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<\/a><\/p>\nSo, I\u2019m incredibly grateful for all the work that you\u2019ve done, and I would love for you to say a few words to \u2014 to the community based on your ability to deliver every single time.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 We got it done.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t get it done.\u00a0 Every major thing we tried to do, from over a trillion dollars in infrastructure to work on communities that need help to health care to \u2014 I mean, a whole range of things, and we got it done.<\/p>\n
As I said earlier, your partnership, your friendship, and your leadership has really made a big difference.\u00a0 And thank everyone at Latino \u2014 you know \u2014 excuse me, thank everyone at your organization, Voto Latino, for all you do.\u00a0 You know, you\u2019ve always had my back, and I think it\u2019s fair to say I\u2019ve always had yours.<\/p>\n
This is it.\u00a0 This is it.\u00a0 Seven days to Election Day, and the stakes couldn\u2019t be higher.\u00a0 And that\u2019s not a \u2014 that\u2019s not an exaggeration.\u00a0 The choice couldn\u2019t be clearer.<\/p>\n
Presidential historians tell us the most important thing about a president is character \u2014 does he or she have character.\u00a0 Kamala has character.\u00a0 She\u2019ll always stand up for Latinos, but not just Lati- \u2014 she\u2019ll stand up for everyone who deserves to be stood up for, and that\u2019s all Americans.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump has no character.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t give a damn about the Latino community.\u00a0 He\u2019s failed businessman.\u00a0 He\u2019s \u2014 he only cares about the billionaire friends he has and accumulating wealth for those at the top.<\/p>\n
You know, he says immigrants are \u201cpoisoning the blood\u201d of our country.\u00a0 Give me a break.\u00a0 He wants to do away with the birthright citizenship.\u00a0 Who the hell else said that in the last 100 years?<\/p>\n
And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a \u201cfloating island of garbage.\u201d\u00a0 Well, let me tell you something.\u00a0 I don\u2019t \u2014 I \u2014 I don\u2019t know the Puerto Rican that \u2014 that I know \u2014 or a Puerto Rico, where I\u2019m fr- \u2014 in my home state of Delaware, they\u2019re good, decent, honorable people.\u00a0 The only garbage I see floating out there is his\u00a0supporter\u2019s\u00a0\u2014 his\u00a0\u2014 his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it\u2019s un-American.\u00a0 It\u2019s totally contrary to everything we\u2019ve done, everything we\u2019ve been.<\/p>\n
Now, Trump has di- \u2014 tried to divide the country based on race, ethnicity, anything that does harm, to take their eye off the ball about what the terrible things he\u2019s done and will do.\u00a0 But Kamala Harris has fought for all Americans and will be a president for all of America.<\/p>\n
Look, folks, we\u2019ve gotten a lot done together, as you pointed out.\u00a0 Look, Maria Teresa, we did everything from the infrastructure bill to health care to making sure that veterans are taken care of.\u00a0 I mean, across the board, we\u2019ve done so much.\u00a0 We\u2019ve created over 16 million jobs.\u00a0 More Latinos have jobs than ever before.<\/p>\n
Look, a quarter of all \u2014 here\u2019s the way I look at it.\u00a0 A quarter of all the children in our schools today are Latino \u2014 are Latino, a quarter of them.\u00a0 How could we possibly not invest everything we have in a quarter of our population that\u2019s going to be our future?\u00a0 It\u2019s going to make a major, major, major, major piece of what this country looks like and what we think and what we believe.\u00a0 So, these are going to have to be the doctors, the teachers, the scientists, and, yes, presidents.<\/p>\n
You know, I know we\u2019ve asked a lot of each other, but I\u2019m talking to you about one more thing and asking you, as a favor, all of you listening, to vote.\u00a0 Get out early and vote.\u00a0 Do it early.<\/p>\n
You know, I \u2014 I know the long waits on Election Day are all too common, especially in Latino communities.\u00a0 You know, I cast my ballot yesterday.\u00a0 I stood in line for 40, 45 minutes with all the people in Delaware, and I cast my vote yesterday in my home state.\u00a0 I waited in line with a lot of other people.<\/p>\n
There was a woman ahead of me, an elderly woman, who was in her 90s in a wheelchair, and it was a heavy wheelchair and the person pushing it was having trouble, so I spent time with her.\u00a0 She \u2014 she\u2019s \u2014 she\u2019s over 90 years old, and she\u2019s breaking her neck to vote because she knows how important it is.<\/p>\n
Today is National Vote Early Day.\u00a0 Let me say it again.\u00a0 Today is National Vote Early Day.\u00a0 Remind folks to vote early, to return mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n
Vote for access to a good education so everyone has an opportunity.\u00a0 Vote to eliminate not \u2014 what Trump wants \u2014 he wants to eliminate the Department of Education and no early education.\u00a0 We\u2019re fighting like hell, and we\u2019re fighting like hell for early education because, you know, it increases exponentially the prospect of success for our sons and our daughters.<\/p>\n
Vote to give our daughters the same opportunities we give our sons, instead of taking away their rights.<\/p>\n
Vote to make sure we maintain a significant health care that would provide for our parents and our families and basic health care for all Americans.\u00a0 Trump is trying like hell to get rid of it.\u00a0 More people have health care now than ever before.\u00a0 He says he\u2019s going to \u2014 wants to get rid of it.<\/p>\n
Vote to continue the progress we made on job growth \u2014 the growth in jobs for everyone, including Latinos \u2014 a significant job growth.<\/p>\n
Vote for comprehensive imm- \u2014 immigration reform instead of mass deportation.\u00a0 What\u2019s he talkin- \u2014 think about it.<\/p>\n
You know, I travel the world because of my role as president and my knowledge of foreign policy.\u00a0 I get inquiries from other heads of state, \u201cDoes Trump really mean it?\u00a0 Are you really going to send out the police to gather up thousands and millions of people and deport them?\u201d\u00a0 What the hell is going on here?\u00a0 Vote for comprehensive immigration reform instead of mass deportation.<\/p>\n
In short, vote to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.\u00a0 He\u2019s a true danger to not just Latinos but to all people, particularly those who are in a minority in this country.<\/p>\n
You know, we have to vote to elect Kamala as president, Tim Walz as vice president.\u00a0 It\u2019s (inaudible) \u2014 it\u2019s never been more important.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve known each other a long time, Maria Teresa \u2014 a long time.\u00a0 And I want to tell you something I can say without equivocation.\u00a0 Our democracy is at stake.\u00a0 And to translate that into pure English \u2014 and that\u2019s wh- \u2014 I should be able to speak Spanish, but I can\u2019t.\u00a0 We should be able to talk about what this means.<\/p>\n
He wants to fundamentally change the way our Constitution works.\u00a0 He wants to take away people\u2019s rights.\u00a0 He wants to concentrate power in the hands of a very few \u2014 people like him.<\/p>\n
So, go to IWillVote.com and make your plan to vote early.\u00a0 Make it today, because voting early (inaudible) now basically through election.\u00a0 Make a plan to vote, please, please, please.\u00a0 Your vote is critical.\u00a0 A Latino vote is critical.\u00a0 Let\u2019s make it heard.<\/p>\n
I want them to remember who you are and who we are.\u00a0 We\u2019re the United States of America.\u00a0 And there\u2019s nothing, nothing at all beyond our capacity when we do it together.<\/p>\n
So, God bless you all.\u00a0 And God bless you, Maria Teresa, for all you\u2019ve been doing.\u00a0 We have more to do, but we got to get it done.<\/p>\n
This el- \u2014 this election is the most consequential election we\u2019ve ever voted in, no matter how old or how young you are \u2014 this election.<\/p>\n
God bless you all.\u00a0 And God protect our troops.<\/p>\n
MS. TERESA:\u00a0 Thank you so much, President Biden.\u00a0 And I have to tell you, what you really \u2014 what you are saying is a clarion call.\u00a0 It\u2019s a multicultural democracy, and it\u2019s us, as Americans first, that will save this country and our democracy.\u00a0 And I\u2019m so grateful for the time \u2014<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 The reason why we\u2019re strong.<\/p>\n
MS. TERESA:\u00a0 \u2014 you\u2019ve spent with us.\u00a0 (Inaudible.)<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 We\u2019re the most diverse country, and that\u2019s why we\u2019re strong.\u00a0 That is our strength.<\/p>\n
MS. TERESA:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 (Laughs.)<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 (Inaudible) our weakness.\u00a0 It\u2019s our strength.<\/p>\n
MS. TERESA:\u00a0 No, I call it our superpower \u2014 our superpower.\u00a0 And I always say, like, you don\u2019t have to take my word for it.\u00a0 The reason that you have disinformation around race is because the Russians and the Chinese recognize that racism is our Achilles heel, but it \u2014 they also recognize that it\u2019s our multiculturalism that is our superpower and our strength.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 We bring all the best of every culture together.\u00a0 We really do.\u00a0 It\u2019s not hyperbole.\u00a0 That\u2019s a fact.<\/p>\n
MS. TERESA:\u00a0 It\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Sometimes I think our folks (inaudible) don\u2019t realize it, but it\u2019s truly a fact.\u00a0 Anyway.<\/p>\n
God love you for what you\u2019re doing.\u00a0 Keep it going, kid.<\/p>\n
MS. TERESA:\u00a0 I\u2019m super grateful.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Keep it going.<\/p>\n
MS. TERESA:\u00a0 Yeah, we\u2019re not done yet.\u00a0 We\u2019re just getting started.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 We\u2019re not even close to done.<\/p>\n
MS. TERESA:\u00a0 (Inaudible.)\u00a0 (Laughs.)<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 And I may be \u2014 I may be leaving office on January 20th, but I\u2019m not leaving.<\/p>\n
MS. TERESA:\u00a0 I \u2014 I \u2014<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 I\u2019m not leaving.<\/p>\n
MS. TERESA:\u00a0 You promise?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 I\u2019m leaving office, but I\u2019m not leaving this fight.<\/p>\n
MS. TERESA:\u00a0 (Laughs.)<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 God love you.\u00a0 Thank you so much.<\/p>\n
MS. TERESA:\u00a0 I\u2019m going to remind you of that.\u00a0 Much love.\u00a0 Say hello to Jill.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Well, you don\u2019t (inaudible) \u2014 I\u2019m going to ask for your help and let me join you.<\/p>\n
MS. TERESA:\u00a0 I will always be there, President.
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