Emotional Joe Biden passes torch to Kamala Harris, ending 5 many years in elected workplace

Norman Ray

World Courant

CHICAGO — In what could also be one of many final main speeches of his decades-long political profession, President Biden handed the reins of the occasion to Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday night time, highlighting the accomplishments of their administration over the previous three and a half years.

Talking earlier than a packed United Area, website of the Democratic Nationwide Conference, the president declared, “America, I gave you one of the best,” as the gang of occasion officers, delegates, activists and supporters repeatedly gave Biden a sustained spherical of applause and chanted “thanks, Joe.”

Biden praised his vp, saying that “choosing Kamala was the very first resolution I made earlier than I grew to become our nominee, and it was one of the best resolution of my total profession.”

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Harris and Walz and their wives, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Minnesota First Woman Gwen Walz, stood onstage with the president, First Woman Jill Biden and their households after Biden’s speech in a transparent signal of occasion unity.

Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris, left, holds her hand within the air with President Joe Biden in the course of the Democratic Nationwide Conference, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photograph/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP picture/Jacquelyn Martin)

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