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In his first speech as an opposition presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden warned that the United States is experiencing “four historical crises at the same time, a perfect storm,” but said that, unlike what his electoral rival promises, the president Donald Trump, “a miracle will not come.”

“All choices are important, but we know in our hearts that this one will have more important consequences. We can choose a different path to heal, to get up. Our personality, our decency, our values ​​and who we want to be, all this is decided in the election“said the 77-year-old Democratic leader from his hometown, Wilmington, Delaware.

After accepting the presidential candidacy for the upcoming elections in November, Biden described with figures and personal stories the health, economic, political and deepening climate change crises. “If the current president is re-elected, we know well what will happen, everything will get worse“, he warned, in a live broadcast through the platforms of the Democratic Party.

At the close of the last day of the Democratic National Convention, Biden presented several promises that will be central in the next three months of the electoral campaign: implement a plan to control the pandemic that includes more testing and stop reopening until cases and deaths decrease, protect social security and medicare, create millions of jobs to stop the economic collapse and resume alliances with the country’s traditional international partners.

“We will never be able to send our children back to school nor will we be able to live a normal life until we control this virus,” said the candidate, in open opposition to Trump’s pressure to reopen schools in September. Not only did Biden speak of change, he promised a more symbolic change, a change in the country’s political climate. “Too much hate, too much fear, too much division. Now and here, I give you my word: If you entrust me with the Presidency, I will bring out the best in us, not the worst. I will be an ally for the light, not the dark. It is time for us – we, the people – to uniteBiden urged.

In the same vein, he called for overcoming a historical and structural problem in the United States, which assumed a new level of tension with the Trump Presidency. “Will we be the generation that will finally eliminate racism from our national personality?” Asked the candidate. Biden proposed “recovering democracy” and resumed the sense of historical urgency that the former president printed Barack Obama in his speech yesterday.

Biden delivered the closing speech for the Democratic National Convention early Friday morning (local time). His words set the tone for the night: crisis, urgency, opportunity, hope and unity. “We took to the streets to ask for a change and now we must register and vote,” said Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, one of the leaders that Biden considered for the presidential formula, before electing the senator Kamala Harris. The black mayor made a reference to the recent anti-racist protests and recalled the history of struggle of John Lewis, the leader of the Afro-American civil rights movement who recently passed away.

Later Other former presidential candidates such as Senators Bernie Sanders and Cory Booker, and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg, joined in and recalled anecdotes with Biden in the primaries. “This is the most important election in the modern history of this country and Joe Biden is the most honest and decent candidate and, by God, this is what the country needs now,” Sanders said, to seal the message of unity.

The last day of this virtual convention, adjusted to the difficult times of the pandemic that the country is experiencing, had begun on Thursday night with a series of short supports from former Biden rivals in the presidential primaries – such as the senators Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, businessman Andrew Yang, former Texan Congressman Beto O’Rourke– of activists, leaders and even the former Secretary of State of the Government of George Bush, the Republican Colin Powell. Referring to the current economic collapse and massive unemployment, Yang said: “The pandemic accelerated everything. 72 percent of Americans believe that this is the worst time they have ever lived. We need leaders to get us out of this. We must give our country a chance to recover and we need your help to do it in 76 days. “

Even former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, a perennial independent who ran in the Democratic primary this year, joined in support of Biden. Between each warning testimony or urgent call to vote, the evening’s host, actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, provided her share of humor and politically incorrect comparisons and references to Trump and his administration. Senators, activists, religious leaders – all old acquaintances of Biden – and his sons and granddaughters spoke about his personality, the family tragedies he suffered with the death of his first wife and two of his children, his faith and his political leadership, especially in economic recovery after the 2008 crisis.

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