He's dressed in a black suit and a royal blue tie, with American flags in the backdrop.
After a few minor stumbles over his words, he seems to get his groove, lashing Trump over his handling of coronavirus, before painting a picture of what he'd do if elected.
"We will develop and deploy rapid tests with results available immediately, or make the medical supplies and protective equipment that our country needs," he says.
"We'll make sure our schools have the resources they need to be open, safe and effective."
"We'll put politics aside, we'll take a muzzle off our experts, so the public gets the information they need and deserve. .. And we'll have a national mandate to wear a mask, not as a burden but as a patriotic duty to protect one another."
For the past few months, Biden has had a very low key campaign, only occasionally appearing at events where he will often refuse to take questions, giving weight to Trump's narrative of "Sleepy Joe hiding in the basement."
This address is one of the first times he's started to lay out the foundations of his broader plan.
This plan, he says, includes "an immigration system that powers our economy and reflects our values with newly empowered labour unions." It also includes a healthcare system that lowers premiums, a pledge to "protect social security and Medicare", and an education system that focuses on "jobs for the 21st century."
On foreign policy, Biden says: "I'll be a president who will stand with our allies and friends and make it clear to our adversaries. The days of cosying up to dictators is over."
"Under President Biden, America will not turn a blind eye to Russian boundaries on the heads of American soldiers, or put up with foreign interference in our most sacred democratic exercise: voting."
He also invokes shades of Barack Obama's 2004 convention speech, by declaring: "America isn't just a collection of clashing interests of red states or blue states. We are so much bigger than that. We're so much better than that."
And then, on tackling the great divide of structural racism in the US, he talks about George Floyd's death being the "breaking point" and of meeting Floyd's daughter, who told him: "Daddy changed the world."
"Love is more powerful than hate. Hope is more powerful than fear, and light is more powerful than dark," he says.
"This is our moment. This is our mission. May history be able to say that the end of this chapter of American darkness began here tonight, as love and hope and light joined in the battle for the soul of the nation.
"And this is a battle that we, together, will win - I promise you."