Pledging to heal and unite the nation, Joe Biden accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday and heavily criticized President Trump, although he never mentioned him by name.
The speech capped a decades-long effort to win his party’s nomination following failed efforts in 1988 and 2008, although the latter attempt ended with him chosen by Barack Obama as the future president’s vice-presidential pick. On Thursday, it was Biden’s turn to accept a spot at the top of the Democratic ticket as he promised to help the country move forward on “four historic crises” – the pandemic, the economic crisis, the calls for racial justice and the “accelerating threats of climate change.”
Biden gave his speech to an empty Chase Center in Wilmington, Del.
“All elections are important, but we know in our bones this one is more consequential. As many have said, America’s at an inflection point – a time of real peril, but also of extraordinary possibilities,” Biden said. “We can choose a path of becoming angrier, less hopeful, more divided, a path of shadow and suspicion, or we can choose a different path and together take this chance to heal, to reform, to unite, a path of hope and light.
“This is a life-changing election,” Biden said. “This will determine what America is going to look like for a long, long time. Character is on the ballot, compassion is on the…
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