Biden: ‘A Lot People Were Left Behind’ In the Obama-Biden Era

Former Vice President Joe Biden remarked that President Barack Obama’s administration did not address the dreams and economic concerns of blue collar white workers.

“A lot of people were left behind,” Biden told the New York Times in an interview published Tuesday. “In areas where people were hard hit, I don’t think we paid enough attention to their plight.”

The 2020 presidential candidate then suggested it might have been a matter of perception for those disenchanted Democrats who voted for Donald Trump in 2016.

He told The Times after Trump’s victory, “People are wondering whether we really care about their plight, those of us who hold public office,” adding that this makes them “susceptible to demagoguery.”

Biden told the Times that Obama should have better promoted his successes but that the president told him it wouldn’t be appropriate to take “a victory lap [because] we have so much more to do,” even though many White House staffers apparently thought it necessary to “explain to people how we got to where we were now and why it happened.”