Joe Biden’s message to Donald Trump: I’m no socialist. In his first campaign events, the former vice president tries to blunt Trump’s accusation while persuading Democrats he’s far enough to the left.
Former Vice President Joe Biden campaigns at the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Tuesday. By Matt Viser Matt Viser National political reporter Email Bio Follow May 1 at 1:23 PM DUBUQUE, Iowa — For months, President Trump and his allies have tried to cast his Democratic challengers as radical socialists bent on yanking the country far further to the left than most Americans might find comfortable.
Biden’s implicit argument to Democrats, meantime, is he has embraced enough of the policies animating the party’s ascendant left to make him acceptable as the standard-bearer — but not enough to alienate the working class voters the party desperately wants to win back in 2020. “They talk about, there’s a division in the Democratic Party,” he said. “We agree on basically everything, all of us running. All 400 of us.”
Others, however, see Biden — and to some extent Sen. Bernie Sanders — as the biggest threats to Trump because of their appeal to working class voters, particularly in the upper Midwest. “Let’s get something straight. This country was not built by Wall Street, bankers, hedge fund managers,” he said, in rhetoric that mimicked Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren . But then, he added, “They’re not necessarily bad.”
Yet the passionate, even angry, appeals of Sanders, Warren and other candidates have sparked enthusiasm among Democrats that was not evident during Biden’s initial campaign foray, which began in Pittsburgh on Monday before moving through Iowa Tuesday and Wednesday. “I’m not going to get into a debate with my colleagues here,” Biden said. “There’s plenty of time on the stage. And I’m proud of my record.”
He has lingered after events, putting on full display an affectionate style some women have said in recent weeks made them uncomfortable. Voters often come up to him to give him hugs, or as he clasps their hands or shoulders, thrusting his finger into someone’s chest to emphasize a point.
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