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Biden reaches out to other working joes on the Ohio campaign trail [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Biden reaches out to other working joes on the Ohio campaign trai
The vice-president drew on his humble origins to trumpet the
administration’s new overtime rules and pitch for a Democratic
senatorial candidate
Sabrina Siddiqui in Columbus, Ohio
Thursday 19 May 2016 14.27 BST
It didn’t take long for Joe Biden to get personal, transforming his voice into its signature hushed tone, while sharing with the crowd before him what it meant to be of the working class.
The vice-president’s humble beginnings are well-known: his father, forced to leave his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, after he was unable to find work during the 1950s, eventually settled in Wilmington, Delaware, where Biden senior prospered as a car salesman and provided his children with a middle-class upbringing.
But Biden, while addressing employees and workers’ advocates at the Ohio headquarters of a local ice cream business, retold the story with the sort of unbridled emotion that has helped to solidify his appeal among blue-collar voters. And with the 2016 election year fully under way, he offered both a glimpse of Biden the surrogate and the candidate that could have been.
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But despite the rollout of a policy change long in the making, the optics of the trip were difficult to ignore. Accompanied by the labor secretary, Tom Perez, and the Ohio senator Sherrod Brown, both potential contenders for the Democratic vice-presidential slot, Biden’s visit to the must-win battleground state came as both parties turn toward the general election.
Even so, all three dismissed the political chatter as a fixation of the media’s and looked instead to emphasize the official purpose of the day trip: a shift of great significance in America’s overtime pay structure.
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The vice-president drew on his humble origins to trumpet the
administration’s new overtime rules and pitch for a Democratic
senatorial candidate
Sabrina Siddiqui in Columbus, Ohio
Thursday 19 May 2016 14.27 BST
It didn’t take long for Joe Biden to get personal, transforming his voice into its signature hushed tone, while sharing with the crowd before him what it meant to be of the working class.
The vice-president’s humble beginnings are well-known: his father, forced to leave his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, after he was unable to find work during the 1950s, eventually settled in Wilmington, Delaware, where Biden senior prospered as a car salesman and provided his children with a middle-class upbringing.
But Biden, while addressing employees and workers’ advocates at the Ohio headquarters of a local ice cream business, retold the story with the sort of unbridled emotion that has helped to solidify his appeal among blue-collar voters. And with the 2016 election year fully under way, he offered both a glimpse of Biden the surrogate and the candidate that could have been.
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But despite the rollout of a policy change long in the making, the optics of the trip were difficult to ignore. Accompanied by the labor secretary, Tom Perez, and the Ohio senator Sherrod Brown, both potential contenders for the Democratic vice-presidential slot, Biden’s visit to the must-win battleground state came as both parties turn toward the general election.
Even so, all three dismissed the political chatter as a fixation of the media’s and looked instead to emphasize the official purpose of the day trip: a shift of great significance in America’s overtime pay structure.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/19/joe-biden-ohio-overtime-pay-rule-working-class-jobs
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