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JOE BIDEN’S *WHEN YOU GET KNOCKED DOWN YOU GET BACK UP* SPEECH
Raleigh, North Carolina, June 28, 2024
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Let me close with this. I know I’m not a young man. State the obvious. Well.
I know.
(Cheers, chants and applause)
Folks, I don’t walk as easily as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to. But I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth. I know. I know. I know right from wrong. And I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done. And I know like millions of Americans know: when you get knocked down, you get back up.
The choice in this election is simple. Donald Trump will destroy Democracy and I will defend it.
(Cheers, chants and applause)
I know what it took to take our economy from the depths of the Pandemic to where it is today: THE STRONGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD. I know what it’ll take to bring this economy to everybody. I know what it’ll take to rally the world, to stand up against Putin and defend Freedom and not yield to him. And I know what it’ll take to keep the world safe in the years ahead.
Folks, I give you my word as a Biden, I would not be running again if I didn’t believe with all my heart and soul, I can do this job. Because quite frankly: THE STAKES ARE TOO HIGH! The stakes are too high.
(Cheers, chants and applause)
Donald Trump. Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.
Look. He doesn’t understand what I think all of you do: AMERICA IS THE FINEST AND MOST UNIQUE NATION IN THE WORLD. We’re the only nation in the world, and I mean this sincerely, it’s a fact statement and not a hyperbolic statement, it’s fact: We’re the only nation in the world build on an idea. All the other nations build on ethnicity, geography, and other religion. But we’re build on an idea: That we’re all created equal. And deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives. We’ve never fully lived up. But I’ll be damned in the year 2024, just 2 years, (cheers) just 2 years before the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, that I’ll let Donald Trump walk away from it.
(Cheers, chants and applause)
I give you my word. I give you my word as a Biden, we’re still a nation, I believe we’re still a nation that believes in honesty and decency and treating people with respect. I still believe we’re a nation that gives everyone a fair shot. And leaves nobody behind. We’re still a nation that gives hate no safe harbor. And we’re still the beacon of the world.
We can never give up what makes America AMERICA. Donald Trump is motivated by revenge and retribution. Well, revenge and retribution never built a damned thing.
You and I, we Americans, are a nation of hope, optimism, and possibility. That what always built America. That’s what will continue to build America today. The choice in this election is simple, Donald Trump will destroy our democracy. I will defend it.
Now, folks: ARE YOU WITH ME?
Donald Trump’s the first president I’ve heard of who stood up there running for president having been one for one term saying, “America is a failing nation.” Where the hell does he think he is? No, I’m serious. A failing? I don’t know a president that wouldn’t trade places with America in a heart beat. He’s dead wrong.
America’s not a losing nation. America’s WINNING! As I stand here today, I can honestly say I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future in my whole career. We just have to remember who we are. We’re the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
(Cheers, chants and applause)
There is nothing, NOTHING, beyond our capacity, NOTHING, when we act together.
(Cheers, chants USA and applause)
YOU GOT IT.
May God bless you all and may God protect our troops.
Let’s go get ’em North Carolina!
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