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Joe Biden to Join Hillary Clinton at Pennsylvania Rally Rally With Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania Postponed
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is finally hitting the presidential campaign trail on Friday — but it is for Hillary Clinton rather than for the White House run he contemplated for himself last year. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had been going to hit the presidential campaign trail on Friday for Hillary Clinton, but after a shooting in Dallas during protests left five police offers dead, the campaign appearance was postponed. Mrs. Clinton planned to speak in Philadelphia on Friday about the police-related deaths of two black men this week.
Heading into Pennsylvania, Mrs. Clinton could not pick a better traveling companion than Mr. Biden. A native son of Scranton, he is wildly popular with voters in Pennsylvania. The Clinton campaign obviously hopes some of his blue-collar credibility rubs off on the presumptive Democratic nominee as she seeks to secure the Democratic hold on the state. Heading into Pennsylvania, Mrs. Clinton could not have picked a better traveling companion than Mr. Biden. A native son of Scranton, he is wildly popular with voters in Pennsylvania. The Clinton campaign obviously hoped some of his blue-collar credibility rubs off on the presumptive Democratic nominee as she seeks to secure the Democratic hold on the state.
Mr. Biden, whose family moved to Delaware when he was 10, was viewed as a big asset to President Obama in the state when he joined the ticket in 2008. And while Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts can help excite progressives and millennials about Ms. Clinton in some locales, Mr. Biden has homegrown appeal in Pennsylvania.Mr. Biden, whose family moved to Delaware when he was 10, was viewed as a big asset to President Obama in the state when he joined the ticket in 2008. And while Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts can help excite progressives and millennials about Ms. Clinton in some locales, Mr. Biden has homegrown appeal in Pennsylvania.
But the cheering crowds could represent a bittersweet moment for the vice president, who spent months pondering a presidential run last year before deciding against it soon after the death of his son Beau. Mr. Biden’s efforts will now be on Mrs. Clinton’s behalf, rather than on his own, and his nearly half-century in electoral politics seems to be drawing to a close as he focuses on a different kind of campaign — one to eliminate cancer. The vice president spent months pondering a presidential run last year before deciding against it soon after the death of his son Beau. Mr. Biden’s efforts will now be on Mrs. Clinton’s behalf, rather than on his own, and his nearly half-century in electoral politics seems to be drawing to a close as he focuses on a different kind of campaign — one to eliminate cancer.