Former US Vice President 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. JUSTIN HAYWORTH Former US Vice President Joe Biden is facing fierce competition as he bids to become the Democrats' 2020 nominee for US President. ALEX BRANDON/AP US President Donald Trump's devoted base means he'll do well in a number of important states. Fairly or not, Biden's national staff has fuelled skeptical assessments with pronouncements that he doesn't have to win Iowa to win the nomination. Harold Schaitberger, the firefighters' national union president, compared the dynamics to 2004, another primary fight when Democrats were desperate to oust a Republican president.

Source: Stuff December 01, 2019 04:18 UTC