Jill Biden told Americans on Tuesday that her husband can heal a hurting nation in the same way he’s made his family “whole” after multiple tragedies.
“How do you make a broken family whole? The same way you make a nation whole,” Biden said during the second night of the Democratic convention. “With love and understanding—and with small acts of kindness.
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Biden opened her speech by noting the sad eeriness of the silent classrooms, left empty by the pandemic.
“There’s no scent of new notebooks or freshly waxed floors. The rooms are dark, as the bright young faces that should fill them are now confined to boxes on a computer screen,” she said, adding later Joe Biden would bring back “laughter and possibility” to those rooms.
In an appeal to win support for her husband, who was formally nominated Tuesday, Biden said: “Yes, so, many classrooms are quiet right now. The playgrounds are still. But if you listen closely, you can hear the sparks of change in the air. Across this country, educators, parents, first responders, Americans of all walks of life are putting their shoulders back, fighting for each other. We haven’t given up, we just need leadership worthy of our nation, worthy of you.”
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He’s guided by his faith, Jill Biden said. “I know if we entrust this nation to Joe, he will do for your family what he did for ours: Bring us together and make us whole, carry us forward in our time of need.”
The LA Times did not clarify just what it is that Jill Biden, a career educator, hears when she hears sparks.
