After town hall wraps up, Biden sticks around to take questions from audience

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After town hall wraps up, Biden sticks around to take questions from audience

Show Caption Hide Caption Biden town hall: Biden asked how he would support young Black voters Former Vice President Joe Biden was questioned by a young Black voter at his ABC town hall about what he can do differently than former presidents.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's town hall was over, but he wasn't done speaking with voters.

The former vice president stayed behind after his 90-minute ABC News town hall Thursday night to answer additional questions from voters who sat in the audience. Nearly 30 minutes after the town hall finished, the Biden was seen on ABC's livestream continuing to speak to the audience at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

Biden, who was seated and not wearing a mask during the town hall, put on his mask and walked around the stage while addressing questions that some of the audience members still had. Members of the audience also put on their masks after the town hall finished and maintained social distance while seated.

One audience member pulled out a note card with his question written on it, which the former vice president answered. Biden answered questions on sending in the National Guard to stop protests, as well as the Muslim travel ban, according to ABC News reporter Johnny Verhovek.

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President Donald Trump, who also had a town hall Thursday evening in Miami, stuck around afterwards to take photos with some of the members of the audience.

Several of the audience members at Biden's town hall were still undecided about voting for the former vice president or even voting at all.

During the town hall, Biden hinted that he was willing to take some extra time to talk to voters.

Cedric, a Black progressive voter from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, asked Biden during the event how he is going to turn out young Black voters under 30.

Biden spoke about giving more funding to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), as well as to Title 1 schools. The former vice president also highlighted investing into Black entrepreneurs.

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During his answer, moderator George Stephanopoulos interjected asking the voter whether he had heard enough to convince him to vote for the former vice president.

“I think so,” the voter replied.

“There's a lot more if you want to hang out afterwards, I'll tell you more.” Biden told the young voter.

Osiris32 on October 16th, 2020 at 04:52 UTC »

Years ago, when Biden was VP and they were still in their first term, Biden held and event here in Portland. I'm a stage hand, and the event was in one of my arenas, so I got to do the setup and tear down for it.

The tear down was scheduled for 8pm. We got there at like 7:45, had a smoke, milled about, and then went in to start tearing things down. Expect we couldn't. Secret Service wouldn't allow us in the massive hall, because Biden was still talking to people. So we sat. And we waited. And we waited. And we waited. And getting close to 10pm, the doors opened into the hall and Biden came out surrounded by Secret Service types.

But then he saw us, and he stopped. And he started asking us questions. Who we were, why we were here. We explained that we would be tearing down his event, and he instantly started to thank us, personally, for working his event. No one was forgotten, and everyone got a minute or two of direct interaction. Even those who froze up because they were meeting the Vice President of the United States.

And that's why I like the guy.

LuvNMuny on October 16th, 2020 at 04:11 UTC »

Joe Biden is a good person. He's made mistakes, but he's never stopped trying to make the world a little better.

wtfwasdat on October 16th, 2020 at 04:10 UTC »

Trump couldn't stick around. He had to go figure out how the fuck he's gonna come up with $421,000,000 to payback whoever the fuck he owes it to