Biden launches Iowa trip with focus on Trump, rural America
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA -- Joe Biden launched an eight-day bus tour of Iowa on Saturday projecting confidence, ignoring his many Democratic presidential competitors and pledging that he will unseat President Donald Trump in 2020.
The former vice president pledged first to win the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses, despite recent polls suggesting his standing there has slipped in recent months.
I promise you, I promise you, Biden told a few hundred supporters outside his Council Bluff campaign office, were going to win this race, and were going to beat Donald Trump, and were going to change America.
Behind the optimism, Biden aides acknowledge he must sharpen his message and bolster his voter outreach operation ahead of the caucuses that start Democrats 2020 voting. But his advisers also insist he has wide support and remains well-positioned to recover any lost ground.
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