(AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden has brought his blue-collar appeal to a Democratic stronghold of Indiana, heaping praise on Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly as the kind of guy who keeps his word, puts country over party — and would have his back in a street fight.
Biden told a crowd in the heavily industrial northwest corner of Indiana on Friday that, “Joe is as good a man as I know.”
He says that “if there’s any time we needed character in the United States Senate, it’s now.”
Donnelly is in a tight race for re-election against Republican businessman Mike Braun. The contest could determine which party controls the Senate.
Vice President and former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence spoke at a rally for Braun in Indianapolis at about the same time.
