奥巴马力挺拜登：我相信他有能力成为美国目前所需的总统

当地时间4月14日，奥巴马正式宣布支持美民主党总统竞选人拜登。他在推文中写到“我自豪地支持我的朋友乔伊·拜登竞选美国总统”。

在推文所附的视频里，奥巴马表示，“选择拜登做副总统是我最棒的决定之一，他成为了我的好朋友，我也相信他能够成为我们目前所需要的总统。”

随后，奥巴马陈述了拜登在其政治生涯中的一系列成绩，包括在经济大萧条时期重振美国经济、拯救美国汽车产业、保护中产阶级利益、抗击H1N1及埃博拉病毒等，并表达了“拜登能够引领美国渡过最黑暗时期”的信心。

Barack Obama endorsed Joe Biden's White House bid on Tuesday, saying his longtime vice president can unify and "heal" a nation struggling through some of its darkest moments.

The formal backing by perhaps the most popular politician in America is the latest boost for Biden's surging candidacy, and a further sign that Democratic leaders are rallying around the party flagbearer more than six months before November's election.

"Joe has the character and the experience to guide us through one of our darkest times and heal us through a long recovery," Obama said in a 12-minute video.

"I believe Joe has all the qualities we need in a president right now." "Joe helped me manage H1N1 (influenza) and prevent the Ebola epidemic from becoming the type of pandemic we're seeing now," Obama said.

在奥巴马公开支持拜登后，拜登在推特上晒出了和奥巴马击掌的合照，并配文“Let’s do this”作为回应。

此前，拜登于3月19日发推文抨击特朗普“中国病毒”的言论，劝其停止散播仇外恐惧，并喊话特朗普：“诚实点，担起你的责任，做好你的本职工作！”

相隔不到一周，他又在一段演讲中指责特朗普政府应对疫情不力并批评特朗普“反应太慢”。

“这么久以来，警示总是被忽视，政府总是说一切都在控制之中”， 拜登说， “到现在为止，我们只实施了社交隔离这一项措施，这是白宫计划和准备的失败。”

Earlier in March, former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden expressed disapproval of President Donald Trump's reference to coronavirus as "Chinese Virus" and urged him to be honest. "Take responsibility. Do your job," he said in a tweet.

Within a week, he then fired against Trump during a speech delivered from home, accusing the government for being slow to respond to the health crisis. "The president says no one saw this coming. Well, that's just not accurate," Biden said. 

"The mindset that was slow to recognize the problem in the first place ... is still too much of how the president is addressing the problem." He also blamed the president for not taking the crisis seriously in January. "Trump keeps saying he is a wartime president – well, start to act like one." 

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