WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama will stress Democrat Joe Biden’s competency and character in a Monday night convention speech that will draw sharp contrasts…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama will stress Democrat Joe Biden’s competency and character in a Monday night convention speech that will draw sharp contrasts between the Republican incumbent seeking reelection and the man who was her husband’s two-term vice president, an adviser said. “This election is very personal for her,” Valerie Jarrett, a longtime adviser to Barack and Michelle Obama, told The Associated Press. “She’s going to take this opportunity to speak about Vice President Biden in two ways: competency, which she had a chance to observe first-hand while he served as her husband’s vice president, but also his profoundly decent character.” Republican Donald Trump succeeded Democrat Obama in 2017 and promptly set out to undo many of Obama’s achievements on health care, the environment and foreign policy, among others. Trump also routinely criticizes Obama’s job performance. Biden’s sense of empathy will also be a focus of Mrs. Obama’s speech. Tragedy has followed Biden, from the death of his first wife and baby daughter after he was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1972, to the death of his son, Beau Biden, from brain cancer in 2015. Mrs. Obama, who leads an effort to help register people to vote, will also speak about the importance of voting in the Nov.
