Former US Vice President Joe Biden accepts the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination during a speech delivered for the largely virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention...

Former US Vice President Joe Biden accepts the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination during a speech delivered for the largely virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware Joe Biden has formally accepted the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, describing in a televised speech to a virtual convention his vision for a new United States that is facing multiple crises at once. "It is an America...

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Former US Vice President Joe Biden accepts the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination during a speech delivered for the largely virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware Joe Biden has formally accepted the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, describing in a televised speech to a virtual convention his vision for a new United States that is facing multiple crises at once. "It is an America we can rebuild together," Biden said, pledging to make control of the corona virus outbreak his first act if elected president. "We will never get our economy back on track. We will never get our kids safely back in schools. Never have our lives back until we deal with this virus," Biden said. In a week in which the US death toll from COVID-19 passed 170,000, the former vice president promised to deliver the "honest, unvarnished truth" to Americans and spoke directly to people who have lost loved ones to the virus. "I know what it is to feel that dark hole open in the middle of your chest," he said. 'The speech of his lifetime' Biden delivered his speech without the cheers of nearly 4,000 delegates who would have packed the conventional hall in Milwaukee,...