Biden Goes On Offense In Georgia While Trump Targets Midwest

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a drive-in rally at Cellairis Amphitheatre in Atlanta on Tuesday.

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Updated at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden declared on Tuesday the nation can overcome daunting health and economic challenges, even in the turmoil of 2020, invoking the legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a speech from the Georgia hot springs town where FDR coped with polio.

Hoping to expand his electoral map and take on President Donald Trump in the generally conservative South, Biden evoked the architect of the New Deal to argue that America is not too politically diseased by partisan divisions to defy recovery. He pledged to be a unifying force who can “restore our soul and save this country.”