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Biden Says Fixing U.S. Democracy And Middle Class Economy Are Key To Foreign Policy

In a speech Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden laid out his plan for "reclaiming American leadership" and said the world sees President Trump as "dangerously incompetent."
Former Vice President Joe Biden is laying out a foreign policy vision that speaks to domestic economic concerns on the minds of voters, while assailing President Trump's handling of international affairs.

Updated at 3:00 p.m. ET

President Trump has made undoing the Obama Administration's foreign policy record one of his top priorities. So it's no surprise that former Vice President Joe Biden — who played a key role in implementing now-abandoned agreements like the Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal, sees Trump's foreign policy as a disaster.

In a major speech delivered Thursday afternoon in New York City, Biden warned that Trump "undermines our democratic alliances while embracing dictators who appeal to his vanity. And make no mistake about it. The world sees Trump for

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