DNC: Security guard who blurted ‘I love you’ to Biden last year nominates him for president

WASHINGTON – A security guard at the New York Times who went viral last year for her interaction with former Vice President Joe Biden was the first person to nominate the former vice president at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night.

Jacquelyn Brittany was filmed last year as she expressed her admiration for Biden, blurting out “I love you,” as she escorted him to a meeting with the paper’s editorial board. She told Biden then he was her favorite and took a selfie with the him in the elevator.

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The guard is identified on Twitter as Jacquelyn and by The Washington Post, the first to report her role in the convention, as Jacquelyn Brittany. 

Standing in front of an elevator, Brittany gave her pitch to the DNC, saying “I take powerful people up on my elevator all the time. When they get off, they go to their important meetings. Me? I just head back to the lobby. But in the short time I spent with Joe Biden, I could tell he really saw me, that he actually cared, that my life meant something to him.”

“And I knew, that even when he went into his important meeting, he’d take my story in there with him,” Brittany continued. “We’ve been through a lot, and we have tough days ahead, but nominating someone like that to be in the White House is a good place to start.”

“That’s why I nominate my friend as the next president of the United States,” she concluded. 

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