Biden speech

Watch key moments from Joe Biden's primetime address as he avoids hard truths in his first speech since quitting the race. This was Joe Biden's first chance to define how history will judge him.
He spoke of his accomplishments in a rare televised address from the Oval Office on Wednesday night, his first public remarks since abruptly ceasing his re-election campaign on Sunday. He mentioned his humble upbringing. He extolled the virtues of American citizens. He said the eventual fate of American majority rule government lies in their grasp.
Despite his assurances that he would always be sympathetic to Americans, he failed to answer the most pressing question of the day.
He didn't explain why he quit running for president, making him the first incumbent president to do so just a few months before the start of voting.
And the history books will be particularly interested in that.
He gave it hints. He talked around it. Be that as it may, he never handled it head on. The American people were left to decipher what was written between the lines.
Mr. Biden stated, "it's become clear to me that I need to unite my party" in recent weeks.
He then repeated the sentiment that Democrats are increasingly adopting: that it was time to "pass the torch" to a new generation.
While he stated that his extensive accomplishments were sufficient to warrant a second term, he added, "nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy – and that includes personal ambition."
Left implied was the cruel reality that he surrendered in light of the fact that it was turning out to be progressively evident that he planned to lose to Donald Trump in November. And all members of his party consider that to be a disastrous outcome.
Following in the surveys, humiliated by a hopeless discussion execution and with a developing chorale in the Leftist faction calling for him to move to one side, there was no make way to a Biden triumph.
Although the president may not have said it, his Republican predecessor, who is now a former rival for the presidency, did not have any reservations about doing so.
Donald Trump claimed at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, a few hours before the speech that Vice President Biden left because he was losing badly.

At a rally, Trump called Kamala Harris, the party's new presumptive nominee, a "radical left lunatic" who was the "ultra-liberal driving force behind every single Biden catastrophe." He then went on the attack against her.
Conservative gatherings have been flooding the wireless transmissions in important landmark states, trying to characterize Ms Harris in their terms, not hers. The Associated Press found that over the course of the following month, Trump's side is expected to spend 25 times more than their Democratic counterparts.
Ms. Harris was portrayed as complicit in concealing the president's "obvious mental decline" in one advertisement.
Mr. Biden's speech provided a primetime, nationally televised opportunity to firmly address concerns about his ability to continue carrying out his duties as president and to respond to the accusations leveled against his vice president.