Jill Biden encourages residents to ‘caucus for Joe’

With the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses rapidly approaching, the presidential campaigns are swarming Iowa in force as candidates seek to make their final pitches to caucus goers. In Sigourney on Monday, one such surrogate was here doing that.

Dr. Jill Biden, wife for former Vice-President Joe Biden, spoke before a crowd of around 25 residents, at Barn Wired in Sigourney, to encourage local residents to support her husband on caucus night. Biden said that the nation as we know it is incredibly divided.

“It’s hard not to focus on the things that divide us, the bigotry, the political rift,” she said.

Turning to some of the issues that her husband would champion in the White House, Biden talked about health care, telling the story of her sister who became very ill while her husband was vice-president and needed a stem cell procedure. Unfortunately, she did not have health insurance at the time, the former second lady recalled.

“It was only because of the Affordable Care Act that she could find a plan that she could really afford,” she said. “It was that law that made it possible for her to get coverage even though she had a pre-existing condition,” Biden recalled.

Biden further recalled that getting the Affordable Care Act passed was no-easy task to begin with.

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