An emotional Joe Biden has taken to the stage at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Illinois to deliver his valedictory address at the convention's opening night.A refreshed Democratic Party gathered on Monday night at the United Centre in Chicago as Vice President Kamala Harris prepares to take up the mantle as the party's presidential candidate in November.
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00:00America, I love you.
00:07It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president.
00:16I love the job, but I love my country more.
00:21And all this talk about how I'm angry at all those people who said I should step down,
00:35that's not true.
00:36I've made a lot of mistakes in my career, but I gave my best to you.
00:51For 50 years, like many of you, I've given my heart and soul to our nation.
00:58And I've been blessed a million times in return for the support of the American people.
01:06I've really been too young to be in the Senate because I wasn't 30 yet, and too old to stay
01:13as president.
01:16But I hope you know how grateful I am to all of you.
01:21Selecting Kamala was the very first decision I made when I became our nominee, and it was
01:29the best decision I made my whole career.
01:36She's tough, she's experienced, and she has enormous integrity, enormous integrity.
01:44And like many of our best presidents, she was also vice president.
01:49That's a joke.
01:55Are you ready to vote for freedom?
02:02Are you ready to vote for democracy and for America?
02:08Let me ask you, are you ready to elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, president and vice president
02:14of the United States?