The Latest: Biden will tell world leaders 'America is back'

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):

3 p.m.

If he wins the presidency, one of Joe Biden’s first moves will be to call foreign leaders and tell them “America is back.”

That’s what the Democratic presidential nominee told more than two dozen donors on a virtual fundraiser Wednesday. Biden said he would “literally” be on the phone with “key leaders in Europe and Asia” working to rebuild alliances and reassuring them that “you can take our word again." He also indicated that some of those leaders have “been in contact with me the past year.”

Biden, a former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was heavily engaged in foreign diplomacy during his time as vice president and has often expressed his desire to rebuild America’s standing globally, something he said Wednesday would be “a monumental task.”

Biden added that the coronavirus pandemic “only makes things more urgent” because “it’s laid bare just how critical global cooperation is.” He said he’d “mobilize the world to fight the defining threats of our time,” including nuclear proliferation, terrorism, the climate crisis, mass migration and “the disruptive impacts of new technologies.” Biden also pledged to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization.

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