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So, emotion in all the right places without overdoing it and cohesive sentence structure. 'While he is no longer with us, Beau inspires me every day,' Biden said, his voice breaking a little bit. Instead, his acceptance speech was a passionate plea in which he raised his voice when speaking out against 'cozying up to dictators' and choked up when he talked about his oldest son, Beau, who passed away in 2015 from brain cancer.

Biden didn't mumble his way through cringe-inducing half sentences in which the end sounded like it had nothing to do with the beginning - something audiences had to witness during some of the Democratic primary debates. But it’s hard to see how anything that happened on Thursday night will diminish his coalition or dislodge him as the race’s front-runner.What a relief! Joe Biden's speech on Thursday night, which capped off the Democratic National Convention and had him accept his party's nomination for president, was pretty great. Some real heroes.”īiden is polling low enough that it’s easy to see another candidate overtaking him at some point. And my purpose is to do what I’ve always tried to do and stay engaged in public policy,” Biden said, before connecting his suffering to “a lot of people been through a lot worse than I have who get up every single morning, put their feet one foot in front of another, without the help I had. “The way I’ve dealt with it is finding purpose. “It came back.” Losing his son Beau to cancer, Biden added, was “like losing part of my soul.” “I lost my faith for a while,” he said of his experience losing his wife and daughter in a car crash.

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Asked what his greatest “professional setback” was, the former vice president had the good sense to collect himself and explain that any professional setback he had ever suffered didn’t come close to the personal suffering he’s experienced. People need help now, hope now.”įinally, he ended on a memorable high note. “We’re talking four, six, eight, ten years, depending on who you talk about, before we get to Medicare for All,” Biden said. Later, Biden hit his rivals for proposing grand Medicare for All plans that would take years to implement. “Thus far, my distinguished friend, the senator on my left, has not indicated how she pays for it,” he said, referring to Warren, while Sanders has only gotten “about halfway there.” He contrasted his $740 billion plan with the $30 trillion Medicare for All plan of Warren and Sanders early in the debate. We’ve got a Constitution,” he shot back.īiden also got the better of his opponents during the discussion of Medicare for All, the most important policy debate in the Democratic primary. She utterly failed to provide any constitutional argument in favor of banning assault weapons by executive fiat, and Biden stuck to his guns. “Well, I mean, I would just say, hey, Joe, instead of saying, ‘No, we can’t,’ let’s say ‘ Yes, we can,’” Harris replied, before laughing uproariously at her own zinger as is her wont. They said, ‘I’m going to issue an executive order.'” Biden saying, “There’s no constitutional authority to issue that executive order when they say ‘I’m going to eliminate assault weapons,'” saying, “you can’t do it by executive order any more than Trump can do things when he says he can do it by executive order.”ĭoes the vice president have a point there? In recent days former Vice President Biden has said about executive orders, “Some really talented people are seeking the nomination.

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