Biden just took the stage in Ankeny, Iowapic.twitter.com/LIR7fwj2oR
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Two of his big Iowa endorsers — Attorney General Tom Miller and Rep. Cindy Axne — introduced him and really hammered the electability and bipartisanship arguments. Clear themes as Sanders rises in the polls.
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Biden starts with the requisite flattering of Iowans: he knows people around the country wonder why Iowa gets so much power, and he tells them it's because "y'all take it really seriously. You realize your responsibility extends beyond just what Iowa wants."
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Biden: "Can you think of any time when a sitting president has spent over $12-14 million so far & risked being impeached by getting a foreign leader to say something he wouldn’t say about me—not to deal with his opponent but to PICK his opponent? I wonder why he's afraid of me."
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After the event, I spoke with a Missouri voter who drove up from St. Louis to see Biden. She showed me a photo of the two of them in the 1970s when she visited Congress.pic.twitter.com/w5jgYN2MGS
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He spoke with her for 15 minutes, she said. Then he signed the back of the photo.pic.twitter.com/65V6DyzIg3
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"His warmth, his passion, his sincerity," she said when I asked what drew her to him. "He's exactly now as he was then."
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