In an interview, Vilsack said he believed Iowa voters were still sizing up candidates with the casual but intensifying interest of shoppers paging through gift catalogs weeks before Christmas. The name also provided a marker for the sort of voters he’s attracting — those old enough to know what “malarkey” means. The typical Biden event included a short stump speech — less than 10 minutes at the kickoff rally that Trachta watched. In Denison, Pat Swanson told Biden she was a breast cancer survivor and talked about Beau, a conversation that ended with both teary-eyed. In Council Bluffs, Bobby Larson and his sister told Biden that their 86-year-old grandmother was a huge fan but unable to attend the rally.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 03, 2019 12:56 UTC