The former vice president also joked about asking Michelle Obama to be his vice president and explained the motivation for his presidential campaign during a conversation with Stephen Colbert.
Joe Biden traded jokes with Stephen Colbert while also defending his public record in his first campaign appearance onThe former vice president was in a joking mood when he sat down with the late-night host at the top of the appearance. Answering a question about how he was doing, Biden said, "Things have been going the same. There's no global warming, don't worry about that, the nation is in great shape, and the rest of the world is looking at us with envy.
When Colbert asked Biden whether he wanted to bring America back to a "pre-Trump normalcy" that nevertheless saw Trump get elected, the candidate bypassed the question by arguing that America has changed significantly since the president took office. "The thing that really bothers me the most is that we are so well-positioned to lead the world in the 21st century," Biden said, and yet Americans feel a lack of optimism about the future of the country.
"Look, the reason I came on the Jimmy Kimmel show is because I'm not, I got it," Biden joked in response, to loud applause. Colbert then backed down slightly, noting that the man at the center of the story "said that the important thing to him was that you empathized with him, that you understood his emotional state at that moment, which is something we sorely need right now."
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