When Joe Biden met Brayden: How a chance meeting led to a stirring convention moment.
"He told me we were members of the same club,” Brayden shared as he spoke to the nation on Thursday night."He showed me how he marks his addresses to make them easier to say out loud. So, I did the same thing today."Biden’s staff, at his direction, asked the Harringtons to try and find time so they could join him again before the Feb. 11 primary so they could talk further. That opportunity came almost a week later at a morning stop in Gilford.
“The point I make though to these young people that I still work with is that, in fact, it's critically important for them not to judge themselves by their speech. To not let that define them,” he said. “I still occasionally, when I find myself really tired, catch myself saying something like that. It has nothing to do with your intelligence quotient, it has nothing too with your intellectual makeup.
"When he was a little boy, he couldn't string more than three words together at a time,” Biden’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens, told NBC News this week in an exclusive interview."But he was not gonna be defined by a bully. And he built a backbone of steel. And he's not gonna be defined by this bully. And he's not gonna let any little boy or girl who stutter or don't look like anybody else, or hold different values, he's not gonna let them be bullied, either.
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