Biden: Russia and China Believe They’ll Win If We Don’t Invest on the American People

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BIDEN: "They think democracy is — not a joke. My meetings with Putin, my meetings with Xi Jinping and other leaders, they truly believe that we can’t compete in the 21st century because things are moving so fast, democracies take so much time, that they are so divided that they can’t get together in time to act. They believe — they believe they'll win, they’ll win the day and they can dictate their way forward and leave us behind. They’re betting — not a joke — they're betting for the first time, we won’t respond to this inflection point in history and we’ll fail to rise to the occasion. But you’ve heard me say it a lot of times. It’s never, ever been a good bet to bet against the American people. Never.”