前副总统展示了可能主导2020年总统竞选最后几个月的在线竞选策略乔·拜登和他的前老板，前总统巴拉克·奥巴马合作进行一次社会距离的谈话，讨论正在进行的COVID-19大流行，他们认为需要采取的措施来纠正美国经济，以及乔治·弗洛伊德去世后在全国范围内推动种族公正。
这场面对面的讨论于上周在华盛顿特区的奥巴马基金会办公室拍摄，当奥巴马和拜登到达谈话现场时，他们都戴着黑色面具，讨论他们对总统的怀疑唐纳德·特朗普s处理冠状病毒。
“你能想象当你还是总统时站起来说，‘这不是我的责任’吗?“我不负责，”字面意思。”拜登说。
当看到他从车里出来的照片时，奥巴马说:“这些话不是我们在任时说出来的。”
拜登说:“不，我不理解他不能理解人们正在经历什么。”“他不能以任何方式。”
奥巴马总统没有提及他的名字，而是将目标对准了他的继任者对当前冠状病毒大流行的处理，同时表示他乐观地认为，如果当选，他的前副总统可能会帮助这个国家恢复。
“我有信心你会真正听取专家的意见。奥巴马对拜登说:“你要注意科学，你不会放弃试图真正降低疾病和传染率的努力。”
两人还讨论了他们政府的标志性立法——平价医疗法案(ACA)，哀叹总统试图在冠状病毒大流行期间废除该法律，并为他们的工作辩护，称其为美国医疗保险的起点。
“这就像一个入门的房子。这是你得到的第一栋房子，这不是过程的结束，这是过程的开始。”
“还记得我以前说过的话吗?这就像社会保障制度第一次通过时一样，”拜登补充说，并指出该计划随着时间的推移而不断扩大。
这些照片是两人在2020年竞选期间第一次面对面出现，是在奥巴马4月份正式支持拜登几个月后。
两人还讨论了当前的抗议活动、争取种族平等的努力以及黑人生命问题运动，两人都认为这主要是因为年轻一代不再愿意接受现状。
“我们所看到的是全国各行各业、各种族、各种信仰的人们的非凡动员，他们说我们已经过了采取行动的时候了，我们明白我们不可能在一天之内解决所有问题。但我们会认真对待这个问题，我们现在就要开始，”奥巴马说。他指出，他的女儿和拜登的孙女们都参与了最近推动变革的行动。
“政策很重要，法律很重要，预算也很重要，但你知道重要的是你在传达什么样的价值观?”奥巴马补充道，他表示相信拜登的议程将解决系统性种族主义的所有根源，而不仅仅是那些反映在美国公民政策中的根源。
新城堡:2020年7月21日，特拉华州新城堡，在科尔威克中心的殖民早期教育项目的竞选活动中，民主党总统候选人前副总统乔·拜登谈到经济复苏。活动结束时，拜登没有回答记者的任何问题。
正如拜登在竞选总统的整个过程中所做的那样，他谴责特朗普总统是一位对解决种族不平等问题不感兴趣的领导人，他选择分化美国人以提高自己的政治地位。
“这个家伙已经产生了一种感觉，人们正在意识到这一点。从他走下自动扶梯的那一刻起，他就故意把人们分开。拜登在谈到他的共和党对手时说:“我想人们现在会说，‘我不想让我的孩子那样长大’。”
奥巴马一直称赞拜登是一位“有效”的副总统，能够理解美国家庭面临的困境。
“如果你能和一个家庭坐下来，看看你自己的家庭，看看你所经历的挣扎，父母经历的，或者你的孩子正在经历的。如果你能把这些挣扎和别人的挣扎联系起来，那么你就要为之努力。这也是你进入公共服务的动力所在。”
这位前总统承诺支持拜登的候选资格，并补充道，他期待着帮助这个与他共事了八年的人。
“我期待着与您合作，尽我所能提供帮助。奥巴马对拜登说:“我对你们的承诺充满信心，你们将确保我们抓住现在的这个时机。”
拜登回答说:“谢谢，我对美国人民有信心。”
拜登竞选团队还利用视频作为一个机会来增强选民档案，要求那些对视频感兴趣的人在视频直播时发短信通知竞选活动。
仅在推特上，两人分享对话时就有近1.28亿粉丝，其中近1.21亿属于奥巴马。据拜登竞选团队的数字总监罗布·弗莱厄蒂称，周三，一段预览对话的视频在社交媒体平台上获得了超过1000万的浏览量。
在民主党初选期间，奥巴马一直处于观望状态，但他再次出现，向与他共事八年的人提供支持。最近，两人在6月下旬的一次草根筹款活动中搭档，进行了一次冗长而广泛的对话。
该活动也是拜登迄今为止最成功的筹款活动，筹集了1100多万美元。
奥巴马将代表拜登竞选团队参加下周的第二次资金筹集活动，新的视频也是以他们的聊天为特色的。
根据美国广播公司新闻获得的活动邀请，奥巴马将于下周二参加一场“虚拟对话”，为拜登的竞选活动筹集资金。拜登的竞选活动已经开始稳步缩小与特朗普连任的资金差距。
这位前总统的一名助手说，虽然奥巴马的大部分竞选活动，无论是总统级别还是投票级别，预计都将在劳动节之后进行，但与拜登的视频是一种利用两人之间的化学反应的方式，这种方式仍然是阻止COVID-19传播的最佳行为模式，COVID-19在美国许多州仍在肆虐。
“[这段]视频是我们努力把两位受人爱戴和尊敬的领导人聚集在一起讨论我们时代的紧迫问题以及乔·拜登将如何解决这些问题的一个例子。奥巴马总统的高级顾问埃里克·舒尔茨在接受美国广播公司采访时表示:“我们希望找到一种方法，既能利用两位校长之间的化学反应，又能与所有的社交疏远协议保持一致，从而为最佳实践树立榜样。”
随着拜登继续推出他的经济议程，他保留了冠状病毒，而他所主张的是总统对危机的管理，这是他为什么特朗普不值得连任的核心论点。
周二，在特拉华州新城市的一次演讲中，拜登抨击了特朗普对冠状病毒危机的处理，称他是一个对该病毒给公共卫生和美国经济带来的持续斗争漠不关心的领导人。
拜登说:“尽管特朗普吹嘘自己在经济方面的专长，但他无法解释他将如何真正帮助受打击最严重的工薪家庭。”“他抛弃了你，抛弃了这个国家。”
Biden, Obama reunite for socially distanced conversation, slam Trump’s handling of COVID-19 crisis
Showcasing the online campaigning tactics that are likely to dominate the final months of the 2020 presidential race, former Vice PresidentJoe Bidenand his old boss, former PresidentBarack Obamateamed up for a socially distant conversation to discuss the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the steps they believe need to be taken to right the American economy and the nationwide push for racial justice in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
The in-person discussion, filmed last week at the Obama Foundation’s office in Washington, D.C. features both Obama and Biden clad in black face masks as they arrive for the conversation, as the two discuss their incredulity at PresidentDonald Trump's handling ofcoronavirus.
"Can you imagine standing up when you were president and saying, ‘It's not my responsibility. I take no responsibility.' Literally. Literally," Biden said.
"Those words didn't come out of our mouths when we were in office," Obama said as the shot of him exiting his car is seen.
"No. I don't understand his inability to get a sense of what people are going through," Biden said. "He can't relate in any way."
Without mentioning him by name, President Obama took aim at his successor’s handling of the current coronavirus pandemic while expressing his optimism that his former vice president could help the country recover if elected.
“I have confidence that you're going to actually listen to the experts. And you're going to pay attention to the science, and you're not going to quit on trying to actually bend down the curve of disease and transmission rates,” Obama told Biden.
The pair also discussed their administration’s signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), lamenting the president’s attempts to do away with the law during the coronavirus pandemic, and defending their work as a starting point for health care coverage in the United States.
“It's like a starter house. It's the first house you get and it's not the end of the process it's the beginning of the process,” Obama said of the ACA.
“Remember what I used to say? It's like Social Security when it's first passed,” Biden added, noting the expansion of the program over time.
The images are the first of the two men appearing together in person during the 2020 campaign, and come months after Obama formally endorsed Biden in April.
The two men also discussed the current protests and push for racial equality and the Black Lives Matter movement, which both men agreed is largely fueled by a younger generation no longer willing to accept the status quo.
“What we have seen is this extraordinary mobilization across the country of people of every walk of life, every race, every creed who say we're past time to do something about this we understand we're not going to fix it all in one day. But we're going to take this seriously and we're going to start now,” Obama said, noting that both his daughters and Biden’s granddaughters have participated in the recent push for change.
“Policy is important, laws are important, budgets are important, but you know what's important also is what kind of values are you communicating?” Obama added, expressing his confidence that Biden’s agenda will address all of the root causes of systemic racism, not just those reflected in the way America polices its citizens.
Biden, as he has throughout the entirety of his presidential bid, decried President Trump as a leader disinterested in addressing racial inequality, and who instead chooses to divide Americans to benefit his political standing.
“This guy has generated a sense out there that people are waking up to it. He ran by deliberately dividing people from the moment he came down that escalator. And I think people are now going, ‘I don't want my kid growing up that way,’” Biden said of his Republican rival.
Obama consistently praised Biden as an “effective” vice president that is able to relate to the struggles facing American families.
“If you can sit down with a family, and see your own family and the struggles that you've gone through, parents went through or your kids are going through. If you can connect those struggles to somebody else's struggles, then you're going to work hard for it. And that's always what's motivated you to get into public service,” Obama told Biden.
The former president pledged to support Biden’s candidacy and added that he looks forward to helping out the man he worked so closely with for eight years.
“I'm looking forward to working with you to do whatever I can to help. And I have confidence in your commitment to making sure that we seize this moment that we have right now,” Obama told Biden.
“Thank you, and I have faith in the American people,” Biden responded.
The Biden campaignalso used the video as a chance to beef up voter files, asking those interested in the video to text the campaign to be notified when the video goes live.
On Twitter alone, the two reached nearly 128 million followers when sharing the conversation, with nearly 121 million of those belonging to Obama. According to the Biden’s campaign’s Digital Director Rob Flaherty, a video previewing the conversation received more than 10 million views across social media platforms Wednesday.
While Obama remained on the sidelines during the Democratic primary race, he has reemerged to offer his support to the man who served alongside him for eight years. Most recently, the two paired up for a grassroots fundraiser in late June that featured a lengthy and wide-ranging conversation.
The event was also Biden’s most successful money event to date, raising more than $11 million.
The new video featuring their chat also comes as Obama is set to participate in his second fundraiser on behalf of the Biden campaign next week.
According to an invitation to the event, obtained by ABC News, Obama will participate in a “virtual conversation” next Tuesday to raise money for Biden’s campaign, which has begun to steadily close the money gap with Trump’s reelection juggernaut.
An aide to the former president said that while the bulk of Obama’s campaigning, both on the presidential level and down the ballot, is expected to happen after Labor Day, the video with Biden was a way to take advantage of the chemistry between the two men in a way that still modeled best behaviors to stop the spread of COVID-19, which continues to rage in many state across the country.
“[The] video is an example of our effort to bring together two beloved and respected leaders to discuss the pressing issues of our time and how Joe Biden will tackle them. We wanted to find a way to tap into the chemistry between the two principals but consistent with all social distancing protocols in order to model best practices,” Eric Schultz, a senior advisor to President Obama, told ABC News.
As Biden continues to roll out his economic agenda, he has kept the coronavirus, and what he argues is the president’s management of the crisis, at the heart of his argument for why Trump does not deserve a second term.
In a speech in New Castle, Delaware, on Tuesday, Biden assailed Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, casting him as a leader indifferent to the ongoing struggles the virus presents to the public health and American economy.
“For all [Trump’s] bluster about his expertise on the economy, he's unable to explain how he'll actually help the working families hit the hardest,” Biden said. “He's quit on you and he’s quit on this country.”
