Joe Biden delivered an incredible keynote address at a prominent annual progressive rally on Friday, pleading with the left wing of the Democratic Party to back him in this fall’s election to defeat President Donald Trump.
Speaking with Netroots Nations, the top annual meeting of progressives, Biden made clear his desire for party unity in November.
“I need you badly, the country needs you,” Biden said in a carpet address after this year’s virtual meeting.
Biden’s address marked another step in his outreach to the left wing, and to the younger voters, of the Democratic Party. He did not attend the group’s annual meeting last year, not even after launching his bid from the months before 2020.
Biden praised the members of the pedestrians for ‘being’ the climate activists, ” the caregivers, ‘and’ the lawyers’ who first understood that ‘health care is a right’ – but added that their policy objectives can only be achieved if they him voice in office.
“We can do these things, but only if we defeat Donald Trump,” he said.
“Only then can we govern as the most progressive administration since (President Franklin D. Roosevelt),” he added a moment later.
Biden, whose address lasted only a few minutes, was followed by sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., A lover of the progressive movement and a finalist for being his running mate, who provided lengthy comments and participated in a question-and-answer session with group members.
However, Warren praised Biden several times during her address, saying he was “meeting deeply at the moment” and praising his selection of sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., As his choice for vice president, and makes it clear that progressives should support him in the fall.
“Joe Biden is a leader who listens, who builds coalitions,” she said. “There’s so much chance of progressive victory with Joe Biden.”
Warren also noted that Biden had embraced “the progressive vision” on several issues, including its adoption of its own proposal to support bankruptcy protection for people struggling financially – a move that made the presumptive Democratic nominee back in March progressive. voters for court.
