Joe Biden's speech was "very angry and bitter" towards Donald Trump, GB News US Correspondent Steven Edington has said.
The US President passed on the torch to Kamala Harris yesterday, as he officially threw his weight behind his vice-president and asked the voters to embrace her.
However, the Democrat couldn't help but have a dig at his rival Donald Trump, saying: "There is no place in America for political violence, none.”
“You can not only say you love this country when you win,” he said, referring to Trump.
Joe Biden calls on DNC delegates to welcome Kamala Harris as presidential nomineeREUTERSSpeaking on GB News this morning, Steven said: "This was meant to be Joe Biden's convention. This was meant to be his opportunity to accept the nomination for the presidency for the second time.
"But it didn't end up this way, instead he was forced onto a dead time slot after 11pm.
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"When he started speaking, on the Eastern coast, many people would have been asleep, and he was giving a very angry, bitter speech directed at Donald Trump.
"He repeated something that the Republicans have said and it is a simple lie.
"He said that Donald Trump claimed that there were good people on both sides of a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, when actually, Trump at the time said explicitly he wasn't talking about white nationalists and neo-Nazis.
"Joe Biden's speech also discussed Israel. He said that the protesters outside of the Democratic convention, the pro-Palestinian protesters, had a point that too many innocent people were being killed on both sides of the conflict.
Steven Edgington said that Biden was "very angry" at his rival
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"He was enthusiastic, obviously, about Kamala Harris. As I say, a very angry speech directed towards his former opponent, Donald Trump."
Biden's appearance at the Democrat conference, which is a key event for the political party, comes after he was pressured to quit his run for the presidential race.
The Democrats saw no path to victory so long as the 81-year-old remained on the ticket.
Minutes after Biden announced he intended to withdraw last month, Trump told CNN that he believed it would be easier to defeat Harris than it would have been to beat Biden.
Donald Trump is the Republican nomineeReutersHowever, this may prove more difficult than he thought, with a recent CBS News and YouGov poll of likely voters concluded on August 16 that Kamala Harris is polling at 49 per cent nationally compared to Donald Trump’s 47 per cent.
Harris is expected to formally accept the Democratic nomination on the final day of the convention on Thursday night before delegates, supporters and party faithful.
If elected Harris would make history as the first ever woman of the United States.
