Former vice president Joe Biden speaks Tuesday at the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Biden supporters listen to him speak Tuesday at a campaign rally at the Grand River Center in Dubuque, Iowa. Biden’s campaign advisers feel the president has played into their hands, effectively defining him for the moment as the candidate to beat. Some Trump campaign officials believe Biden’s nomination will blunt the heightened excitement among Democratic voters and that he will have a difficult time rekindling the coalition that pushed Obama to victory twice. Her priorities have changed, and she is strongly in Biden’s camp and eager for whatever she thinks it takes for Trump to be defeated.

Source: Washington Post May 01, 2019 17:23 UTC