Chicago: An emotional Joe Biden won a huge ovation as he gave a farewell speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday after Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance to thank him for being an “incredible” president.
Joe Biden, who quit the race to the White House last month, also made his farewell speech at the convention and said he has been “determined to keep America moving forward, not going back”.
In a charged and emotional farewell speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, President Joe Biden delivered a scathing critique of former President Donald Trump, labelling him a “loser” and vigorously defending his own legacy.
In what is seen as his farewell speech, Joe Biden has taken a jibe at his Donald Trump.
“There is no place in America for political violence. You cannot say you love your country only when you win,” he said while referring to the January 6 US Capitol violence in 2021. The Capitol building was attacked by a mob of supporters of then-US president Trump, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
Joe Biden said that Donald Trump “bows down” to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I never have and Kamala Harris will never do it,” he said as he continued his attack on the Republican presidential candidate.
“Unlike Trump, we will not demonise immigrants. He (Trump) says they are the poison in the blood of our country. Kamala and I are committed to strengthening legal immigration,” Biden said.
He also said that Trump continues to lie about the border and “killed the strongest bipartisan border deal in the history of the US”.
“Donald trump calls America a failing nation. He publicly says that… Think about the message he sends across the world when he says that. He is the loser. He is dead wrong,” Joe Biden said.
“On his watch, the murder rate went up. Kamala and I made largest investment in public safety. Crime has come down. Crime will go down when a prosecutor will be in the oval office not a convicted felon,” he said.
Biden was referring to one of Harris’s previous roles, and Trump becoming the first former US president to be convicted of felony crimes after a New York jury found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to an adult star who said the two had sex.
Joe Biden slammed Donald Trump, saying he talked about infra every week for four years but “never built a damn thing”.
“We were told we could not get anything done, anything passed in the Congress. Now we are building a new America,” Biden told the gathering.
