By Dan Balz Dan Balz Chief correspondent covering national politics, the presidency and Congress Email Bio Follow April 25 at 12:28 PM Joe Biden joined the presidential race with a message strikingly different than that of his rivals for the Democratic nomination. In words and images reflecting a sense of national urgency, the vice president defined the election and his own candidacy almost solely as a crusade to rid the country of President Trump.
Biden described this moment and the coming election as a battle for the soul of the nation, reduced in political terms to a question of whether Trump’s presidency ends after a single term or extends to a second term. If Trump is defeated in 2020, Biden said, history may well judge these years simply as “an aberrant moment in time.” He added, “But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White house, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation.
Western Pennsylvania is at the heart of the electorate that Trump carried in 2016 and where Democrats must recoup if they hope to win in 2020. The Monday rally, symbolically, will be Biden’s way of saying to Democrats that if you want someone who can win back Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, look no farther than me. It will be his way of saying that he, better than others in the race, can rekindle enthusiasm among white working-class voters who have abandoned the party.
More recently, he was confronted by criticism from some women who found his hands-on expressions of empathy and support discomforting. Though Biden promised to do better, he later seemed to dismiss it all with a few jokes at a public event. A politician of the old school, he now runs in the era of #MeToo and will be challenged to show, as he put it when responding to the criticism, that he does “get it.
It's going to be EPIC to see Trump go in on the 1.5 BILLION dollar deal Biden's son made with China while Biden was VP in talks with China. So much to work with like the mass incarceration of blacks as the result of the 94 crime bill he helped craft. Must watch viewing.
What's the plan, besides...'I don't like trump' ?
A catastrophe waiting to happen.
He has no accomplishments to run on...
For fuck's sake, who's advising him? They should be fired IMMEDIATELY.
Lol
...well he is the only grown-up in the race...
He, and other Dems want it to be about Trump bc they have no vision and no positive platform to run on.
Not based on his goofy, inaccurate, whiney video.
He has no plan. One of the most corrupt politicians in DC.
I’d rather vote for a dog turd than Joe “sexual harassment” “creepy old man” Biden. Guy is a moron and has no business in politics. 👊🏼
Trump's a racist, blah blah.
His ass better learn how to say I apologize for the ADOS 94 RACIST crime bill he and Clinton sold us need to learn to say ADOS REPARATIONS BILL or I’m voting for realDonaldTrump Not taking half ass , rather loose the whole thing and start over
Awesome. Thx Fondling Joe you just handed the reelection of MAGA!!
Sad
Isn't it?
That contrast has to be made. The other Dem candidates would also do well to make that contrast between trump's disgracefulness and the USA's 'better self'.
BIDEN-BETO 2020 TABA take AMERICA back again 🇺🇸
It's almost like Trump's the incumbent or something.
His slogan, make America great once again, certainly is.
what's his agenda to pay off US debt made by Obama & him ?
Hillary tried that and failed in the Electoral college
Dems are all about old white guys. Too funny, what hypocrites!
And he lied in his opening bid!
Nope. It’s all about the soul of America.
What else can he and the Dems run on? Can't say they would be better creating jobs. Can't say they will give the middle class more of their tax money. Can't they will be guarding our border better. Can't say they will be tougher on crime. Orange man bad is all they have
Biden was a big fan of getting involved in Syria, which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and the refugee crisis.
Great day. Mediocre video announcement. Not hitting the campaign trail until after the weekend. $0 raised. And Michael Avenatti is going to vote for him from prison. Well done, Joe! Take a rest.
I 'm shocked. lol. Will you showing that video of him voicing plans to replace the white US population? An agenda you are fully on board with as the racists you are.
He has not one policy to stand on
Yeah, it was about Trump in 2016. Where were you, creepy Joe?
Nah. It's all about Joe
Will have to disavow this guy and his band of anti-semites:
If ever there was an antidote to the Trump poison, it's Joe Biden. He's an honest broker who also knows the value of strategic compromise. Dems would be wise to bank on Joe's experience and proven decency. Joe also knows how to street-fight. Could end up reprising as Dem veep?
A debate between Biden and Trump would be epic.
Yes for Trump, it's all about himself
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