By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives October 14, 2018
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“Campaigning in rural Kentucky for a Democrat running in one of the nation’s most watched House races, Mr. Biden appeared to be testing themes for a potential 2020 campaign to unseat Mr. Trump. (NYT) “He is just trashing American values the way he talks about people, the way he makes fun of people, the way he denigrates folks,” Mr. Biden said. “I got to tell you, I think there is a method to his madness because he wants you to get down in the mosh pit with him.” “[While Mr. Biden spoke about Trump, the President held a typical rally in Ohio.] “Mr. Biden is one of the few national Democrats thought to be able to connect with the white rural voters, ancestral members of the party who have abandoned it to help form the bulwark of the president’s electoral coalition.”
“In an interview after the rally, Mr. Biden did not hold back on his criticism of the president, saying that his attack on everything from federal courts to Republicans in Congress is about “amassing power.” Mr. Trump’s approach has been particularly effective among the white working class in rural America, Mr. Biden acknowledged, but Democrats need to re-engage and try to win back that vote. (NY Times) “We can’t possibly in my view win the presidency unless we can begin to reclaim those white working-class voters that used to vote for us,” he said. “Mr. Biden recognized the power of Mr. Trump’s appeal to grievance, but he said it had its limits. “His value set is much too narrow and self-serving, and I think it’s deliberately designed to appeal to the legitimate frustrations of a lot of working-class people by finding a scapegoat, the ‘other,’” Mr. Biden said. “You lost your job, your identity is being threatened because of that immigrant.” He added, “It’s an old, old method.” “But, he added, “I look out there and I just don’t know how much more grievance can be appealed to by this guy to keep a majority.”
“…I don’t buy this thing that there is this great divide with white working-class people on progressive issues vs. economic issues,” Mr. Biden said. “I haven’t found that.” “Mr. Biden appealed to the Democratic Party to not give up on winning the votes of the white working class. “The crowd in a packed Bath County High School gymnasium at one point broke into a chant of “run, Joe, run.”Joe Biden is already running. He’s been running from reality for a long, long time. Proof of that came during then President Barack Obama’s speech to address the historic passage of the health care bill back in 2010, when Biden was caught on an open mic telling him: "You did it... This is a big f---ing deal.” Meanwhile, it shouldn’t be “run, Joe, run”, but ‘Patriots, “run from Joe Biden”.
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Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years’ experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.