With less than a month to go until Iowans head to caucus on February 3rd, former Vice Pres. Joe Biden is betting big on foreign policy.
that first hit the airwaves in November with a new focus on Iran, beginning with news reports following the U.S. airstrikes that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
While the idea of restoring America’s standing on the world stage has been a core pillar of Biden’s campaign since, he’s begun ramping up his forceful rebuke of President Trump’s foreign policy and decision-making on the trail, increasing referencing Iran as the situation developed while on a bus tour across Iowa this past weekend, and delivering a forceful statement on Trump’s decision to take out Soleimani in New York City Tuesday afternoon.
“It is not a spotless record, and so you know, someone like Sanders is going to use his turning to foreign policy as a way to question his leadership, and this claim that not only is he most electable but he would just be the 'bestest' president so it will be something that is not totally easy for Biden to use,” Zelizer told ABC News.
Biden’s team argues that rather than engaging with his competitors, they are keeping a tight focus on message of unity, which can often be viewed as a message promising to calm things down and reassuring voters of the stability Biden can provide, while also being the best bet to take on Trump. During a town hall in Des Moines on his latest bus tour in Iowa, Biden was asked about his mixed record on foreign policy and if voters can trust his judgement now, given his vote on the Iraq war and his advice to not move ahead on the raid to kill Osama Bin Laden.
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