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, which was in and of itself notable for happening at all, since the president doesn’t sit down with reporters that often.
I made a commitment and I think I can say that I’ve never broken, if I make a commitment. I wasn’t going to run again, this time. I mean for real. I was not going to run. I just lost my son, I was teaching at Penn, I liked it, until all those guys came, come out of the woods ...BIDEN: ... the Charlottesville folks and this other guy said “good people on both sides” when an innocent woman was killed, etc. And, I made a decision.
Finally, he acknowledged that the fallout from the death, job losses and disruptions to normal life caused by Covid-19 had damaged the national psyche:
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