Joe Biden shored up the Democrats’ “blue wall,” — more sturdily in Michigan, more tenuously in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — to rebuild the party’s path back to the White House. Trump had stunned the country four years ago by winning the three states that had been carried for decades by Democrats by a total of 77,000 votes. Biden, from the start, sought to reclaim at least some of those voters, making his appeal as a son of Scranton, Pa., who attended a state college, had known financial struggle, and could relate to their concerns.
Joe Biden shored up the Democrats’ “blue wall,” — more sturdily in Michigan, more tenuously in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — to rebuild the party’s path back to the White House. Trump had stunned the country four years ago by winning the three states that had been carried for decades by Democrats by a total of 77,000 votes. Biden, from the start, sought to reclaim at least some of those voters, making his appeal as a son of Scranton, Pa., who attended a state college, had known financial struggle, and could relate to their concerns.