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At DNC, Vice President Joe Biden echoes Boston speech: ‘We own the finish line’

Vice President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention. Matt Rourke / AP

Vice President Joe Biden’s speech at the Democratic National Convention pulled a familiar line from one he gave in Boston a couple years ago.

“We are America, second to none,” he said Wednesday night. “And we own the finish line.”

Two years ago, Biden came to Boston to honor victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing on the one year anniversary of the attack.

“We are Boston,” he said while speaking during the tribute. “We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.”

Watch part of Biden’s Boston speech below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgn2TpshyqI

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