'America, America, I gave my best to you,' Biden said.
"America, America, I gave my best to you," Biden said.President Joe Biden speaks onstage during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 19, 2024 in Chicago.President Joe Biden may not have given the acceptance speech he wanted to make at the Democratic National Convention Monday night, but his address could have served as a bookend of sorts on his own decades-long political career.
Moments later, after an introduction from his daughter, teary-eyed Biden himself walked on stage to a boisterous crowd holding placards professing their love for the president and chanting their thanks."I think history will say that Joe Biden saved America twice. The first time was removing the malignancy that was the Trump presidency and healing the nation after Jan. 6.
Biden boasts a lengthy record -- elected to the Senate at just 29 years old, then joining a historic presidential ticket as vice president in 2008, using his eight terms in office to usher through deals with a Congress he'd served in for decades. "The level of enthusiasm and respect and love for him will, I think, just be astronomical, and something that we have not seen at the Democratic Party in decades, pre-Obama, just because of the self-sacrifice," said one senior Democratic operative. "His legacy will be righting the ship in a time of remarkable turmoil and keeping us from going over the edge of authoritarianism as we were sitting on the cusp of a second untethered Trump term.
"One-term presidents aren't necessarily seen as great presidents, especially when it's followed by someone like Donald Trump. So, I think his legacy is somewhat dependent on what happens in a few months. And I do think if Harris win, it's an unabashedly positive legacy for him," said Jim Kessler, a co-founder of the center-left think tank Third Way.
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