Former vice president Joe Biden held his first major public campaign event at a Teamsters banquet hall in Pittsburgh on Monday.
Former vice president Joe Biden holds his first major public campaign event at a Teamsters banquet hall in Pittsburgh.
The rally marked the 76-year-old Biden's first major public campaign event since his long-expected announcement last Thursday that he would run for president, becoming the 20th Democrat to join the race to unseat Trump in 2020. Despite his late arrival, the six-term former senator and two-term former vice president is widely considered a top contender in the crowded Democratic field.
"I make no apologies — I am a union man. Period," said Biden, who had received his first union endorsement earlier that morning. "There was a $2 trillion tax cut last year. Did you feel it?" Biden asked the crowd, which responded with a loud "No!" in unison.Trump, said Biden, is "the only president who's decided not to represent the whole country."
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