Joe Biden stood on the floor of a Wisconsin aluminum plant this week, shed the trappings of his decades in national politics and then took aim at the billionaire New Yorker he wants to evict from the Oval Office.
Ive dealt with guys like Donald Trump my whole life, who would look down on us because we didnt have a lot of money or your parents didnt go to college, Biden said, recalling his boyhood roots. Guys who think theyre better than you. Guys who inherit everything theyve ever gotten in their life and squander it.
Biden has long cultivated his persona as Middle-Class Joe with hardscrabble roots, but as he turns to the closing stretch of his third presidential bid, the Scranton, Pennsylvania, native is personalizing his pitch as he tries to undercut one of the president’s core strengths.
The truth is, Biden said,…