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President Biden’s Postcards From the Edge

The president’s imagery was meant to convey a man going after the rich to help the middle class, but that is really not the issue for voters right now.

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President Biden at Scranton, Pennsylvania on October 20, 2021. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
SALENA ZITO
SALENA ZITO

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania — Several years ago, the Smithsonian magazine ran an elegant story about the use of postcards in American culture as a way both to communicate to loved ones far away and to illustrate what the traveler wants you to see about where they have been.

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SALENA ZITO
SALENA ZITO

Ms. Zito is a CNN political analyst, and a staff reporter and columnist for the Washington Examiner. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through shoe-leather journalism, traveling from Main Street to the beltway and all places in between.

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