Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.: Biden and Obama have spent 14 years as the twin guardians of their party’s coalition, each drawing on the other’s strengths to balance his weaknesses.
Before thousands of raucous supporters on Saturday afternoon on the Temple University campus, Biden delivered an especially fiery defense of his record and Obama made clear he knows what his old ally is going through.
Shapiro is a button-down-looking guy who makes quite a contrast with Fetterman’s hoodie and shorts or sweats look. But Shapiro displays passion on the stump, and he made good use of his moment of national attention Saturday with a driving riff on his opponent’s — and by extension the GOP’s — misunderstanding of what “freedom” means.
Felled by a stroke just days before he won his primary, Fetterman turned in a feisty performance. The fact that he’s still ahead of Oz in at least some surveys after a debate in which the effects of the stroke were painfully obvious encourages his backers to make resilience a calling card. “There’s no quit in John Fetterman,” Biden declared.
Fetterman’s biggest challenges will be securing a large enough turnout in Democratic Philadelphia — the point of the rally — and getting enough moderate Republican-leaning voters who already back Shapiro to break with their party twice, which often proves difficult.Pennsylvania embodies both the good news and bad news for Democrats this year.
The larger frustration is that in the campaigns they ran together, Obama and Biden pointed toward the possibility of bringing together a durable Democratic coalition — of Black voters, Latinos, metro-area moderates and progressives, and a significant share of the White working class. That coalition suffered repeated setbacks and was shattered in 2016. No matter what happens on Tuesday, it remains an audacious but unfulfilled hope.
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