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Biden Campaigns for Re-Election in NAACP Speech

HeadlineJul 13, 2012

One day after Mitt Romney was booed at the NAACP convention in Houston, Vice President Joe Biden received a friendlier reception on Thursday when he delivered an address urging support for President Obama’s re-election.

Vice President Joe Biden: “He passed the Affordable Care Act, a goal strived for by presidents starting with Teddy Roosevelt. It required him, early on, to use up almost all of his political capital. He prevailed where no president had done before. He was right. He was right. He cut — it cut a hundred billion dollars, a hundred billion dollars from the federal debt over the next 10 years, providing access to affordable healthcare to 30 million Americans, eight million black Americans, who would never have had insurance.”

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