Barry Soper: ZB senior political correspondent on Joe Biden's speech at the Democratic National Convention

Joe Biden's reflected on his legacy - and laid a case against Donald Trump in a rousing address.

The President's speech ended the first day of the Democratic National Convention, where Kamala Harris will accept the presidential nomination.

Biden says Harris will be a President the nation can be proud of - and will put her stamp on America's future.

ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper says Biden didn't hold back in his statements condemning Donald Trump. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Barry Soper, Senior political Correspondence with US Barry.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hello, good afternoon, Heather.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
So Biden apparently, by all account ac quitted himself quite
well on that speech.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, it was as though he's almost had a makeover.
He looked great.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
He performed well even after his bedtime, well after his bedtime.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
He finished not too long ago. And it's after it's
called it to midnight there now, So.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
He is well.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
And truly he's a bed at eight, isn't he well?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
That put to bed all his critics, of course, that
said that he can't perform after nine o'clock at night.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Subject himself up, though he must have been sleeping.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
All day, because look, he looked really good. That was
the thing that I thought, for a man of his age,
he was looking fantastic. But look, he wasted few words
on Donald Trump, castigating him for the campaign he's running
and the damages it's doing to America.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Have a listen, Donald Trump calls America fairly nation. I'm saying,
but think about this, think about this, he probably, he
says to the whole world, I'm gonna say something outrageous.
I know more foreign leaders by their first names, and
know them well than anybody live, just because I'm so
damn old, and I'm not joking. Think of the message

(01:13):
he sends around the world when he talks about America
being a fairly nation. He says we're losing. He's the loser,
he's dead wrong, and crime will keep coming down when
we put a prosecutor in the Oval office instead of
a convicted felon. I ever thought I'd stand before a
crowd of Democrats and refer to a president as a

(01:35):
liar so many times now. I'm not trying to be funny.
It's sad. Who in the hell does.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
He think he is?

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Who does he think he is?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
He was fought up. I mean, the audience will just
love and they you know, they're all carrying plaque has
that we love Joe. But yes, I know you're going
to be asking this. Here was there was stumble Well,
there was one which was of course become characteristic for
this man who is in.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
His decision over turning Roby Wade. Did you heard earlier
tonight the United States Supreme Court majority wrote the following quote,
women are not without electrical without not allowed, not without electoral,
electoral or political power.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
And he was literally all although he was all night,
but he was quoting somebody, so he had to try
so hard to get the quote right and.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
I'm thank you for that.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Shared me up and measure Back to New Zealand politics,
So Hipkins was trying to get one over the Prime
ministers in a backfired.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
It sounds so low key after all that we've heard
from the United States. But yeah, he put it himself
against Chris Luckson, as he always does at question time,
and this is after a recess of course. On this
he attacked the government on frastructure, saying that since it
came to power, the construction industry says everything has been stopped.

(03:06):
Luxon wasn't having a bar of it.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Though.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
Having projects with names doesn't mean they're actually projects. So
spending six years on Auckland light rail, spending two hundred
and fifty to three hundred million dollars doesn't make it happen.
It's just a post it notes slogan, bumper sticker, that's
what that is. The same thing happened on Lake Onslough,
just another bumper sticker. So there's a difference between real
projects that improve productivity and phantom projects that just actually

(03:31):
are post it notes and oursid Prime Minister has got
any plans to sign fifty four million for take away
over the orkl and Harvard Bridge, and when it's all over,
nothing has done with it. There was a lot of
phantom projects from the previous government. We can go through
them if you'd like.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Sol Winston was having a bit helping out there and
the same thing happened to the Greens.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yes it did. It was being questioned about the traffic
light system for beneficiaries and the Greens Riccardo Mendez March
was citing research saying the news system would do little
to change behavior and would compound social and disconnectedness basically
among beneficiaries. The Social Development Minister Louise Upston she relished

(04:15):
the question.

Speaker 6 (04:16):
I did agree with the comments made on news talks
'd Be and Wellington on the August August the fifteenth
that were quote, when it comes to sanctions, I'll tell
you what, especially for the younger ones, particularly under twenties,
and for the teenagers hitting the workforce, I think those
sanctions straight out of school are a good idea. I

(04:37):
would like to thank Labour MP Greg O'Connor for his endorsement.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
How good, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
It was, it was a little backfron party is he today?

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Looks like it?

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Hey, Barry, thank you very much, appreciate it. Barry Soper,
Senior political correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
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