Joe Biden on Tuesday asked Americans to appeal to their “better angels” in a speech he framed as a direct continuation of the legacy of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
The Democratic presidential nominee invoked Lincoln multiple times on the same ground where the 16th president stood more than 150 years ago during the Civil War. He also drew on former President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Black civil rights icons Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass in his remarks.
“Today, once again, we are a house divided,” Biden said, echoing one of Lincoln’s most famous phrases. “But that, my friends, can no longer be. We’re facing too many crises. We have too much work to do. We have too bright a future to have it shipwrecked on the shoals of anger and hate and division.”
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