At the Biden event in Mason City. Not the smoothest running ship. Staff are making people who turned up 15 minutes early go back out and wait in their cars in the cold. No signs outside or other prep donepic.twitter.com/2QX0E4JXXD
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Watching D.C. ambition scale down to Mason City reality is a great pleasure. They're putting up rope lines everywhere as Bowie playspic.twitter.com/RNBNu8Rtqw
Q/A. First question is can you explain how being pragmatic is not inconsistent with being progressivepic.twitter.com/atjPIMtolU
Answer is a detailed account of passing a cancer bill. Stressing the importance of passing legislation that helps people, not ideological purity
Question about the episode in the NYT elevator leads to a long discussion of empathy, including a story about stuttering as a kid. Very much connecting with this audience
Other questions were about public education, how Biden plans to deal with attacks from Trump, and a request to have Klobuchar as VP that led to a long set piece about working with Obama
Half of Biden's presentation is wonky, the other half is sentimental family reminiscences, home truths and life lessons you couldn't imagine hearing from someone like Sanders. He even quoted Reagan!
For people not familiar with US politics, this is how it works–tiny events in Iowa and New Hampshire, stadium crowds in October. Press and staff outnumber attendeespic.twitter.com/Dcz31LjD0f
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