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Joe Biden: This is Joe Biden. You know, there's been a lot of talk this election about supporting presidents. I'd like to tell you where I stand.

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I've served in the Senate with four presidents, Republicans and Democrats alike. And I've supported them when I

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thought they'd been right, and I've opposed them when I thought they were wrong. For a senator's not supposed to be a rubber stamp.

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For example, I supported President Reagan's tax cut in 1981 because we needed tax relief. But I fought against his sending troops to

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Lebanon because it just didn't make any sense. And looking ahead, if Walter Mondale is elected,

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I'll opposes his plan to raise taxes, and I'll oppose any effort by President Reagan to raise taxes. What we have to do with taxes is

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make them fair, not raise them. But there's much more at stake in this election. Today, America is on the

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verge of a new greatness. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, "we can make the world anew". You know, you've made me proud to be your senator.

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And I hope you'll allow me to continue to be Delaware's man in the United States Senate. Male voice 1: Not an ordinary Democrat, not an ordinary Senator.

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Delaware's own Joe Biden. Male voice 2: Paid for by Citizens for Biden.