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| - | + | President choked up Tuesday in Buffalo when he talked about one of the Tops supermarket shooting victims, who was killed while shopping for a birthday cake for his young son. <br>'Andre Mackneil, 53, worked at a restaurant.<br>Went to buy his three-year-old son a birthday cake,' Biden said pausing, overcome by emotion. 'His son's celebrating a birthday asking, "Where's daddy?"' <br>Biden spent the entire top of his speech recognizing the 10 people killed in the racially motivated attack. <br>'Jill and I have come to stand with you,' Biden said.<br><br>'And to the families we've come to grieve with you.' <br>'It's not the same, but we know a little bit what it's like to lose a piece of your soul. To lose a son, a daughter, a husband, a wife, a mother, a father,' Biden said, a reference to his son Beau, but also his first wife and baby daughter. <br>'You feel like there's a black hole in your chest.<br><br>You're being sucked into it. And you're suffocating. Unable to breath. That's what it felt like at least to us,' he continued. And I'm some version it feels that way to you. The anger, the pain, the depth of the loss that's so profound.'<br> President Joe Biden choked up Tuesday in Buffalo when he talked about one of the Tops supermarket shooting victims, who was killed while shopping for a birthday cake for his young son<br> President Joe Biden choked up when he talked about 53-year-old Andre Mackneil, who was shopping for a birthday cake for his young son<br>He assured family members that it does get better. <br>Biden said that the thought of that lost loved one 'is going to bring a smile to your lip before it brings a tear to your eye.' <br>'It takes awhile for that to happen,' he added.<br><br>'It might take more than a season. 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