Joe Biden to TheView on reaching working class voters: 'We have to restore dignity to work. We have to restore dignity to the way we treat people...We treat them like they're a means to an end.'
Fresh off his much-anticipated entry into the 2020 presidential contest, former Vice President Joe Biden, opened his third campaign for the White House by joining ABC’s"The View" on Friday for the first television interview of his candidacy."It's a long road," he said."I think it's plenty of time."
And on his working relationship with Obama as his vice president, Biden said they got along because they were philosophically in the same place. Pres. Trump says 2020 Democratic field is"making me look very young, both in terms of age, and I think in terms of energy."On"The View," Biden was asked to respond to the president's comment.
Shortly after the release of his announcement video, he underscored the theme of his campaign in an initial fundraising email sent to supporters, writing,"If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. I cannot stand by and watch that happen."
But despite the potential hurdle of gaining support from the more liberal wings of the Democratic party against other progressive voices, Biden brings with him a decades-long, storied career as a fixture in American politics -- that led him to one of the highest offices in the country during the eight years he served as vice president under former President Barack Obama -- and long-standing, bipartisan appeal among working-class and Midwestern voters.
He has also recently contended with questions over his handling of the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, when Anita Hill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which Biden chaired at the time.
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