Some Look At Joe Bidens Campaign And See Hillary Clintons

(New York Times) Lisa Lerer May 6 2019 IOWA CITY He doesnt talk about shattering glass ceilings. Pantsuits arent really his style. And no one is talking much about his spouse. Even so the opening days of Joseph R. Biden Jr.s third presidential campaign are giving some Democrats flashbacks to another presidential front-runner: Hillary Clinton. Mr. Bidens first fund-raiser? Hosted by a Philadelphia-area donor who did the same for Mrs. Clinton four years ago. His early policies? Embraced by Democrats including Mrs. Clinton for years. A decades-long record in Washington? Mrs. Clinton had a similarly lengthy rsum. And a tortured drawn-out apology as the first controversy of his campaign? Remember her private email account former Clinton aides shudder. As he ramps up his presidential campaign Mr. Biden appears to have taken some lessons from Mrs. Clintons defeat but paid no heed to others. Even as he structures his campaign around an implicit critique of her general election effort offering a full-throated appeal to working-class voters at his opening event in a Pittsburgh union hall Mr. Biden has embraced the kind of incumbent-like establishment campaign that left Mrs. Clinton open to a fierce primary challenge from Senator Bernie Sanders.