The freshly anointed presidential campaign rematch cracked open a new chapter Thursday, with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris visiting the Midwest – one with a problem to fix, the other a base to galvanize – and former President Donald Trump opting for a seat in a Florida courtroom.
Biden, who, like Trump, clinched his party’s presidential nomination earlier this week, began the day in Wisconsin before heading to Michigan, perhaps the most volatile of battleground states, where his primary victory some two weeks ago was undermined in part by an estimable number of dissenting Democratic votes – for “uncommitted” – in protest of his handling of Israel’s war in Gaza. Harris was nearby in Minnesota, making what is believed to be the first visit of a sitting president or vice president to a clinic that provides abortion service