Joe Biden Wants Everyone to Lower Their Expectations
PITTSBURGH—Joe Biden wants to be the front-runner, but he still wants to come off as scrappy.
He wants all the attention from being a former vice president and from leading primary polls, but all the credit for beating expectations and raising more money in his first 24 hours than the records set by a socialist senator from Vermont and a former congressman who couldn’t win statewide. He wants the attention that led the national media to descend here on Monday afternoon, but maybe doesn’t want them pointing out that the crowd he drew skewed older, scattered with people who sat on the floor to rest during breaks in the program.
He wants people to be impressed that the room at the teamsters’ hall was packed, but not linger on the campaign picking a room that could fit
