Joe Biden is a throwback, an old-fashioned Democrat who has spent a long career propelled by a simple belief that he understands working-class America and can work with Republicans to help that America, writes GeraldFSeib
The man Democrats plan tois, at heart, an old-fashioned Democrat, one who has spent a long career propelled by a simple belief that he understands working-class America and knows how to work with Republicans to help that America. At a time when the Democratic Party is exemplified by millennial activists, a rainbow coalition of diversity and a cadre of coastal elites, Joe Biden is more a throwback to his party’s blue-collar roots.
If not for the fact he doesn’t drink alcohol, in fact, he might even be called a beer-and-shot kind of guy. “He’s a Democrats’ Democrat,” says Denis McDonough, who was White House chief of staff in the Obama administration while Mr. Biden was vice president. “He comes from a hardworking, middle-class family that relied on the protections that allowed middle-class families to survive.”
He can be corny and he talks too much, which gets him into trouble. His sentences sometimes pour out in a kind of puzzling word salad. Aside from that verbal tendency, and a similarity in age, Mr. Biden appears to have nothing in common with Donald Trump, the president he hopes to unseat. Mr. Biden grew up middle class, and sometimes lower, in Scranton, Pa., while President Trump grew up in wealth in New York City. Mr. Biden went to a state university, Mr. Trump to an Ivy League college. Mr. Biden became an elected politician in his 20s, Mr. Trump at age 70.
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