Policy · 116th Congress
Biden will support Amtrak; can he convince GOP?
How his years riding the rails put him on a first-name basis with Amtrak staff. How he announced his first presidential bid at the train station in Wilmington in 1987.
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How his years riding the rails put him on a first-name basis with Amtrak staff. How he announced his first presidential bid at the train station in Wilmington in 1987.
“He also rails against the swamp, rails against lobbyists, and then sends emails to lobbyists to attend his fundraisers, which arrive in our in-boxes quarterly.”
O’Rourke, who rails against the influence of money in politics, also had some help in 2012 from a deep-pocketed super PAC, and a lucky break that gave him more time to campaign.