Analysis | What we learned about Biden 2020
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Joe Biden's first rally in Iowa, on his third try for the Democratic nomination, was the biggest he'd ever had as a solo candidate. Around 500 people gathered in basement of this city's Veterans Memorial building — busy for a weekday, yet about half as many as had come to see him rally for the state's Democratic ticket on a Tuesday last October.
“A lot of folks are worried that the American Dream is literally slipping from their grasp,” Biden said in Cedar Rapids. “That bargain, that drove the most successful economic engine in the world, that bargain is pretty simple. If you contribute to the welfare of the outfit you work with, you got to share your benefits. If an enterprise hit hard times, everyone took the hit, from the CEO to the secretary. But folks, the only people who benefit now, because that bargain was broken, are the CEOs.
The Cedar Rapids speech ditched the Teleprompter and brought back the traditional Biden, with a good example of how he likes to close: The rest of Biden's messaging resembles what Democrats have run on for decades: populist praise for the “dignity of work” and a promise to take on special interests. Hillary Clinton ran on the same things in 2016, but where she carefully talked crowds through the agenda, Biden seasons his speech with “that's no joke” and “literally” and “folks,” a word he used 26 times in Pittsburgh.
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