L.A. Times: As Democrats ponder their future, Joe Biden makes a plea for a focus on the middle class
Over a career in elected public office lasting more than 46 years, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has seen campaigns from the rudimentary, family-run effort that first launched him unexpectedly to the U.S. Senate as a 29-year-old to the sophisticated, data-driven juggernaut that helped elect him and Barack Obama twice to the nation’s highest offices.
But rarely has he trusted anything as much as his own gut instinct, attuned to the middle- and working-class sensibilities of his former neighbors in towns like Scranton, Pa., and Claymont, Del.
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Update: BIDEN: As I watched a Trump rally in October, I said, 'Son of a gun — we may lose this election' (Business Insider).
WNU Editor: You can tell that Vice President Biden now wishes he ran. On a side note .... the bitterness of this campaign is still resonating .... Bitter Clintons consider staying away from Trump inauguration and George W. Bush hasn't yet RSVPed – but Jimmy Carter WILL attend (Daily Mail).