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'I know these are dark times but there is always light,' says tearful Biden –  video

Joe Biden shed a tear as he took to the stage to deliver a farewell address to a Delaware crowd ahead of his inauguration on Wednesday, saying: ‘I know these are dark times, but there is always light.’ 

Speaking at the Major Joseph R ‘Beau’ Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center, named for Biden’s late son, who died of brain cancer in 2015, the president elect said things ‘can change, they can and they do’.

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