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Inside Joe Biden's race of a lifetime

By Edward Luce
Financial Times·
23 mins to read

He has been trying to win the White House for more than 30 years. Can he beat Donald Trump in 2020?

It was late afternoon on February 2, the eve of the Iowa caucuses. We were jammed into a high-school gymnasium in Des Moines, the state capital, for Joe Biden's closing rally. No one thought he would win the primary season's talismanic opening contest the following day. Nor was he expected to come close to beating Bernie Sanders, the socialist

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