ST. LOUIS — Sun glinting off his aviator shades and a pearly white smile beaming, former vice president Joe Biden was high on his comeback as he wound his way to the stage at a downtown plaza where supporters cheered under the iconic Gateway Arch.
“What a difference a week makes,” he told the boisterous crowd of more than 1,500 people on Saturday. “This time last week, I was in South Carolina. They hadn’t finished voting and the press and the pundits had declared Biden’s campaign is dead. But South Carolina had something to say about that.”
Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders are in a neck-and-neck, two-man contest for the Democratic presidential nomination heading into another big election Tuesday this week, even as Biden has taken the lead in national polls. But Biden’s slew of Super Tuesday victories last week after his big South Carolina win has rejuvenated him and his supporters, allowing him to expand his advertising and ambition as he shifts his message. Now Biden is billing himself as the unlikely underdog, as he attempts to strike at the core of Sanders’ “electability” pitch.
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