Joe Biden: 'He reminds me of my son Beau': Biden stumps for Conor Lamb

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Pittsburgh Post Gazette March 6, 2018

Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-local/2018/03/06/Joe-Biden-Conor-Lamb-Rick-Saccone-18th-Congressional-District-special-election-Tim-Murphy/stories/201803060165

Former Vice President Joe Biden paid Democratic congressional candidate Conor Lamb the ultimate compliment Tuesday: “He reminds me of my son Beau,” Mr. Biden said, referring to the Delaware attorney general who died of cancer in 2015.

“He reminds me of my Beau because with Beau and with Conor, it’s about the other guy,” Mr. Biden said in remarks in a crowded Collier union hall Tuesday afternoon and again in an evening appearance before several hundred people in a ballroom at Robert Morris University in Moon.

Mr. Lamb, 33, is running in a special election Tuesday against Republican Rick Saccone to represent the 18th Congressional District seat vacated by Tim Murphy. Like the late Beau Biden, Mr. Lamb is a former military lawyer with a family legacy in politics: His grandfather was a Democratic leader in the state Legislature. Or as Mr. Biden put it, “Public service is in his blood. It’s all he’s done; think about it.”

Much of Mr. Biden’s two stump speeches were the same, but the audiences were different. In his afternoon appearance at the Carpenters Training Center, Mr. Biden spoke to a group that was mostly male and skewed older. In RMU’s Yorktown Hall, the capacity crowd was made up of more women and young people.

-more at link - including many more positive quotes by Biden and Lamb

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[Gothmog]

1. I love Joe Biden-he is my hero

[Bleacher Creature]

2. Anyone who's ever heard him speak about Beau knows he doesn't say such things lightly.

This is a serious complement from Biden!

[BigmanPigman]

3. Biden is loved by a lot of people in PA.

Good for him for doing this...we need all the help we can get. He is from RED Scranton too.