Former Vice President Joe Biden is asking for God's forgiveness for not speaking up against President Donald Trump sooner as his wife Jill reassured the audience at a posh human rights fundraising dinner the couple wants to 'pick a fight' against bullies.
'Barack and I agreed to remain silent for a while to give this administration the chance to get up and running in the first year,' Biden told the crowd at the Human Rights Campaign annual fundraising gala in Washington D.C. on Saturday night.
'God forgive me,' he added, making the sign of the cross as the audience roared with laughter and applause.
As former Vice President Joe Biden began his speech, a few people in the crowd yelled 'Run Joe!' He replied: 'Thank you.'
Jill Biden told the crowd: 'There is nothing that makes either of us more angry than a bully'
The last time Biden spoke to this dinner was three years ago - in 2015 - as he was contemplating entering the 2016 presidential contest. He ultimately held back in the wake of his son Beau's death.
But Beau featured heavily in his remarks to the crowd, as he weighs a challenge to Trump in 2020. He thanked the group for honoring Beau for his work as attorney general as Delaware.
And his wife Jill Biden, who introduced, talked of how the couple wants to take on bullies.
'There is nothing that makes either of us more angry than a bully. There's nothing that's more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn't belong,' she said.
'There is nothing that makes us want to pick a fight more than that,' she said.
Her comments came after she told the crowd how she challenged a mean boy as a child, going up to him and punching him in the nose.
But many heard her comments as a reference to Trump.
Former Vice President Biden went further in his speech, charging Trump with using the White House as a bully pulpit.
'Instead of using the full might of the executive branch to secure justice, dignity, and safety for all, the President uses the White House as a literal, literal bully pulpit, callously exerting his power over those who have little or none,' he said.
As Biden began his speech, a few people in the crowd yelled 'Run Joe!' He replied: 'Thank you.'
He also used his remarks to rally the crowd to 'demand more of our leaders.'
'What has become of us?' he said. 'Our children are listening and our silence is complicit.'
He also told the crowd of LBGT supporters that they have a fight ahead of them, point out it's those against them who have a friend in the Trump.
'Some of them are the dregs of society,' Biden said. 'They, not you, have an ally in the White House.'
'Those who try to excuse this kind of prejudice in the name of culture, I say, 'Prejudice is prejudice and humanity is humanity — it is a crime,' Biden said, urging those to oppose Trump to stay engaged. 'Our work is not yet done by any stretch of the imagination. The stakes are much too high.'
'This is deadly earnest, we are in a fight for America's soul,' he said.
Both Bidens were met with tremendous applause and goodwill from the heavily Democratic crowd.
The former vice president, 75, has said he'll decide in January - after the midterms - whether to make a run against Trump.
'I'd love to have it be Biden,' Trump told CBS News this summer.
In the meantime, Biden has vowed to help Democrats in the run up to the November election and started his efforts at a Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh alongside union workers - a group of blue-collar middle-class voters that he has long appealed to and a group that helped put Trump in the White House.
He joins former President Barack Obama in becoming more vocal of the president.
Obama launched a scathing attack on his successor's presidency last week, including a hit at the president's claiming the credit for the strong economy.
Joe Biden has said he'll decide a 2020 bid in January after the midterm elections
California Sen. Kamala Harris, who's also mentioned for a 2020 bid, attended the dinner
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, another named mentioned for 2020, was there
Obama pointed out the economy was on the upswing when he left office.
'By the time I left office, household income was near its all-time high, and the uninsured rate hit an all-time low, poverty rates were falling. I mention this just so when you hear how great the economy is doing right now, let's just remember when this recovery started,' he said.
'I'm glad it's continued, but when you hear about this economic miracle that's been going on, when the job numbers come out, monthly job numbers and suddenly Republicans are saying it's a miracle, I have to kind of remind them, actually, those job numbers are the same as they were in 2015 and 2016,' he added.
The Human Rights Campaign annual fundraising gala is one of the must-stops for Democratic politicians with higher ambitions.
Other Democratic potential challengers to Trump were spotted at the event, including New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and California Sen. Kamala Harris.
Booker showed up early to the dinner and was the first person to walk the white carpet, the New York Post reported.
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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