GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Presidential hopefuls tend to declare every upcoming election the most important one that voters have faced in their lifetime.
Joe Biden goes bigger.The Democratic nominee portrays 2020 as an entanglement of social, economic, political, environmental and public health crises as threatening to America’s stability as the Civil War and the Great Depression.
Biden points to the presidents of those times -- Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt -- for inspiration, even using one of the nation’s most hallowed battlefields, where Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address in 1863, as a backdrop for his closing argument against President Donald Trump.“A century and a half after Gettysburg, we should consider again what can.