Joe Biden today:

"And so as he sat in his office one day in October and watched footage of a Donald Trump rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., not far from his childhood home, Biden sensed trouble.
"Son of a gun. We may lose this election," Biden said, recalling his reaction during an interview in his West Wing office.
"They're all the people I grew up with. They're their kids. And they're not racist. They're not sexist. But we didn't talk to them."

Biden's Dad:  'I don't expect the government to solve my problems. But I expect them to understand it,'" Biden said.
"I believe that we were not letting an awful lot of people _ high school-educated, mostly Caucasian, but also people of color _ know that we understood their problems."
There's "a bit of elitism that's crept in" to party thinking, he worries, setting up what he sees as the false impression that progressive values are inconsistent with working-class values."