HAMPTON, N.H. — With the nation’s first primary fast approaching, Joe Biden told the few hundred people gathered at a hotel conference room in this beach town that he wasn’t there to take a dip in the ocean.
“I came for one reason,” the former vice president said. “I need your vote.”
If Biden is going down in New Hampshire, he’s going down fighting.
After a disappointing fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and another kind of bracing dip — in New Hampshire polls — Biden’s tried to steady his campaign with fiery attacks on his Democratic rivals, feisty exchanges with reporters, and emotional appeals to voters centered on character, empathy, and his experiences with personal loss.
“How many of you have lost someone close to you?” he asked the audience in Hampton. “This is incredible what we are going through now. This president has not an ounce of empathy in his body.”
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