When Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign in spring of 2019, he laid out the stakes for the 2020 election in what was arguably one of the most inspired moments of his candidacy. «Charlottesville, Virginia, was home to the author of one of the great documents in human history,» Biden said in his video announcement, referring to the Declaration of Independence—penned by Thomas Jefferson in 1776—which declares that “all men are created equal.” But Biden noted that the same city where Jefferson made his home had more recently been overrun by Klansmen, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis in what he called a «defining moment» for the nation.   «In that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime,» Biden said, adding that we are in a «battle for the soul of this nation.» Read more