Biden casts the election as prom night for the voters who ‘brung me to the dance’

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden talks to his supporters, he can make the presidential election sound like a high school prom.

“You guys brought me to the dance in 2020,” he told Irish Americans on a campaign call Friday, suggesting these are the voters who got him where he is today, on the verge of his last waltz in politics.

But those aren’t the only devoted dance partners for Biden (who claims to have two left feet).

Look who else he says brought him to the dance: Black Americans. Unions. Bigwig donors. Environmentalists. Jewish Americans. Teachers. And, obviously, his Delaware-based campaign staff.

“These are the folks, as that saying goes up in Claymont, who ‘brung me to the dance,’” he said in a February visit to his campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, just 15 minutes south of Claymont, where he attended high school.

He told the United Auto Workers in Michigan that same month that they “brung me to the dance… and I never left you.” He said the same to donors in Virginia last September, adding, “I wouldn’t be here without you.”

Biden’s grateful shout-outs to a wide array of dance-floor besties are meant to make different blocs of voters feel important to the cause. But they also speak more seriously to the conflicting coalitions that the president and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump need to assemble to win in November.

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