Joe Biden campaigns for Tammy Baldwin, Tony Evers: ‘We’re in a battle for America’s soul’

Molly Beck Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 2:14 PM EDT Oct 30, 2018 MADISON – Former vice president and potential presidential contender Joe Biden urged students on the campus of University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday to vote for candidates of character in what he called a “battle for America’s soul.” With seven days to go, Biden returned to Madison to encourage voters to re-elect U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and to unseat Gov. Scott Walker by electing state schools Superintendent Tony Evers. Biden took a somber tone before a crowd of at least 1,000 of mostly UW-Madison students recalling the national environment when he graduated college in 1968 — the same year Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated. “I walked across that stage determined,” Biden said about receiving his diploma. “I was going to help change things because we had had enough. My sense is that’s where you guys are.” Biden told the crowd they could channel their anger over policies implemented and rhetoric espoused by President Donald Trump with their vote. He said if voters of their age had voted at the same rate as voters in their 40s, the 2016 election would have seen about 5 million more votes. … Read full this story

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