Former US President Joe Biden, appearing with a fresh-looking bandage on his head, told Nebraska Democrats on Friday that his late son, Beau Biden, should have been elected commander-in-chief in 2020 instead of him.

Speaking at the Nebraska Democratic Party's Ben Nelson Gala, Biden remembered Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015, and criticised President Donald Trump . He accused him of cutting federal funding for cancer research after previously declaring it a priority.

“Folks, I know what cancer research means,” Biden said. “Cancer hits every family. It’s hit my family hard.”

“When the love of my life, my oldest son, the attorney general of the state of Delaware, who should've been the president, not me, volunteered to go to Iraq for a year, didn't have to, he came back with s

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