, he said the 
virus was under control and 
would soon disappear.  When it 
didn't, he was on TV every day 
bragging on what a great job he 
was doing, while our scientists 
waited to give us vital 
information.  When he didn't 
like the expert advice he was 
given, he ignored it.  
Only when COVID exploded in even
more states did he encourage 
people to wear masks.  By then, 
many more were dying.  When 
asked about the surge in deaths,
he shrugged and said, "It is 
what it is."  But did it have to
be this way?  No.  
COVID hit us much harder than it
had to.  We have just 4% of the 
world's population but 25% of 
the world's COVID cases.  Our 
unemployment rate is more than 
twice as high as South Korea's, 
two and a half times the United 
Kingdom's, more than three and a
half times Japan's.  Donald 
Trump says we are leading the 
world.  We are the only major 
industrial economy to have its 
unemployment rate triple.  At a 
time like this, the Oval Office 
should be a command center.  
Instead, it's a storm center.  
There's only chaos.  
Just one thing never changes, 
his determination to deny 
responsibility and shift the 
blame.  The buck never stops 
there.  
Now, you have to decide whether 
to renew his contract or hire 
someone else.  If you want a 
president who defines the job as
spending hours a day watching TV
and zapping people on social 
media, he's your man.  Denying, 
distracting and demeaning works 
great if you're trying to 
entertain or inflame, but in a 
real crisis, it collapses like a
house of cards.  COVID just 
doesn't respond to any of that. 
To beat it, you have got to 
actually go to work and deal 
with the facts.  
Our party is united in offering 
you a very different choice, a 
go to work president, a down to 
earth, get the job done guy, a 
man with a mission to take 
responsibility, not shift the 
blame, concentrate, not 
distract, unite, not divide.  
Our choice is Joe Biden.  Joe 
helped bring us back from a 
recession before, and he can do 
it again.  In 2009, Barack Obama
and Joe Biden started with the 
worst economy since the Great 
Depression, and when they were 
done, they delivered more than 
six straight years of job 
growth.  
What did Joe do?  He accepted 
responsibility for implementing 
the Recovery Act, his work 
created a lot of new jobs and 
started many new companies in 
communities across our country. 
Now Joe is committed to building
America back again.  
How?  He's giving us smart 
detailed plans to invest in 
areas vital to our future, 
innovative financing for modern 
factories and small businesses, 
good jobs and green energy and 
conservation to combat climate 
change, a modern infrastructure 
that brings small town and rural
America the connectivity and 
investment others take for 
granted, and a plan to ensure 
that black Americans, Latino 
Americans, and Native Americans,
women, immigrants and other 
communities left behind are full
participants in our economy and 
our society.  
Joe Biden wants to build an 
economy far better suited to our
changing world, better for young
people, better for families 
working and raising their kids, 
better for people who lost jobs 
and need new ones, better for 
farmers tired of being 
collateral damage in trade wars,
better for workers caring for 
the sick and elderly and people 
with disabilities, better for 
wages and access to affordable 
health care, including 
prescription drugs.  
Joe won't just put his signature
on a check and try to fool you 
into thinking it came from him. 
He'll work to make sure that 
your paycheck reflects your 
contribution to and your stake 
in a growing economy.  In this 
job interview, the difference is
stark.  
You know what Donald Trump will 
do with four more years, blame, 
bully, and belittle, and you 
know what what Joe Biden will 
do, build back better.  
It's Trump's us versus them 
America against Joe Biden's 
America, where we all live and 
work together.  It's a clear 
choice.  The future of our 
country is riding on it.  
Thank you. 
>> TRACEE ELLIS ROSS:  It's time
to call the roll and officially 
nominate the Democratic 
candidate for President of the 
United States. But this year, 
for the first time, the roll 
call is heading out to all 57 
states and territories, places 
that showcase our nation's 
natural beauty, places where 
people are working together to 
secure a better future or our 
country, and places that are 
working to rebuild and recover, 
like Iowa, where thousands have 
been left homeless and hundreds 
of thousands have been left 
without power in the wake of 
last week's terrible storm.  Our
hearts are with you, Iowa.  
There's so much going on right 
now.  Tonight, we come together 
to nominate a candidate who will
fight for all of us.  The 
convention delegates will do the
official nominating, but you can
join them in supporting Joe 
Biden.  Text JOIN to 30330 to 
get involved. 
And now, the chair of the 
Democratic National Committee, 
Tom Perez.  
>> CHAIRMAN PEREZ:  It's great 
to be here in Milwaukee, a proud
Union town whose grit and 
character reflect the resilience
of our party and our country.  
There's no doubt these last few 
months have been tough, but good
leadership means being able to 
adapt to any situation, and I 
want to thank the people of 
Milwaukee for being such 
gracious and flexible hosts.  
It's also great to be back in 
Wisconsin, where I was lucky 
enough to marry my wife a little
more than three decades ago.  
The progressive movement has 
deep roots here, and since today
is the 100th anniversary of the 
19th Amendment's ratification, 
we should point out that 
Wisconsin was the first state to
ratify it.  
What's more, in its one-word 
motto, Forward, Wisconsin 
captures something so important 
about America, the way that no 
matter what challenges today 
brings, we always believe a 
better future is possible.  
That's what my parents believed 
when they emigrated to this 
country nearly a century ago, 
fleeing the iron fist of a 
brutal dictator in the Dominican
Republic.  This nation welcomed 
them with compassion, and they 
quickly learned that their hope 
of building a better life 
through hard work was shared by 
generations of Americans.  
Indeed, every American's story 
is a story about that hope, that
sense of possibility.  It's what
United States us -- unites us, 
defines us, and it's what 
sustains us now.  We will work 
to meet our extraordinary 
challenges, because progress is 
made by the hopeful, not the 
cynical, and we will do that 
work together, because movements
are built by the many, not the 
few.  And as you watch tonight's
decidedly unconventional roll 
call and reflect on the 
diversity of our nation, 
remember, you too are part of 
the American story.  And no 
matter where you come from or 
where you're watching from 
tonight, you have a place in Joe
Biden's Democratic Party.  
>> Delegates and distinguished 
guests, under our procedural 
rules, two democratic candidates
submitted nominating documents 
to our convention secretary for 
the Office of President of the 
United States, Senator Bernie 
Sanders and Vice President Joe 
Biden.  
As such, each candidate has 
provided names of individuals 
who will make nominating and 
seconding speeches on their 
behalf.  
We will begin with nominating 
and seconding speeches for 
Senator Sanders.  
Speaking on his behalf will be 
two progressive champions, Bob 
King and Representative 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  
>> I'm Bob King.  As a proud 
union member and former 
president of a great American 
union, the UAW, I am honored to 
nominate Bernie Sanders for 
president.  For decades, Bernie 
has led the fight for working 
families, fighting for workers 
rights to organize unions and 
collectively bargain.  In a time
of enormous inequality, he 
understands that we must 
confront large corporations, 
which have far too much control 
over our economy and our 
politics.  Bernie believes 
health care is a human right and
should not be contingent on a 
job.  He knows we can rebuild 
our crumbling infrastructure by 
creating millions of good paying
union jobs, while combatting 
climate change.  Bernie's moral 
clarity has emboldened the 
Democratic Party's fight for 
justice, the grassroots energy 
of his supporters has 
implemented important advances 
in our platform.  Bernie will 
continue to lead a movement that
helps defeat trump and delivers 
transformational change.  I am 
excited to nominate a great 
champion of the working class, 
Senator Bernie Sanders.  
>> SENATOR OCASIO-CORTEZ:  Good 
evening and thank you to 
everyone here today endeavoring 
towards a better, more just 
future for our country and our 
world.  In fidelity and 
gratitude to a mass people's 
movement, working to establish 
21st century social, economic, 
and human rights, including 
guaranteed health care, higher 
education, living wages, and 
labor rights for all people in 
the United States, a movement 
striving to recognize and repair
the wounds of racial injustice, 
colonization, misogyny and 
homophobia, and to propose and 
build reimagined systems of 
immigration and foreign policy 
that turn away from the violence
and xenophobia of our past, a 
movement that realizes the 
unsustainable brutality of an 
economy that rewards explosive 
inequalities of wealth for the 
few at the expense of long-term 
stability for the many, and who 
organized a historic grassroots 
campaign to reclaim our 
democracy.  In a time when 
millions of people in the United
States are looking for deep 
systemic solutions to our crises
of mass evictions, unemployment,
and lack of health care, 
(speaking Spanish) and out of a 
love for all people, I hereby 
second the nomination of Senator
Bernard Sanders of Vermont for 
President of the United States 
of America.  
>> Thank you, Mr. King and 
Representative Alexandria 
Ocasio-Cortez.  
We now turn to nominating and 
seconding speeches for Vice 
President Biden.  In a moment, 
we'll hear from Senator Chris 
Coons, who holds the Delaware 
Senate seat once held by the 
Vice President, and 
Representative Lisa Blunt 
Rochester, my colleague in the 
House, but first we'll hear from
a working American who met Joe 
Biden in a most unexpected 
place, the elevator where she 
worked.  
>> I take powerful people up on 
my elevator all the time.  When 
they get off, they go to their 
important meetings.  Me?  I just
head back to the lobby.  But in 
the short time I spent with Joe 
Biden, I could tell he really 
saw me, that he actually cared, 
that my life meant something to 
him, and I knew, even when he 
went into his important meeting,
he'd take my story in there with
him.  That's because Joe Biden 
has room in his heart for more 
than just himself.  
We have been through a lot, and 
we have tough days ahead, but 
nominating something like that 
to be in the White House is a 
good place to start.  That's why
I nominate my friend Joe Biden 
as the next President of the 
United States.  
>> SENATOR COONS:  I am Senator 
Chris Coons from Delaware, a 
small state where people expect 
to see their senators and even 
sometimes their vice president 
at the supermarket, at a church 
festival, out in their 
community.  Joe fights for us 
because he knows our struggles 
and hopes.  He knows the pain of
loss and the worries of working 
parents, and he has always 
brought that same personal 
concern he showed for Jacquelyn 
to getting things done, as our 
senator and then as President 
Obama's Vice President.  
Joe has tackled gun violence and
climate change.  He stood up to 
dictators and supported our 
troops.  He led the recovery 
effort after the last recession 
and delivered on a promise to 
make our health care system 
fairer and stronger.  Through it
all, Joe Biden has never 
forgotten where he is from.  He 
has been sustained by his faith 
and family through the toughest 
of times, and he has the heart 
and the compassion for this 
moment.  For all of these 
reasons and more, it's my honor 
to second the nomination of my 
good friend Joe Biden to be the 
next president of these United 
States.  
>> I'm congresswoman Lisa Blunt 
Rochester.  In some history 
class in the future, children 
are learning about this moment. 
They are learning about our 
pain, our grief, our worry.  But
they are also learning about a 
man named Joe Biden, about how 
he restored decency to our 
government and integrity to our 
democracy.  They are learning 
about how we conquered a 
pandemic, stood united for 
racial justice, and built our 
economy back better than before.
They are learning about how his 
leadership gave their generation
a fighting chance.  They are 
learning about us, too, about 
the resolve and the unity we 
showed against the forces of 
hatred and division, about the 
work we will do over the next 
11 weeks, and about the 
night, when despite our 
distance, we came together to 
nominate Joe Biden for President
of the United States, a 
nomination I'm honored to 
second.  
>> Thank you all.  Pursuant to 
our convention rules, we'll now 
proceed to a roll call by states
on the selection of our party's 
candidate for the President of 
the United States.  
Secretary Rae?  
>> SECRETARY RAE:  Mr. Chairman,
coming to you live from the 
Wisconsin Center, it's time to 
begin our virtual trip around 
America.  Our journey begins at 
the site of a major step forward
in our national journey towards 
justice.  Let's go to Alabama. 
>> REPRESENTATIVE SEWELL:  John 
Lewis marched across this bridge
in 1965 to demand the right to 
vote. A lifetime later, civil 
rights and voting rights remain
America's great unfinished 
business. But those who walked 
this path before us showed us 
the way forward. If we want to 
honor John Lewis's incredible 
life, let's restore the Voting 
Rights Act and ensure that our 
democracy belongs to all 
Americans. 
Alabama casts 8 votes for Bernie
Sanders, and the great state of 
Alabama casts 52 votes for our 
next president of these United 
States, Joe Biden.  
>> Alaska, the waters we rely on
to feed our families are 
threatened by climate change.  
When Joe Biden was Vice 
President, he and President 
Obama made sure Alaska had a say
in how these waters were 
managed.  President Trump took 
it away.  Alaska casts seven 
votes for Bernie Sanders and 12 
votes for the next president, 
Joe Biden.  
>> American Samoa.  
>> Joe Biden honors our service,
and we trust him to support our 
community.  As vice president, 
he helped expand rural 
infrastructure to communities 
like ours.  Broadening our 
economic capacity.  As 
president, he will continue to 
strengthen rural America, from 
New England to the Pacific. 
>> On behalf of the Governor and
the American Samoa Democratic 
Party, we proudly cast 11 votes 
for our next President of the 
United States of America, Joe 
Biden!  
>> Arizona.  
>> As a middle schoolteacher, I 
know that public educators are 
doing everything they can to 
make sure our students have 
quality learning experiences 
this fall.  As a mother of a 
high school freshman, I know 
that it's far from perfect.  As 
an NEA Union organizer, I'll 
fight to make sure that it's 
scientists, parents and 
educators that decide when it's 
safe to go back to school, not 
politicians.  As an Arizona 
Latina, I proudly cast our 
votes, 29 for Bernie Sanders, 
and 51 for our next president, 
Joe Biden.  
>> Arkansas.  
>> Feeding people is an act of 
love, and I think we could all 
use a little extra love these 
days, so we took our food trucks
out into the communities to 
deliver meals, made right here 
at the Clinton presidential 
center for our neighbors in 
need.  Even when our leaders let
us down, Americans kept looking 
out for each other.  Arkansas 
casts nine votes for Bernie 
Sanders and 27 votes for our 
next president, Joe Biden.  
[ Applause ]
>> California.  
>> Climate change is not a hoax.
It's real, and communities of 
color have been bearing the 
brunt of this reality for 
generations.  
>> Joe Biden's plan to crack 
down on polluters to protect our
air and water is about 
environmental justice and 
economic justice.  
>> He'll prioritize equity and 
bring new clean energy jobs to 
black and brown neighborhoods, 
because that is how we build 
back better.  
>> California, home to our next 
Vice President, Kamala Harris, 
casts 231 votes for Bernie 
Sanders and 263 votes for our 
next president, Joe Biden!  
>> Colorado.  
>> We grew up in poverty as 
immigrants, but we have been 
able to make a decent living.  
We are extremely lucky.  But now
we have three family members 
that tested positive for COVID, 
and it just doesn't feel safe to
put Evan and Emma back to 
school.  Distance learning is 
going to be hard on them and on 
us, but millions of working 
families will have it much 
harder.  I know Joe Biden cares 
about these struggles, and 
that's why I trust him to fight 
for us.  With one abstention, 
Colorado will cast 36 votes for 
Bernie Sanders and 42 for our 
next president, Joe Biden.  
>> Connecticut.  
>> Firefighters are proud to put
our lives on the line every day 
to protect our neighbors.  It's 
a badge of courage.  But while 
we are protecting your family, 
we need a president who is 
committed to protecting ours, 
and that's Joe Biden.  He has 
the courage we respect and the 
commitment to working Americans 
we need now.  
On behalf of our Governor, Ned 
Lamont, I am honored to cast 
Connecticut's 75 votes for our 
next president, Joe Biden.  
>> Delaware.  
>> Delaware passes.  
>> Delaware passes.  Democrats 
abroad.  
>> We represent the millions of 
Americans who live outside the 
United States and vote back 
home.  Americans abroad can make
a difference in the states that 
will decide this year's 
elections.  We need your help to
elect a president that will 
restore our standing around the 
world.  Go to 
votefromabroad.org.  We are 
proud to cast ten votes for 
Bernie Sanders and 7 votes for 
our next president, Joe Biden.  
>> Welcome to my hometown and 
the best city in the world.  
Washington, DC is 607,000 
residents strong.  We raise 
families, pay taxes and serve in
the United States military, just
like every American in the 50 
states.  The House of 
Representatives just passed an 
historic piece of legislation to
make Washington, DC the 51st 
state.  From Black Lives Matter 
Plaza, the District of Columbia 
proudly casts one vote for 
Bernie Sanders and 43 votes for 
the next President of the United
States, Joe Biden.  
>> Florida.  
>> When my daughter was martyred
in Parkland, Joe Biden called to
share in our family's grief.  I 
quickly learned about his 
decency and his civility, but I 
also learned about his toughness
and about how he has beaten the 
NRA.  Together with the other 
victims of gun violence and our 
nation's youth, Joe Biden and 
Kamala Harris will take on the 
NRA and win.  Let's with inback 
our freedom to live without 
fear.  Florida casts 192 votes 
for our next president, Joe 
Biden.  
>> Georgia.  
>> My mentor, Congressman John 
Lewis, knew that the right to 
vote is sacred.  Georgians know 
that our ability to vote is 
under attack, long lines, voter 
suppression.  Donald Trump is 
even trying to slow down the 
mail and force us to risk our 
lives to cast a ballot.  We will
not be silenced.  Take out your 
phone and text VOTE to 30330 and
make sure that your voice is 
heard in this election.  Georgia
casts our 117 votes for our next
president, Joe Biden.  
>> Guam.  
>> Seven years ago, this 
summer -- became US citizens.  
We are proud of our resilience, 
proud of our indigenous 
heritage, and proud to be a part
of this historic moment for our 
party and for our nation.  From 
the land where America's day 
begins, Guam casts two votes for
Bernie Sanders and 11 votes for 
our next president, Joe Biden.  
>> Hawai'i.  
>> I came from the Philippines 
to Hawai'i, the land of 
indigenous native Hawai'ians.  
Today, I want to speak to my 
fellow immigrants, to the 
essential workers on the front 
lines, to the service members to
wear our flag, to the parents 
with big dreams for their 
children.  No matter where we 
came from, immigrants belong in 
our country's long fight for 
justice.  We belong in the 
America we are building 
together.  Hawai'i, birthplace 
of President Obama, casts nine 
votes for Bernie Sanders and 23 
votes for our next president, 
Joe Biden.  
>> Idaho.  
>> We are not waiting for 
Washington to act on climate 
change.  Here in Boise, we know 
that clean energy doesn't just 
mean a healthier planet.  It 
means good paying jobs.  Imagine
what we could do with a 
president that listens to 
science and leads with courage. 
Idaho casts nine votes for 
Bernie Sanders and 16 for our 
next president, Joe Biden!  
>> Illinois.  
>> Discrimination has denied too
many black Americans the chance 
to own a home and build wealth. 
Joe Biden has a plan to end 
racist lending practices and 
help more people of color 
achieve the American dream of 
owning a home.  This isn't just 
about racial justice.  It's 
about stronger communities and 
more economic security for 
working families.  Illinois 
casts 59 votes for Bernie 
Sanders and 122 votes for our 
next president, Joe Biden.  
>> Indiana.  
>> Here in South Bend, we once 
feared that our best days were 
behind us, but then we 
reimagined our economy, with new
jobs and even new industries.  
The Hoosier state is ready to 
lead America's recovery, with 
our diverse communities, our 
talented workers, and our best 
in the world agriculture.  Joe 
Biden's plan gives us a 
blueprint to revitalize 
industrial cities and rural 
areas alike.  Indiana casts two 
votes for my friend Bernie 
Sanders and 86 for the next 
president, Joe Biden.  
>> Iowa.  
>> We were going to talk to you 
tonight about biofuels, but the 
powerful storm that swept 
through Iowa last week has taken
a terrible toll on our farmers, 
our small businesses and our 
families who are still without 
power.  
>> So while we have the honor of
casting Iowa's votes, 11 for 
Bernie Sanders and 38 for Joe 
Biden, we also want to ask you 
to keep Iowans in your thoughts 
during this difficult time. 
>> Kansas. 
>> I am a fourth-generation 
family farmer, but I worry about
the next generation.  Many of 
our young folks end up moving 
from rural communities to find 
jobs.  Joe Biden has a plan to 
help new farmers get a good 
start, and by funding schools 
and health care, he'll make sure
that rural communities remain 
great places to live, work, and 
raise a family.  For generations
to come.  Kansas, the sunflower 
state, proudly casts ten votes 
for Bernie Sanders and 35 votes 
for our next president, Joe 
Biden.  
>> Kentucky.  
>> One day, when I was 14, my 
mom would wake up calling 911.  
I was scared not only because 
she was sick but because I knew 
we couldn't afford the bill.  
Thank God she survived.  When I 
told Joe Biden that story in 
2008, he promised to continue to
fight for folks like us and got 
busy passing ObamaCare.  Two 
years ago, when mom had a heart 
attack, we only had to worry 
about her getting better, 
because Joe kept his promise.  
The commonwealth of Kentucky 
casts all 60 votes for the next 
President of the United States, 
Joe Biden.  
>> Louisiana.  
>> This used to be an abandoned 
building.  Now it's a thriving 
arts studio, a community hub, a 
place where independent artists 
can make their name and parents 
can bring their kids during 
these difficult days of remote 
learning. 
>> Our cities are strong because
our people make them strong, and
our economy will come back 
because our small businesses 
will bring it back.  
>> Louisiana casts all 60 of our
votes for my friend and the next
president, Joe Biden.  
>> Maine. 
>> My American dream, I am 
living it.  A 25-acre organic 
farm on a lake, a roadside farm 
stand and a bed and breakfast.  
My husband and I aren't 
corporate tycoons.  We just want
to make an honest living and 
feed our community.  Joe Biden 
has a plan to help more 
Americans, especially people of 
color, start their own 
businesses.  Maine casts nine 
votes for Bernie Sanders and 22 
votes for our next president, 
Joe Biden.  
>> Maryland. 
>> Black Lives Matter, and when 
it comes to racial justice, 
black opportunity matters. 
>> When Joe Biden rebuilds our 
middle class, he won't leave 
anyone behind.  His plan, more 
capital for black entrepreneurs.
>> More funding for public 
schools and HBCUs and paying 
every worker a fair wage.  
>> That's building back better. 
>> Maryland. 
>> The home of Fredrick 
Douglass. 
>> Casts 119 votes for our next 
president, Joe Biden.  
>> Massachusetts. 
>> We need a plan to get the 
economy going again.  Joe Biden 
will get the pandemic under 
control, create new jobs in 
manufacturing and clean energy, 
help small businesses and our 
restaurants recover, and build 
back better so that our economy 
is stronger and fairer than it 
was before.  Massachusetts casts
30 votes for Bernie Sanders and 
83 votes for our next president,
Joe Biden.  
>> Michigan. 
>> Michigan auto workers are the
best in the world, but we'd be 
nowhere without Joe Biden, and a
lot of folks wanted to let 
Detroit go bankrupt, but Joe 
Biden believed in us, and 
together, we fought to save our 
auto industry.  
>> Now he's got a plan to create
a million new auto jobs by 
investing in clean energy.  Joe 
Biden believes in American 
workers.  He's got our back, and
we have got his.  
>> Michigan casts 53 votes for 
Bernie Sanders and 92 votes for 
our next president, Joe Biden.  
>> Minnesota.  
>> I am here in Minnesota, the 
home of the headwaters of the 
Mississippi River.  We know that
a bridge shouldn't fall down in 
the middle of America, but it 
did, and we came together to 
rebuild it.  That's what we do 
in America.  That's what Joe 
Biden will do as president.  
He'll build back better.  He'll 
cross the river of our divides 
and unite this country from our 
cities to our suburbs to our 
rural areas, and now we will 
virtually cross the great 
Minnesota to St. Paul to hear 
from my friend, Mayor Melvin 
Carter. 
>> Thank you, Senator.  I'm 
proud to cast Minnesota's 31 
votes for Bernie Sanders and 60 
votes for next US President, Joe
Biden.  
>> Mississippi.  
>> We reflect the progression of
a people from slavery to 
citizenship to scholarship and 
leadership, contributing to 
Mississippi and the world.  Our 
alumni are leaders, like 
convention chairman Congressman 
Bennie Thompson.  Joe Biden 
wants to invest $70 billion in 
HBCUs.  Imagine what impact that
could have.  Imagine what impact
HBCUs could have on America.  
Mississippi casts two votes for 
Bernie Sanders and 38 votes for 
our next president, Joe Biden.  
>> Missouri.  
>> As a member of the 
international union of 
bricklayers and allied craft 
workers, local 1 St. Louis, I 
love walking around the city and
seeing the contributions that 
has my brothers and sisters have
made.  We stand ready to rebuild
our nation's infrastructure, and
with Joe Biden's leadership, 
we'll create millions of new 
jobs, building back better.  
Missouri casts 28 votes for 
Bernie Sanders and 50 votes for 
our next president, Joe Biden.  
>> Montana.  
>> When COVID shut down my 
college, I came home to my 
parents' ranch to finish senior 
year online, but some days I 
can't even get a video to load 
or an email attachment to send. 
Without reliable internet, 
there's no remote learning, no 
virtual doctor visits, and just 
try starting a small business.  
Rural broadband can be a game 
changer for communities like 
mine, and Joe Biden has a plan 
to make it happen.  Montana 
casts one vote for Bernie 
Sanders and 18 votes for our 
next president, Joe Biden.  
>> Nebraska. 
>> Workers are dying from COVID,
but a lot of us don't have paid 
sick leave or even quality 
personal protective equipment.  
We are human beings, not robots,
not disposable.  We want to help
you keep feeding your family, 
but we need a president who will
have our backs.  Nebraska casts 
33 votes for our next president,
Joe Biden.  
>> Nevada. 
>> Joe Biden knows it's not 
enough to praise workers, we 
have to reward them.  So let's 
raise the minimum wage to $15 an
hour, empower workers to 
negotiate for better benefits 
and safer workplaces, and make 
it easier to pay for things like
health care and higher 
education.  I am proud to cast 
24 votes for Bernie Sanders and 
25 votes for our next president,
Joe Biden.  
>> New Hampshire.  
>> Hello from the granite state.
We trust Joe Biden.  Joe will 
provide the leadership necessary
to bring us back from this awful
pandemic.  Joe has a plan to 
attack global climate change 
once and for all, and Joe will 
restore honesty, decency and 
trust to the White House, 
reunite all Americans, and build
a better future for all.  The 
great State of New Hampshire 
awards nine delegates to our 
friend and neighbor, Bernie 
Sanders, and 24 delegates to the
next President of the United 
States, Joe Biden.  
>> New Jersey.  
>> We have been hit hard by 
COVID, but we are coming back, 
but we have to be smart.  We 
have to listen to the experts, 
and we have to have a president 
who has a plan.  That's why in 
memory of all of those we have 
lost, in solidarity with those 
who were sick or struggling, and
in eternal gratitude for our 
heroic frontline workers, 
New Jersey casts five votes for 
Senator Bernie Sanders and 139 
votes for the next President of 
the United States, Joe Biden.  
>> New Mexico.  
>> Greetings and good evening.  
My name is Derek Lente, state 
representative coming to you 
from the homeland of my 
ancestors here at the beautiful 
Pueblo Sandia.  New Mexico is 
home to 23 sovereign nations 
with a rich multicultural 
history.  We all call this place
home, and we believe that we owe
it to the next generation to 
protect the natural and cultural
resources, and to that end, also
respect tribal sovereignty.  
New Mexico proudly casts four 
votes for Bernie Sanders and 42 
votes for the next President of 
the United States of America, 
Joe Biden.  
>> New York.  
>> As an immigrant from 
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 
and an 11-99 SEIU registered 
nurse, I am proud to be a part 
of America's fight against 
COVID-19, but many health care 
workers don't get paid sick 
leave or have enough protective 
equipment.  I have two children 
with asthma and a mother who is 
high risk.  I worry every day 
about bringing this virus home 
to them.  
Joe Biden's plan will help us 
take better care of your loved 
ones, as well as our own.  Along
with Lieutenant Governor Kathy 
Hokle, I cast New York's votes, 
44 votes for Bernie Sanders, and
277 for our next president, Joe 
Biden!  It's Joe time!  
[ Applause ]
>> North Carolina.  
>> I have been doing this for a 
long time, so let me just be 
plain.  Black people, especially
black women, are the backbone of
this party, and if we don't show
up, democrats don't get elected.
I'm putting on my mask, and we 
are going to every corner in 
North Carolina to help organize,
because we need to make sure 
everyone shows up for Joe Biden.
He would show up for us.  
North Carolina casts 39 votes 
for Bernie Sanders and 83 votes 
for the next President of the 
United States, Joe Biden.  
>> North Dakota.  
>> Welcome to the homelands of 
the -- I graduated from a class 
of just 44 students, and I had 
to drive three hours just to 
take the SATs, but growing up, I
knew that college was a ladder 
that could take you anywhere.  
Joe Biden knows that everyone 
deserves a chance to climb that 
ladder.  So, as a proud tribal 
member, as a Mexican-American, 
and as a Harvard graduate, I am 
proud to cast North Dakota's 
votes, ten for Bernie Sanders, 
and eight for our next 
president, Joe Biden.  
>> Northern Mariana Islands. 
>> Hello from paradise, the 
Northern Mariana Islands.  We 
may be far away, but we are 
American citizens, and this 
year, for the first time in 
decades, we finally have a 
democratic slate, because 
democrats organize everywhere.  
But we don't get to vote for 
president, so please don't wait 
yours.  The Northern Mariana 
Islands is proud to cast two 
votes for Bernie Sanders and 
nine votes for our next 
president, Joe Biden.  Thank 
you.  
>> Ohio.  
>> It seems like every time 
working people believe in a 
Donald Trump promise, they wind 
up getting screwed.  Well, Joe 
Biden has more than just a 
promise.  He actually has a plan
to bring jobs back to America. 
>> Like electric vehicles or a 
national network of vehicle 
charging infrastructure that 
will create good-paying jobs for
skilled union workers, like 
Josh, and the future will be 
made in America.  Ohio casts 20 
votes for Senator Bernie Sanders
and 134 votes for the next 
president, Joe Biden.  OH!  
>> IO!  
>> Oklahoma. 
>> 99 years ago, racial violence
devastated a thriving black 
community here in Tulsa.  Today,
hatred still lives in our 
nation, but so does resolve.  
Oklahoma refused to let 
ourselves be defined by the 
violence then.  Oklahoma casts 
24 votes for our next president,
Joe Biden.  
>> Oregon. 
>> As black Americans standing 
on native land, we proudly 
represent Oregon.  COVID-19 and 
racism laid bare unequal health 
care access in communities of 
color. 
>> Democrats are working 
together to bridge divides to 
make sure that everyone has 
equal access to low or no-cost 
quality care.  Today Oregon 
casts 16 votes for Bernie 
Sanders. 
>> And casts 57 votes for Joe 
Biden!  
>> Pennsylvania.  
>> When Joe Biden was young, his
father came to this house in 
Scranton, sat down on Joe's bed,
and told him he lost his job.  
It's a moment that stayed with 
Joe his entire life.  Right now,
all across America, working 
families are experiencing that 
same fear and uncertainty, but 
Joe Biden has a plan to help 
them and to help our country 
build back better, creating 
millions of good paying jobs, so
more parents will be able to 
tell their kids what Joe's dad 
said to him all of those years 
ago.  It's going to be okay.  
Pennsylvania casts 34 votes for 
Senator Bernie Sanders and 175 
votes for the next President of 
the United States, Scranton's 
own Joe Biden.  
[ Cheers and applause ] .
>> Puerto Rico.  
>> (Speaking Spanish.)  
>> Rhode Island.  
>> Rhode Island, the ocean 
state, where our restaurant and 
fishing industry have been 
decimated by this pandemic.  I'm
lucky to have a governor, Gina 
Romundo, whose program lets our 
fishermen sell their catches 
directly to the public, and our 
state appetizer, calamari, is 
available in all 50 states.  We 
cast one vote for Bernie Sanders
and 34 votes for the next 
president, Joe Biden.  
>> South Carolina.  
>> Mr. Chairman, I am Jamie 
Harrison, candidate for the 
United States Senate.  Speaking 
from the campus of South 
Carolina State University, the 
alma mater of majority whip Jim 
Clyburn and the late Dr. Clyburn
for whom the college is named.  
This proud HBCU has contributed 
22 general officers to our armed
services, and tonight I proudly 
cast South Carolina's 64 votes 
as follows:  15 for Bernie 
Sanders, and 49 for our next 
President of the United States, 
Joe Biden.  
>> South Dakota.  
>> Relatives, as a 
first-American and citizen of 
the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, I
become you to the Black Hills, 
the site of my creation story 
and home to the great Sioux 
nation.  We often say we are all
related.  Our next president 
must lead by this philosophy for
the betterment of our next seven
generations.  We cast three 
votes for Senator Bernie Sanders
and 17 votes for our next 
president, Joe Biden.  
>> Tennessee.  
>> 100 years ago tonight, 
suffragists based here at the 
Hermitage Hotel in Nashville 
cheered as Tennessee became the 
36th and deciding state to 
ratify the 19th amendment, 
granting women the right to 
vote.  This year, I'm casting my
very first presidential vote for
Joe Biden.  Women will decide 
this election, and we'll replace
Donald Trump with a president 
who respects us.  Tennessee 
casts 23 votes for Bernie 
Sanders and 50 votes for our 
next President of the United 
States, Mr. Joseph R. Biden!  
[ Cheers and applause ] .
>> Texas.  
>> A year ago, my safe community
of El Paso was targeted by a 
domestic terrorist who murdered 
23 innocent people, injured 23 
more, and devastated all of us. 
His motivation was racism and 
hate.  In the face of continued 
gun violence in America, we 
demand change.  The time has 
come to act.  With one 
abstention, the great state of 
Texas casts 98 votes for Bernie 
Sanders and 161 votes for our 
next president, Joe Biden.  
>> Utah.  
>> Here in Utah, we have had 
mail-in voting for years.  If 
you're registered to vote, you 
automatically get sent a ballot.
It's fast.  It's reliable, and 
it's easy for everyone to 
participate.  In 2016, we had 
turnout well over 80%, and this 
year we are expecting even 
higher.  That's why democrats 
and republicans here in Utah 
agree, mail-in voting 
strengthens our democracy.  Utah
casts 17 votes for Bernie 
Sanders and 16 votes for our 
next president, Joe Biden.  
>> Vermont. 
>> The state of Vermont, 
strongly believing in economic 
justice, social justice, racial 
justice, and environmental 
justice, proudly supporting 
democracy and the constitution 
of the United States, and 
vehemently opposed to the 
authoritarianism and racism of 
the Trump Administration, is 
proud to cast 15 votes for 
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders 
and nine votes for the next 
President of the United States, 
Joe Biden.  
>> The US Virgin Islands.  
>> In recognition of our 
governor and delegate to 
Congress, we bring you greetings
from the Virgin Islands of the 
United States.  
>> Yay!  
>> Where young Alexander 
Hamilton was raised at his 
vacation home, with white sand 
beaches and friendly people.  We
cast 13 votes for Joseph R. 
Biden.  
>> Virginia.  
>> Three years ago, my beloved 
city, Charlottesville, Virginia,
was attacked by white 
supremacists, and a young woman 
was killed.  We were attacked 
again when Donald Trump praised 
those racists, turning his back 
on a community that just wanted 
peace.  That was the day Joe 
Biden decided to join this 
battle for the soul of America. 
Over time, my wife and I have 
come to know his soul.  He's a 
decent, compassionate man.  He 
will bring this nation together.
Virginia casts 32 votes for 
Bernie Sanders and 91 votes for 
our President Joe Biden.  
>> Washington.  
>> As a 15-year-old refugee from
Vietnam, I knew that education 
was the key to finding 
opportunities in my new home.  
When having children of my own, 
I became an advocate to improve 
the public education system that
gave me a chance to contribute 
to our America.  
Democrats invest in education, 
because we are committed to 
fighting for all kids.  
Washington casts 43 votes to 
Senator Bernie Sanders and 66 
votes to our next president, Joe
Biden.  
>> West Virginia. 
>> West Virginians have changed 
the narrative about public 
education.  Parents, teachers, 
and service personnel have 
worked together to fight for 
safe and welcoming schools, 
sufficient funding for classroom
equipment, and fair wages for 
teachers and school service 
personnel.  Elections matter, b 
keep fighting to guarantee a 
quality education for all our 
children, and let's elect a 
president who will fight 
alongside us.  West Virginia 
casts 34 votes for our next 
president, Joe Biden.  
>> Wyoming.  
>> After our son Matthew's death
in Wyoming, Joe Biden helped 
pass legislation to protect 
LGBTQ Americans from hate 
crimes.  Joe understands more 
than most our grief over Matt's 
death, but we see in Joe so much
of what made Matt's life 
special, his commitment to 
equality, his passion for social
justice, and his boundless 
compassion for others.  
>> With three abstentions, 
Wyoming casts four votes for 
Bernie Sanders and 11 votes for 
the next President of the United
States, Joe Biden.  
>> Wisconsin.  
>> Welcome back to Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, a great city on 
native land on a great lake.  
It's the place where I was born 
and raised, right in the heart 
of the 53206 zip code.  This is 
a community that has faced 
significant challenges due to 
historical injustices, but what 
so many don't see is the 
opportunity in communities like 
this and those across America 
just like it.  We know that we 
build a better future for our 
nation by channeling Wisconsin's
legacy as the birthplace of the 
labor and the progressive 
movement and uniting around a 
bold, inclusive agenda that 
uplifts every community.  In the
pursuit of a more just future, 
one that recognizes health care 
as a human right, one that 
tackles the climate crisis and 
takes on racial and economic 
justice.  Wisconsin casts 30 
votes for Bernie Sanders and 67 
for the next President of the 
United States of America, Joseph
Biden -- Joseph R. Biden.  
>> Delaware.  
>> Long before this train 
station bore his name, you would
see Joe Biden up here on the 
platform with the rest of the 
crowd, on his way to work or 
going home to his family.  
That's always been his North 
Star, delivering for families 
like his own, working to build a
better place.  
>> Our nation faces daunting 
challenges, but I have known Joe
Biden for more than 40 years, 
and there's nobody that I would 
trust more to unite our party 
and restore our standing in the 
world.  What's more, he's 
humble.  He tells the truth.  He
treats everybody he encounters 
with respect and builds bridges,
no the -- and not walls.  
>> Delaware is proud to cast its
32 votes for our favorite son 
and our next president.  
>> Our friend, Delaware's Joe 
Biden.  
[ Music playing ]
♪ ♪
♪ Celebrate good times, come 
on ♪
♪ Let's celebrate ♪
♪ There's a party going on right
here ♪
♪ A celebration ♪
♪ ♪
[ Music playing ]
>> Thank you to all our 
delegations.  I am pleased to 
announce that Vice President Joe
Biden has officially been 
nominated by the Democratic 
Party as our candidate for 
President of the United States. 
Vice President Biden is hereby 
invited to deliver an acceptance
speech.  
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  Well, 
thank you very, very much, from 
the bottom of my heart.  Thank 
you all.  It means the world to 
me and my family, and I'll see 
you on Thursday.  Thank you, 
thank you, thank you!  
[ Cheers and applause ] 
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
[ Music playing ]
>> TRACEE ELLIS ROSS:  Come on, 
that was so sweet with the 
grandkids.  Yay!  And now we 
have an official nominee.  On to
the next step, electing Joe 
Biden and Kamala Harris in 
November.  Make sure you have a 
plan to vote.  Text VOTE to 
30330 to find out how.  
Now we are going to talk about a
topic that touches all of our 
lives, health care.  The 
Affordable Care Act was game 
changing.  This pandemic has 
revealed just how important it 
is to protect and improve it.  
Increasing access to bringing 
down its costs have always been 
a priority for Joe Biden, 
because for Joe and for all of 
us, health care is personal.  
♪ ♪
>> It's the toughest battles 
that call for the steadiest 
leadership.  Again and again, 
they were told to give up on 
affordable health care.  They 
knew it would cost them 
politically.  
>> The republicans say this will
prove to be unpopular. 
>> Bill is a legislative train 
wreck. 
>> But not merely as much as it 
would cost the American people 
if they did nothing. 
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  We are
not going to slow up on 
providing affordable health care
for Americans.  Health care is 
natural American right.  
>> Giving up on the Affordable 
Care Act would have meant 
leaving 20 million without 
coverage out in the cold.  But 
Joe Biden wasn't about to give 
up, because he knew what it was 
like to stand in their shoes.  
He was sworn into the Senate 
next to a hospital bed, his wife
and daughter had been killed in 
a car crash, and lying in that 
bed were his two sons.  40 years
later, one of those little boys,
his son, Beau, was diagnosed 
with cancer and given only 
months to live.  It's hard to 
imagine a greater grief than 
losing your child, but Joe 
always knew that his family was 
one of the lucky ones.  After 
that accident, his son got 40 
more years of life, all because 
he had health care.  
>> Without objection, the motion
to reconsider is laid on the 
table.  
♪ ♪
>> Now it's unthinkable that 
Donald Trump is trying to take 
that health care away.  In the 
middle of a pandemic, he's still
trying to get rid of the 
Affordable Care Act.  This fight
is personal for Joe.  As 
personal as it gets.  
So, when Joe says he has a plan 
to strengthen the Affordable 
Care Act, protect those with 
pre-existing conditions, and 
expand access to every American,
he's thinking about how having 
health care saved his boys.  His
plan talks about lowering drug 
prices and making care more 
affordable.  He's thinking about
Beau, who spent his final days 
in comfort, because he was 
insured.  Joe Biden knows what 
affordable health care means to 
American families because of 
what it's meant to his.  
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  This 
is my promise to you.  When I'm 
President, I will take care of 
your health care coverage and 
your family the same way I would
my own.  That's what the 
presidency is, the duty to care,
to care for all of us, not just 
those who vote for us but all of
us.  This job is not about me.  
It's about you.  It's about us. 
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
>> How are you?  You handsome 
boy.  
>> He was born in '15 and with a
heart condition, you know, known
as -- arteries and ended up 
requiring a transplant, and 
thankfully, the ACA had already 
taken effect, but now that's 
something that we think about 
all of the time, especially with
his coverage and the potential 
of coverage maxes, and his 
initial hospital stay was over 
$3 million that was billed back 
to the insurance. 
>> I remember thinking as Beau 
laid dying in bed, and we'd lie 
in bed with him, his brother and
I and his sister, and thinking 
to myself, what in God's name 
would I do if his doctor walked 
in and said, I'm sorry, you've 
outrun your insurance and 
reached your cap.  Suffer the 
last few months of your life on 
your own. 
>> I came from a part of the 
country in rural Missouri where 
basically everybody was a 
republican and I was a 
republican, and I lost my voice,
and we put off going to the 
doctor, because we didn't have 
the health insurance.  When we 
finally got in to somebody that 
could take a look at my throat, 
they said, wow, you have got 
cancer.  It was stage four, the 
worst kind of cancer you can 
have.  My wife applied for 
insurance through the Affordable
Care Act, and my coverage began 
on April 1st in 2012, and that 
same day, they started my chemo 
and radiation, and it saved my 
life.  I'm here today.  
>> Generally speaking, as a 
church, you're concerned about 
spiritually, but you're also 
concerned about other areas of 
their life, and that includes 
their physical or physiological 
well-being, because the Bible 
talks about all of us, but there
are people in our country, and 
in fact, people in my church, 
that can't take advantage of it 
because they don't have good 
health care.  That's pretty 
discouraging to me, and that's 
pretty discouraging to them.  
>> Because of the myasthenia 
gravis and the fact that it's a 
very rare disease, a lot of our 
medications, we have to fight 
for, and before the ACA, we 
worried about our medications.  
We worried about the 
pre-existing conditions for our 
children.  We worried about age 
and the cap, because having that
cost of the medications, we 
would have reached that million 
dollar cap in no time, but once 
the ACA passed, we no longer had
that cap, of the million 
dollars.  
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  The 
fear that you all live in, 
understandably, if somehow 
tomorrow they said, no 
insurance, you're not covered, 
is just devastating.  
Hey, Laura, how are you doing?  
How are you doing?  
>> Doing well. 
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  Well, 
you beat Hodgkin's lymphoma.  
The first day you got chemo, the
republicans voted to gut the 
ACA.  I can't imagine what it 
was like going to sleep at 
night, wondering what to do.  
>> Ever since I was diagnosed, 
every night I would go to bed 
concerned about what news I 
would get in the morning, and 
even still, even today, there's 
still -- they are still trying 
to take away our health care, 
even during a pandemic. 
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  Look, 
we are going to make sure we 
don't lose that ACA.  We are 
going to provide a Medicare-like
option as a public option, and 
in any state, if you qualify for
Medicaid and the state doesn't 
provide it, you would 
automatically be enrolled.  I'm 
going to try to protect you like
I would my own family, my own 
family, and I promise you that. 
♪ Rise up ♪
>> I met Joe last year at a 
campaign event to thank him for 
being so involved in the battle 
to cure cancer.  Indeed, I have 
what's been diagnosed as 
terminal cancer.  The 
inspiration and the empathy and 
the human love that he would 
share with me has kept me going.
>> I made an appointment for my 
wellness checkup provided for by
the Affordable Care Act.  I was 
told that I had ovarian cancer. 
I finished my course of 
treatment, and since then, I 
have been cancer-free, and I am 
very grateful for that.  
>> I chose to become a Joe Biden
delegate as I watched with our 
nation as President Donald Trump
sought to dismantle the 
Affordable Care Act.  
>> My purpose in life right now 
is to devote all of my energy to
getting Joe elected. 
>> I anxiously jumped at the 
chance to become a Biden 
delegate.  
>> He will continue to 
strengthen the Affordable Care 
Act so that diseases like cancer
don't go undetected.  
♪ Rise up ♪
[ Music playing ]
♪ ♪
>> Hey, it's me, Dad.  By the 
time you are watching this, you 
will have grown up to be strong 
and courageous, but I don't know
how much longer I'll be around 
for you. 
>> I was diagnosed with ALS 
today, which is a deadly, 
debilitating disease.  
>> After I was diagnosed, the 
President passed a tax bill that
put my health care at risk.  So 
I went to Washington, DC.  
>> My next guest made headlines 
when he confronted a republican 
senator on an airplane. 
>> I wanted to help create a 
better country for you to live 
in.  
>> Democracy is beautiful.  
>> Democracy is beautiful!  
>> All that matters to me is to 
make you proud, because I'm 
already so proud of you.  
>> Hello, America.  My name is 
Ady Barkan, and I am speaking to
you through this computer voice 
because I have been paralyzed by
a mysterious illness called ALS.
Like so many of you, I have 
experienced the ways our health 
care system is fundamentally 
broken, enormous costs, denied 
claims, dehumanizing treatment 
when we are most in need.  Since
my shocking diagnosis, I have 
traveled the country, meeting 
countless patients like me, 
demanding more of our 
representatives and our 
democracy.  Today, we are 
witnessing the tragic 
consequences of our failing 
health care system.  In the 
midst of a pandemic, nearly 100 
million Americans do not have 
sufficient health insurance.  
And even good insurance does not
cover essential needs, like 
long-term care.  Our loved ones 
are dying in unsafe nursing 
homes.  Our nurses are 
overwhelmed and underprotected, 
and our essential workers are 
treated as dispensable.  We live
in the richest country in 
history, and yet we do not 
guarantee this most basic human 
right.  Everyone living in 
America should get the health 
care they need, regardless of 
their employment status or 
ability to pay.  
Even during this terrible 
crisis, Donald Trump and 
republican politicians have 
trying to take away millions of 
people's health insurance.  With
the existential threat of 
another four years of this 
president, we all have a 
profound obligation to act.  Not
only to vote, but to make sure 
that our friends, family, and 
neighbors vote as well.  
We must elect Joe Biden.  Each 
of us must be a hero for our 
communities, for our country, 
and then with the compassionate 
and intelligent president, we 
must act together and put on his
desk a bill that guarantees us 
all the health care we deserve. 
Text VOTE to 30330 to learn how 
to vote safely, because our 
lives depend on it.  
>> TRACEE ELLIS ROSS:  Politics 
and elections can seem like 
these far away things that one 
person doesn't have the power to
change.  But what's happening in
our country right now makes it 
clear how personal politics are.
I have discovered that when I 
get informed and participate, my
fear gets smaller.  Voting is a 
big part of that.  
So, knowing the change you want,
vote for the leaders you think 
will make it happen, and if 
you're able, if you can, help 
fund this campaign.  Please go 
to JoeBiden.com and chip in 
whatever you can.  
With leaders like Joe Biden and 
Kamala Harris, we can build back
better here at home, and once 
again strengthen our nation's 
security and standing in the 
world.  
♪ Rise up, come on rise up ♪
>> My name is Demarcus Gilliard.
I'm 34 years old, and I 
currently live in Los Angeles, 
California.  I'm a 2009 graduate
of the US naval academy in 
Annapolis, and I served on 
active duty as an officer in the
Marine Corps for six years.  I 
took an oath to support, uphold 
and defend the constitution of 
the United States of America, 
and I know that Joe Biden in his
years of public service took a 
similar oath, and he understands
the sacrifice of the men and 
women in uniform who are 
overseas right now fighting for 
the ideals of this nation, that 
liberty and justice can be 
extended to all people.  I know 
that Joe Biden understands that 
at his core.  I trust him to 
lead us on day one into a 
greater future.  There is 
nothing more important for me 
right now than making sure that 
we restore the soul of our 
nation, and I think that Joe 
Biden is the best person to do 
that.  So, thanks, Joe.  
♪ Rise up ♪
>> SECRETARY KERRY:  Hi, I'm 
John Kerry.  For the eight years
of the Obama Biden 
Administration, we led by 
example.  We forged a 195-nation
agreement to attack climate 
change.  We stopped Ebola before
it became a pandemic.  Donald 
Trump inherited a growing 
economy and a more peaceful 
world, and like everything else 
he inherited, he bankrupted it. 
When this president goes 
overseas, it's a blooper reel.  
America deserves a president who
is looked up to, not laughed at.
Donald Trump pretends Russia 
didn't attack our elections, and
now he does nothing about Russia
putting a bounty on our troops. 
So, he won't defend our country.
He doesn't know how to defend 
our troops.  The only person 
he's interested in defending is 
himself.  This is the bottom 
line:  Our interests, our 
ideals, and our brave men and 
women in uniform can't afford 
four more years of Donald Trump.
Our troops can't get out of 
harm's way by hiding in the 
White House bunker.  They need a
president who will stand up for 
them, and President Biden will. 
Joe's moral compass is always 
pointed in the right direction, 
from the fight to break the back
of apartheid, to the struggle to
wake up the world to genocide in
the Balkans, Joe understands 
that none of the issues of this 
world, not nuclear weapons, not 
the challenge of building back 
better after COVID, not 
terrorism and certainly not the 
climate crisis, none can be 
resolved without bringing 
nations together with strength 
and humility.  
Joe understands our values don't
limit our power; they magnify 
it.  He knows you can't spread 
democracy around the world if 
you don't practice it at home, 
and he knows that even the 
United States of America needs 
friends on this planet.  
Before Donald Trump, we used to 
talk about American 
exceptionalism.  The only thing 
exceptional about the incoherent
trump foreign policy is that it 
has made our nation more 
isolated than ever before.  Joe 
Biden knows we aren't 
exceptional because we bluster 
that we are.  We are exceptional
because we do exceptional 
things.  
On June 6th, 1944, young 
Americans gave their lives on 
the beaches of Normandy to 
liberate the world from tyranny.
Out of the ashes of the war, we 
rebuilt the world, and that was 
exceptional.  It is the opposite
of everything that Donald Trump 
stands for. 
This moment is fight for the 
security of America and the 
world.  Only Joe Biden can make 
America lead like America again.
If you agree, text JOIN to 
30330.  Thank you.  
>> In the Situation Room, 
presidents make decisions of war
and peace.  So when Joe Biden 
walks into the room, first and 
foremost in his mind is how will
my decision impact the lives of 
the American people. 
>> He is experienced.  He has 
made the tough calls. 
>> He's got tremendous courage, 
character, and judgment, and he 
can be tough.  I have witnessed 
it close up.  
>> Joe Biden is decisive and 
well prepared for any issue. 
>> There's no one more qualified
than Joe Biden to be setting at 
the head of a table in the 
situation room making decisions 
for this country.  
>> Having sent his son to war, I
don't think anyone can be more 
ready than Vice President Biden.
>> He knows exactly what's at 
stake when he sends our troops 
overseas.  
>> Biden understands how 
important it is to have allies 
standing together with us.  They
are force multipliers.  
>> Joe Biden has the unique 
ability to connect with people. 
He knows the leaders, and he has
dealt with them for years, knows
what makes them tick. 
>> They trust him, trust his 
judgment, and they know that his
word is good. 
>> I know that Biden's personal 
diplomacy will save American 
lives. 
>> To build these relationships 
takes decades, and to tear them 
down, all it takes is a tweet.  
>> Thanks to Donald Trump, our 
adversaries are stronger and 
bolder.  
>> Donald Trump has had a love 
fest with dict dictaters, inclu 
China and Russia.  
>> I never thought I would have 
a president who is a danger to 
national security.  
>> President Trump has degraded 
and debased the presidency and 
our country in the eyes of the 
world.  
>> The Russians offered basis 
points on US soldiers?  I was 
shocked when I read that, but 
the president didn't even ask 
Vladimir Putin about it.  That's
un-American. 
>> There's something wrong with 
that.  I mean, that's a 
dereliction of duty.  You're 
failing the troops.  You're 
failing this country. 
>> The first thing a president 
needs to do is find out what the
facts are.  This president 
doesn't care about facts. 
>> Biden cares about the safety 
and welfare of American 
servicemen and women.  Our 
military had a policy to 
maintain our presence in Syria, 
who actually came to the aid of 
the Kurds against ISIS.  
President Trump told us to 
simply abandon the Kurds.  It's 
shameful.  I have heard him on 
the phone with some pretty tough
characters.  We talk about his 
character and decency, but he is
tough as nails, and everybody 
knows it. 
>> He will do the right thing, 
no matter the political cost. 
>> I have served two presidents 
and one vice president.  I have 
seen the Trump Administration 
make decisions without any 
thought with massive life and 
death consequences. 
>> Joe Biden is uniquely 
qualified to be President of the
United States. 
>> If you want a strong America,
you want Joe Biden.  
>> Hi.  I'm former Secretary of 
State Colin Powell.  100 years 
ago, a young immigrant left a 
dirt farm in Jamaica and set out
for America.  Three years later,
a ship pulled into New York 
Harbor, and a young Jamaican 
woman gazed up at the statue of 
liberty for the first time, and 
they became my parents.  I went 
to Vietnam and later became 
Secretary of State.  The values 
I learned growing up in the 
south Bronx and serving in 
uniform were the same values 
that Joe Biden instilled in him 
in Scranton, Pennsylvania.  I 
support Joe Biden for the 
presidency of the United States,
because those values still 
define him, and we need to 
restore those values to the 
White House.  
Our country needs a commander in
chief who takes care of our 
troops in the same way he would 
his own family.  For Joe Biden, 
that doesn't need teaching.  It 
comes from the experience he 
shares with millions of military
families, sending his beloved 
son off to war and praying to 
God he would come home safe.  
Joe Biden will be a president we
will all be proud to salute.  
With Joe Biden in the White 
House, you will never doubt that
he will stand with our friends 
and stand up to our adversaries,
never the other way around.  He 
will trust our diplomats and our
intelligence community, not the 
flattery of dictators and 
despots.  He will make it his 
job to know when anyone dares to
threaten us.  He will stand up 
to our adversaries with strength
and experience.  They will know 
he means business.  
I support Joe Biden, because 
beginning on day one, he will 
restore America's leadership and
our moral authority.  He'll be a
president that knows America is 
strongest when, as he has said, 
we lead both by the power of 
example and the example of our 
power.  He will restore 
America's leadership in the 
world and restore the alliances 
we need to address the dangers 
that threaten our nation, from 
climate change to nuclear 
proliferation.  
Today, we are a country divided,
and we have a president doing 
everything in his power to make 
it that way and keep us that 
way.  
What a difference it will make 
to have a president who United 
States us, who restores our 
strength and our soul.  I still 
believe that in our hearts, we 
are the same America that 
brought my parents to our 
shores, an America that inspires
freedom around the world.  
That's the America Joe Biden 
will lead as our next president.
Thank you very much.  
♪ ♪
>> It was a friendship that 
shouldn't have worked.  John, a 
former Navy pilot, just released
from a north Vietnamese prison, 
Joe, a young senator from 
Delaware, but in the 1970s, Joe 
was assigned a military aide for
a trip overseas.  
>> I was a Navy Senate liaison 
and used to carry your bags on 
overseas trips.  
>> The son of a gun never 
carried my bags.  He was 
supposed to carry my bags, damn 
it, but he never carried my 
bags.  
>> John and Joe traveled 
thousands of miles together.  
The families got to know each 
other, gathering for picnics in 
the Bidens' backyard.  
>> They would just sit and joke.
It was like a comedy show 
sometimes to watch the two of 
them.  
>> But when John was elected to 
the Senate as a republican from 
Arizona, they found themselves 
on opposing sides.  
>> We are in different parties, 
and we hold different views on 
many issues.  
>> They would be going at it on 
the floor, and you would think, 
oh, these guys must really, 
really, really dislike each 
other, but they would be having 
dinner that night together.  
>> Senator Biden had great 
respect for the institution of 
the Senate.  He built 
relationships that were cordial,
that were personal.  
>> We have always been willing, 
when we thought the other guy 
was right, to cross the aisle 
and lock arms.  It's good for 
the country.  
>> It takes trust to get things 
done in a divided government, 
and I think with Joe Biden, his 
colleagues knew that your points
were equally valid.  To him --
>> Even if a deal seemed out of 
reach, it was always Joe to 
tried to cross the aisle. 
>> He was like a natural for 
that.  He just had an ability to
find the common ground but never
give up your principles. 
>> For three decades, Joe was 
able to move his colleagues and 
find a way forward, on violence 
against women, banning chemical 
weapons, assault weapons, and 
controlling nuclear arms.  
>> It was a style of legislating
and leadership that you don't 
find much anymore.  
>> And when millions of 
Americans were faced with losing
their health insurance, it was 
Joe's friend who saved ObamaCare
by crossing the aisle.  
>> McCain cast his vote with a 
thumbs-down.  
>> John and I have been given 
several awards about 
bipartisanship.  We don't 
understand why you should get an
award for bipartisanship.  
>> Thank you for your example on
how to remain the same good guy 
that you were when you first got
here, most of all for your 
friendship.  My life and the 
lives of many have been enriched
by it.  
[ Music playing ]
( "Good Day Sunshine" by the 
Beatles). 
>> I have a rule that I never 
think of anything negative when 
I'm running.  
♪ I need to laugh ♪
>> When I set my mind to 
something, I find a way to get 
it done. 
>> She is so damn tough and 
loyal.  When I met Jill, I knew.
My brother said, there's this 
woman, you'll really like her, 
Joe.  So I gave her a call, and 
she had a date that night.  
>> You said, "Do you think you 
could break your date?"  
>> Oh, that's right.  And what 
did you do?  
>> Well, I called and told the 
guy that I had a friend in from 
out of town, and went out with 
Joe.  
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  I was 
30, and I was a Senator, and I 
was a widower.  Several years 
earlier, a tractor trailer 
broadsided my wife and three 
children.  My wife was killed, 
and my daughter was killed.  I 
wasn't big on the whole date 
scene thing, but when I met 
Jill, I fell in love with her 
when I saw her.  
♪ I have got sunshine on a 
cloudy day ♪
>> DR. BIDEN:  He said that I 
would really like to see you 
again, so he's looking at his 
calendar, Thursday, oh, no, no, 
I'm really busy.  No, I'm busy 
Friday.  How about tomorrow?  
And I thought, buddy, you just 
blew your cover.  
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  She's 
owned me since then.  The boys 
fell in love with Jill, too.  
I'm brushing my teeth one 
morning, and they came in, and 
Beau and Hunter said, Dad, we 
think it's time you marry Jill. 
I swear to God.  I asked her to 
marry me five times. 
>> It wasn't just my heart on 
the line.  I loved the boys so 
much, I had to be sure that it 
had to be forever.  
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  "I'm 
going to ask you one more time, 
will you marry me?"  And she 
goes like this, "Okay."  
♪ ♪
She put us back together.  She 
gave me back my life.  She gave 
us back a family.  We were 
raised with the same values.  
>> DR. BIDEN:  I grew up in 
Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, 
right outside of Philly.  My mom
was English-Scottish, and my dad
was Italian.  My grandmother 
made the homemade noodles that 
would hang, you know, and she 
would be drying her noodles.  
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  They 
are a very close family.  She's 
the oldest of five girls.  
>> She's kind of like the 
godmother of all of us.  
>> I think we have all seen the 
feistiness in her.  There was a 
bully in my school.  She marched
up the street and knocked on his
door, and I punched him right in
the face.  
My father fought in 
World War II.  He was a 
signalman in the Navy, and he 
was very patriotic.  He would 
take us to watch the Blue 
Angels, and he was so proud.  We
worshipped our mother.  I can 
picture her so well, reading for
hours.  She just loved to read, 
and that had a great influence 
on me.  
♪ ♪
I went to college at the 
University of Delaware.  Then I 
taught in the high schools.  I 
mean, I got up every single day 
so excited to go teach.  
When I married Joe, I took off 
time to establish myself as the 
boys' mom.  We don't use the 
term stepmother.  
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  Beau 
and Hunt said, no, we have a mom
and a mommy.  Our mommy died.  
This is our mom.  And then along
came Ashley. 
>> Our family was complete.  
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  Yep.  
>> When I was growing up, Mom 
was fun.  The head butting 
started when I was a teenager.  
There were some conflicts.  She 
dealt with it by taking up 
running.  
♪ Well she was an American 
girl ♪
>> She started to basically run 
marathons 
♪ Raised on promises ♪
>> I never, ever doubted that 
anything she set her mind to, 
she could do.  I got to hand her
her doctorate degree in 
education at the University of 
Delaware.  
>> Let's turn it positive, so 
you will pass it.  
>> I would say, she's not your 
average grandmother. 
>> Yeah.  
>> She, you know, she's the 
grandmother who wakes you up at 
like -- what was it, like 
5:00 a.m. on Christmas Eve to go
soul cycling.  
>> Yeah, totally.  We have a lot
of stories, yeah.  
>> She's a prankster.  She's 
very mischievous.  Sometimes 
when she goes on a run, she'll 
find a dead snake, and she'll 
pick it up in put it in a bag 
and use it to scare someone. 
>> That's a classic Jill.  She 
wasn't really a Washington 
person and I don't think ever 
imagined herself being a part of
that.  
>> When Joe was elected to Vice 
President, I just thought, hey, 
I have got to step it up here, 
because there are things that I 
really care about.  Having had a
father in the military, having a
son deployed in Iraq, I saw the 
need to support military 
families.  
>> Dr. Biden could draw anyone 
in, and they felt like they were
talking to an old friend.  That 
is one of her superpowers. 
>> When she was Second Lady, 
Jill told me that she would like
to continue teaching at 
community college, and I said 
that's insane, you cannot 
possibly do that.  
>> DR. BIDEN:  And I said I know
I can do both jobs. 
>> I never saw her on any day of
the week where she wasn't 
carrying a huge stack of papers 
to grade. 
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  As 
Second Lady, she was teaching 
full-time for eight years, 15 
credits a semester.  
>> DR. BIDEN:  These were 
students who wanted to be in 
your classroom, and I saw their 
tenacity, and they were taking 
care of children, just like I 
had done.  
>> She gave 100% from her energy
to the students.  She's a great 
teacher.  
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  
Teaching is not what Jill does; 
it's who she is.  Jill just 
simply cares.  She cares about 
other people.  
♪ ♪
[ Music playing ]
>> DR. BIDEN:  When Beau was 
diagnosed with brain cancer, 
nobody knew what we were going 
through.  The Secret Service, 
you know, they are not supposed 
to react to your life or what 
you're doing.  They would 
whisper, "I'm praying for you." 
>> Mom, it's your strength that 
holds this family together, and 
I know that you will make us 
whole again. 
>> DR. BIDEN:  You never stop 
grieving, ever, but you do have 
to find purpose. 
Please welcome, my husband, Joe 
Biden!  
Running for President is too 
tough to not be together.  
>> The future first lady of the 
United States.  
>> That's right, there you go.  
>> If Dr. Biden is our first 
lady, the country will be 
getting one of the best humans 
that we have.  
>> She has been through some 
really tough things in her own 
life, and she knows how hard it 
can be.  
>> VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  The 
American people in their heart 
know that she will fight like 
hell for them.  
>> We all need community.  We 
need to depend on others for our
strength, all American families.
We all need each other.  
♪ ♪
>> And now, please welcome 
Dr. Jill Biden.  
>> DR. BIDEN:  I have always 
loved the sounds of a classroom,
the quiet that sparks with 
possibility just before students
shuffle in, the murmur of ideas 
bouncing back and forth as we 
explore the world together.  The
laughter and tiny moments of 
surprise you find in materials 
you've taught a million times.  
When I taught English here at 
Brandywine High School, I would 
spend my summer for the school 
year about to start filled with 
anticipation, but this quiet is 
heavy.  You can hear the anxiety
that echoes down empty hallways.
There is no scent of new 
notebooks or freshly waxed 
floors.  The rooms are dark as 
the bright young faces that 
should fill them are now 
confined to boxes on a computer 
screen.  I hear it from so many 
of you, the frustration of 
parents juggling work while they
support their children's 
learning, or afraid that their 
kids might get sick from school.
The concern of every person 
working without enough 
protection, the despair in the 
lines that stretch out before 
food banks, and the 
indescribable sorrow that 
follows every lonely last breath
when the ventilators turn off.  
As a mother and a grandmother, 
as an American, I am heartbroken
by the magnitude of this loss, 
by the failure to protect our 
communities, by every precious 
and irreplaceable life gone.  
Like so many of you, I'm left 
asking how do I keep my family 
safe.  
You know, motherhood came to me 
in a way I never expected.  I 
fell in love with a man and two 
little boys standing in the 
wreckage of unthinkable loss, 
mourning a wife and mother, a 
daughter and sister.  I never 
imagined, at the age of 26, I 
would be asking myself how do 
you make a broken family whole? 
Still, Joe always told the 
boys, "Mommy sent Jill to us," 
and how could I argue with her? 
And so we figured it out 
together, in those big moments 
that would go by too fast, 
Thanksgivings and state 
championships, birthdays and 
weddings, in the mundane ones 
that we didn't even know were 
shaping our lives, reading 
stories piled on the couch, 
rowdy Sunday dinners and silly 
arguments, listening to the 
faint sounds of laughter that 
would float downstairs as Joe 
put the kids to bed every night,
while I studied for grad school 
or graded papers under the pale 
yellow kitchen lamp, the dinner 
dishes waiting in the sink.  
We found that love holds a 
family together.  Love makes us 
flexible and resilient.  It 
allows us to become more than 
ourselves, together, and though 
it can't protect for us the 
sorrows of life, it gives us 
refuge, a home.  
How do you make a broken family 
whole?  The same way you make a 
nation whole, with love and 
understanding, and with small 
acts of kindness, with bravery, 
with unwavering faith.  
You show up for each other in 
big ways and small ones, again 
and again.  It's what so many of
you are doing right now for your
loved ones, for complete 
strangers, for your communities.
There are those who want to tell
us that our country is 
hopelessly divided, that our 
differences are irreconcilable, 
but that's not what I have seen 
over these last few months.  We 
are coming together and holding 
onto each other.  We are finding
mercy and grace in the moments 
we might have once taken for 
granted.  We are seeing that our
differences are precious, and 
our similarities infinite.  
We have shown that the heart of 
this nation still beats with 
kindness and courage.  That's 
the soul of America Joe Biden is
fighting for now.  
After our son Beau died of 
cancer, I wondered if I would 
ever smile or feel joy again.  
It was summer, but there was no 
warmth left for me.  Four days 
after Beau's funeral, I watched 
Joe shave and put on his suit.  
I saw him steel himself in the 
mirror, take a breath, put his 
shoulders back, and walk out 
into a world empty of our son.  
He went back to work.  That's 
just who he is.  There are times
when I couldn't even imagine how
he did it, how he put one foot 
in front of the other and kept 
going, but I have always 
understood why he did it.  For 
the daughter who convinces her 
mom to finally get a breast 
cancer screening and misses work
to drive her to the clinic, for 
the community college student 
who has faced homelessness and 
survived abuse but finds the 
grit to finish her degree and 
make a good life for her kids, 
for the little boy whose mom is 
serving as a Marine in Iraq, who
puts on a brave face in his 
video call and doesn't complain 
when the only thing he wants for
his birthday is to be with her, 
for all of those people, Joe 
gives his personal phone number 
to, at rope lines and events, 
the ones he talks to for hours 
after dinner, helping them smile
through their loss, letting them
know that they aren't alone.  He
does it for you.  
Joe's purpose has always driven 
him forward.  His strength of 
will is unstoppable, and his 
faith is unshakable, because 
it's not in politicians or 
political parties or even in 
himself.  It's in the providence
of God.  His faith is in you, in
us.  Yes, so many classrooms are
quiet right now.  The 
playgrounds are still, but if 
you listen closely, you can hear
the sparks of change in the air.
Across this country, educators, 
parents, first responders, 
Americans of all walks of life 
are putting their shoulders 
back, fighting for each other.  
We haven't given up.  We just 
need leadership worthy of our 
nation, worthy of you, honest 
leadership to bring us back 
together to recover from this 
pandemic and prepare for 
whatever else is next, 
leadership to reimagine what our
nation will be.  That's Joe.  He
and Kamala will work as hard as 
you do every day to make this 
nation better, and if I have the
honor of serving as your first 
lady, I will too.  
And with Joe as President, these
classrooms will ring out with 
laughter and possibility once 
again.  The burdens we carry are
heavy, and we need someone with 
strong shoulders.  I know that 
if we entrust this nation to 
Joe, he will do for your family 
what he did for ours, bring us 
together and make us whole.  
Carry us forward in our time of 
need, keep the promise of 
America for all of us.  
>> Great job, God love you.  How
are you?  Hey, everyone.  I'm 
Jill Biden's husband.  You can 
see tonight why she's the rock 
in my life.  She loves fiercely,
cares deeply.  Nothing stops her
when she sets her mind to 
getting something right, and, 
you know, for all of you out 
there across the country, just 
think of your favorite educator 
who gave you the confidence to 
believe in yourself.  That's the
kind of first lady, lady, lady, 
lady this Jill Biden will be.  
God love you.  
>> So, go to JoeBiden.com to 
join our campaign.  
>> Thank you all for watching.  
I'll see you soon.  
♪ ♪
[ Music playing ]
( "O-o-H Child" by Five 
Stairsteps.)  
>> Thank you so much for being a
part of this night.  As 
Dr. Biden just reminded us, Joe 
is a steady and experienced 
leader who can bring us together
and help us heal, who will 
support us in getting better.  
Remember, we bend the arc of 
justice, if we participate, if 
we vote.  This moment isn't 
beyond you.  It's up to you.  
Tomorrow night, we'll meet Joe 
Biden's choice for Vice 
President, Kamala Harris, and 
learn more about their vision 
for the future of our country, 
and we'll hear from Senator 
Elizabeth Warren and President 
Obama, plus performances from 
Billie Eilish and others.  Now, 
with his song "break," here's 
John Legend. 
Oh
Yeah
We got a good thing, babe
Whenever life is hard
We'll never lose our way
'Cause we both know who we are
Who knows about tomorrow?
We don't know what's in the 
stars
I just know I'll always follow
The light in your heart
I'm not worried about us
And I've never been
We know how the story ends
We will never break
We will never break
Built on a foundation
Strong enough to stay
We will never break
As the water rises
And the mountains shake
Our love will remain
We will never
No, no, never
We will never
No, no, never
We will never. 
No, no, never 
we will never 
no
The world is dangerous
Throw it all at us
There's nothin' we cannot take
We will never break
We will never break
Built on a foundation
Strong enough to stay
We will never break
As the water rises
And the mountains shake
Our love will remain
We will never
No, no, never
We will never
No, no, never
We will never
No, never
We will never
No
We will never
No, never
We will
Never 
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
>> Tonight is all about 
leadership.  
>> We will work to meet our 
extraordinary challenges, 
because progress is made by the 
hopeful, not the cynical, and we
will do that work together, 
because movements are built by 
the many, not the few.  
>> Faced with a president of 
cowardice, Joe Biden is a man of
proven courage.  He will restore
our moral compass by confronting
our challenges, not by hiding 
from them or undermining our 
elections to keep his job. 
>> We need a president who 
respects our laws and the 
privilege of public service, who
reflects our values and cares 
about our people. 
>> In this job interview, the 
differences stark.  You know 
what Donald Trump will do with 
four more years, blame, bully, 
and belittle.  And you know what
Joe Biden will do, build back 
better.  
>> Joe understands our values 
don't limit our power.  They 
magnify it.  He knows you can't 
spread democracy around the 
world if you don't practice it 
at home.  
>> Joe Biden will be a president
we will all be proud to salute. 
>> I know that if we entrust 
this nation to Joe, he will do 
for your family what he did for 
ours, bring us together and make
us whole, carry us forward in 
our time of need, keep the 
promise of America for all of 
us.  
>> I'm Mariann Budde, bishop of 
the Episcopal diocese of 
Washington, DC, and I'm honored 
to offer the benediction 
tonight.  Hear these words from 
pastor, civil rights leader, and
peace activist William Sloan 
Coffin. 
May God give you the grace never
to sell yourselves short, grace 
to do something big for 
something good, grace to 
remember that the world is too 
dangerous now for anything but 
truth and too small for anything
but love.  
And now may the blessing of God,
the source of all goodness, 
truth, and love, inspire you, 
inspire us all to realize 
Dr. King's dream of the beloved 
community, Congressman Lewis's 
dream of a just society, 
President Lincoln's dream of a 
more perfect union in this 
country, in our time.  Amen.  
>> Delegates and distinguished 
guests, having concluded this 
evening's convention program, we
will stand in recess until 
tomorrow evening.  
[Gavel pounding]
