He very much believes that you need to give people a window into why you're doing it, a story you can follow to explain why you're going down this road, and repetition.

Mike Donilon

The American people understand that the economy we had before the pandemic left far too many people behind, and that more and more families were finding that their grip on a middle class life -- and the security it affords -- was precarious. The American people know we can't afford to simply turn the clock back to where we were.

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Biden White very much believes that you need to give people a window into why you're doing it, a story you can follow to explain why you're going down this road, and repetition.

He has a strong sort of fundamental belief of what's at stake, and that these choices we're going to make, they're going to change a lot of people's lives in the long term -- or at least have the potential to, he thinks it's well worth the effort.

It's really kind of a two-part puzzle. The direct piece of the puzzle is that the country needs to see again that democracy can deliver tangible results in their lives, but it also is a proof point to the rest of the world that the future will be won by democracies, not by autocracies.

It really kind of came into focus as these different proposals were coming together and he was making judgments about what he would focus on, he very much had a focus on delivering things that would have a real impact and that people could understand would have a real impact on their lives.

There's been forces at work in the country and they are what are anchoring this election, and it begins with President Donald Trump and the perceptions of President Donald Trump, one of the most remarkable things about this campaign so far is that the Donald Trump campaign themselves would admit they could not win a referendum on Donald Trump presidency here in this country today.

I understand that the president and his allies will undertake every effort to go after the vice president and try to change the subject and distract them, this isn't new. It's not like Donald Trump started attacking the vice president today or yesterday, Donald Trump's been at Donald Trump all year long.

The country knows what's at stake. We have a president who doesn't want to talk about the central issue in this campaign right now, he doesn't want to talk about the coronavirus and his reaction to it. He's desperate to try to get any form of distraction from it.