Can Joe Biden Successfully Run a Campaign Out of His Delaware Basement?

The former vice president is reviving the ‘front porch’ style of campaigning to connect with voters amid the pandemic

Ben Jacobs
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5 min readApr 20, 2020

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In 1896, William McKinley won the presidency while sitting on his front porch smoking cigars. Over a century later, former Vice President Joe Biden…

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Ben Jacobs
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Ben Jacobs is a politics reporter based in Washington. Follow him on Twitter at @bencjacobs.