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WASHINGTON: Joe Biden accepted the Democratic nomination for president promising to end the “darkness” of Donald Trump’s presidency with an impassioned call for unity and a return to optimism.
“The current president has cloaked America in darkness for much too long. Too much anger, too much fear, too much division,” Biden said.
“If you entrust me with the presidency, I will draw on the best of us, not the worst. I will be an ally of the light, not the darkness,” he said. “It’s time for us, for we the people, to come together.”
Speaking in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, to an online or on television audience, Biden’s acceptance speech reflected the enormity of the shutdown that has upended life across the United States in the battle against the deadly coronavirus.
Biden urged Americans to punish Trump for the chaos that has seen more than 170,000 deaths and economic calamity. Biden said he would implement a national COVID-19 plan and mandate wearing masks on the first day of his presidency.
Biden is on his third White House bid after failing to win the nomination in 1988 and 2008. Biden leads in every national opinion poll and also in the crucial swing states. Trump is fighting hard in an election of unprecedented ferocity and division.
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