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Maybe Joe Biden Is Getting It More Right Than We Expected
At his first rally, the former Vice President broadly outlines how he intends to beat Trump. Trump responds.
What Biden doesn’t mention is how he intends to beat all the other Democratic candidates also vying for nomination. In fact he doesn’t mention them at all. (So maybe that’s how.)
Biden pulled a pretty decent crowd in Pittsburgh; though nowhere close to a Trump rally, and not hard for him to do, because he’s always been popular with unions, and that’s who many of the participants represented. In fact, the event was kind of semi-officially sponsored by the International Association of Fire Fighters,(which is a labor union representing fire fighters in the U.S. and Canada; they’ve already endorsed Biden).
But the big show did seem to get under Trump’s skin: the President spraying Tweets about ‘Sleepy Joe’ in sync with Biden’s rally. Mostly to insist while “Dues Sucking” union leaders may be with Biden, “the membership wants me”. Punctuating it all with a “WIN!” And he may be right about that. That pretty much certainly was the case in 2016.
Biden does seem to have an encouragingly exemplary talent for raising Trump’s hackles. When Biden launched his campaign last week, and gave his reason for…
