Joe Biden's campaign is not anchored in a big policy idea like Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All. Instead, Biden's call to voters is a more visceral one, casting the 2020 race as a test of the country's character. The recent back-to-back mass killings in Texas and Ohio have, for now,
1 / 5Election 2020 Joe BidenDemocratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Des Moines Register Soapbox during a visit to the Iowa State Fair, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. BURLINGTON, Iowa — Joe Biden's campaign is not anchored in a big policy idea like Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All. He is not proposing transformative change like Elizabeth Warren.
Biden has hardly been alone among Democratic presidential candidates in assailing Trump after the latest killings. The shooting suspect in El Paso has been linked to a racist screed that echoed many of the president's own tirades about an immigrant"invasion," prompting at least two of Biden's rivals to brand Trump a"white supremacist."
Biden's advisers contend that those past policy positions will matter less to most voters, both in the Democratic primary and the general election, than their assessments of Trump's moral fitness for the job."The words of a president matter," he said in a Wednesday speech."They can appeal to the better angels of our nature. But they can also unleash the deepest, darkest forces in this nation.
Trump campaign operatives quickly circulated video of the remark, part of a 105-minute discussion with unions members, Latinos and Asian Americans, exposing Biden to heat from some progressives and the GOP. O'Rourke and Sen. Cory Booker delivered high profile remarks following the shooting this week, with Booker choosing as his venue the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where a white supremacist in 2015 killed nine black citizens as they prayed. Both candidates trail Biden and several others in the 2020 Democratic field.
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