Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that Democrats have stopped appealing to the middle class, and need to reconnect to that group of voters.
“We don’t talk to them anymore,” Biden said on MSNBC Tuesday night. “We don’t associate with their difficulty anymore, its almost like somehow, they’re in good shape. But they’re not.”
Biden said a big part of the problem was the Great Recession.
“They absolutely got clobbered,” Biden said about the middle class. Describing what he and President Obama encountered when they took office was “everything but locusts arrived on the president’s desk.”
“We just started being back to the point where we can talk about rebuilding the middle class … but we don’t talk enough to their concerns,” Biden conceded.
“I think there’s cultural stuff too,” he admitted at host Chris Matthews’ prompting. That allows politicians who appeal to “fears and anxieties” are able to “make some gains,” Biden said.
