Former US vice president Joe Biden, the newest Democratic presidential candidate, will hit the campaign trail in earnest on Monday with a rally before union members who have been a mainstay of his and the party’s support.
Perhaps best-known as former president Barack Obama’s two-term deputy, Biden has set himself apart from most of the sprawling Democratic field by opting for a strategy of full-on confrontation with President Donald Trump.Whether that approach appeals to voters — or if they prefer other Democrats’ focus on issues like healthcare, the environment and infrastructure — will become clear in coming months.
Pennsylvania voted for Trump in 2016 — after favoring Obama in the two previous elections — making it one of the key industrial states where a sense of social and economic decline and alienation seemed to play into Trump’s hands. The announcement of his candidacy drew rapid fire from Trump, who immediately conferred on him the dismissive title of “Sleepy Joe.”
And with many of his Democratic rivals taking left-leaning positions on issues from the environment to reparations for the descendants of slaves, Biden’s decidedly centrist and moderate approach could make him an outlier.
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