Biden faces his Waterloo in Iowa as campaign momentum stalls

By Joseph Simonson

Published July 4, 2019 12:51pm ET

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Biden faces his Waterloo in Iowa as campaign momentum stalls — Former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden gets a hug from an audience member during a campaign stop at the Local 838 UAW Hall, Wednesday, July 3, 2019, in Waterloo, Iowa. | (Kelly Wenzel/AP)

WATERLOO, Iowa — When Joe Biden visited Iowa for the first time after he declared his third presidential run in late April, he promised Democrats in the state he’d be there so often that they’d eventually grow sick of him.

It is now July and the former vice president is on only his third visit to the state, having skipped one big gathering to attend his granddaughter’s high school graduation.

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