President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks at memorial for victims of Covid-19

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Before departing Delaware for his inauguration in Washington, President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday delivered an emotional paean to his longtime home and his late son Beau Biden.

The elder Biden, who is set to take office Wednesday, choked up at the top of his brief remarks at Delaware National Guard headquarters in New Castle, which was named after Beau in 2016 following his death a year earlier at age 46.

“It’s kind of emotional for me,” Biden said, wiping tears from his eyes before praising Delaware as “the state that loves our children and our grandchildren, and loved our Beau, and he so loved you right back.”

“It’s deeply personal that our next journey to Washington starts here, a place that defines the very best of who we are as Americans,” Biden said.

“I know these are dark times, but there’s always light. That’s what makes this state so special. That’s what it taught me,” Biden said.

Biden, since defeating President Donald Trump’s bid for reelection, had largely been based near Wilmington, where his transition team was headquartered.

From that location, Biden and his team have laid out a series of sweeping policy goals mainly aimed at defeating the coronavirus and restoring the health of an economy damaged by the pandemic.

Biden is scheduled to deliver additional remarks later Tuesday at the Lincoln Memorial in a ceremony honoring the victims of Covid, which has killed at least 400,000 people in the U.S.

The pandemic, and the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump, have prompted officials to make drastic changes to the inauguration ceremony, which traditionally draws thousands of spectators to the National Mall. This time, swaths of the National Mall have been closed to the public and roughly 25,000 National Guard members have been deployed to D.C.

Toward the end of his remarks in New Castle, Biden again appeared overcome by his emotions.

“James Joyce is said to have told a friend, that when it comes his time to pass, when he dies, he said, ‘Dublin will be written on my heart.’ Well — excuse the emotion,” Biden said, his voice cracking.

After a pause, Biden said: “When I die, Delaware will be written on my heart. The hearts of all the Bidens. We love you all. You’ve been there for us in the good and the bad. You never walked away.”

“I am even more proud to be standing here, doing this from the Major Beau Biden facility,” Biden added.

“Ladies and gentlemen, I only have one regret: that he’s not here, because we should be introducing him as president.”

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Good luck, really good luck in your political journey in this new world, in this strange world ...

ADAM.
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God Bless President Joe Biden, God Bless America and its Democracy!
Finally leadership we can have hope and believe in.

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Jesus Christ saves from sin.
Romans 3: 23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Hebrews 9: 27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Isaiah 64: 6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Revelation 21: 8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Romans 5: 8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
John 3: 16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 14: 6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Romans 10: 9-10.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Jesus said John 5: 24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
1John 5: 10-13
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Ephesians 2: 8-9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Romans 8: 1
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
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For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

JesusSavesFromSin
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Now give a moment of since for everyone who has died from influenza... OH WAIT... THEY DONT CARE ABOUT LIVES, JUST NARRATIVES

MrTheguywiththemoney
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All the words you say is cheap!!no action at all
Tell us one thing you have done good for this country in your 8 years of vp?👎🏻

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So crying will show the world strength and power right? WRONG.

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Can’t wait for the seasonal flu, car accident, and heart disease memorial services.

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