ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Joe Biden has visited Iowa countless times over 32 years, in previous presidential bids and as vice president. But Tuesday [4-30-19] was the first time he arrived in the state as the Democratic front-runner. And in his first stops in eastern Iowa, Biden acted as if he was already in a general election match-up with President Donald Trump. In the first minutes of a rally in Cedar Rapids, he again lambasted Trump over the 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, organized by white supremacists — where Trump responded to the killing of a counter-protester by claiming there had been ‘very fine people on both sides.’ Biden mocked Trump for defending those words last week, saying he had ‘doubled down on concocting a phony story on how these violent thugs only wanted to protect’ the city’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee…Though he swung repeatedly at Trump, Biden pulled his punches when it came to other Democratic contenders.”
-Eric Bradner, “Biden takes aim at Trump as he enters Iowa the Democratic front-runner,” CNNPolitics, CNN.com, April 30, 2019 8:35 pm