Biden's Gettysburg speech calls for national unity

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has issued a sweeping call for national unity, using a picturesque, symbolic backdrop of bloodiest battle of American Civil War to warn that U.S. again is "in a dangerous place."

Biden argued Tuesday in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that U.S. can overcome centuries of ecomic and racial divisions, along with deep partisan rifts that have accelerated in recent years. He says some semblance of bipartisanship is necessary to defeat COVID-19 pandemic and rebuild a battered ecomy.

But he said country must "decide to cooperate" same way that partisans have decided "t to cooperate."

former vice president again deunced white supremacy and promised he'd "provide for common good" and ensure re is " place for hate in America" if he's elected.

Biden didn't mention President Donald Trump and instead invoked Abraham Lincoln and called for Americans to listen to better angels that 16th president spoke of during Civil War.

Americans "can't undo what has been done," Biden said, but nation "can do so much better."

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