Biden is”finishing the job” Barack Obama suggested to the New York Times, Based on The Guardian.

“I think that what we’re seeing now, is Joe and the administration are essentially finishing the job,” Obama said. “And I think it’ll be an interesting test.

“Ninety percent of the folks that were there in my government, they are continuing and building on the policies we talked about, whether it’s the Affordable Care Act or our climate change agenda and the Paris [climate deal], and figuring out how do we enhance the ladders to freedom through things like community schools.”

“It’s difficult to just highlight just how much the bank bailouts just angered everybody, including me,” Obama stated.

“And then you’ve got this long, slow recovery. Although the economy recovers technically fast, it is just another five years before we’re really back to people feeling like,’OK, the economy is moving and working for me.’

“… Let’s say a Democrat, a Joe Biden, or Hillary Clinton had immediately succeeded me, and the economy suddenly has 3% unemployment, I think we would have consolidated the sense that,’Oh, actually these policies which Obama put in place worked’

“The fact that Trump interrupts essentially the continuation of our policies, but still benefits from the economic stability and growth that we had pioneered, means people are not sure.”

“Well, gosh, unemployment’s 3.5% under Donald Trump.”

“By virtue of biography and generationally,” Obama said, his vice-president, who is 78 and was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania,”can still reach a few of those people”.

“People knew I was left on issues like race, or gender equality, and LGBTQ issues and so forth.”

“However, I think maybe the reason I was successful campaigning in downstate Illinois, or Iowa, or places like that is that they never felt like I was condemning them for not having gotten to the politically correct answer quick enough, or that somehow they were morally suspect because they’d grown up with and thought more traditional values.”

“I could go to the fish fry, or the [Veterans of Foreign Wars] hall, or all these other venues, and just speak to people.”

“And they did not have any preconceptions about what I thought. They could only take me at face value.”

“When I went into those same places now or if any Democrat who’s campaigning goes in those places now, just about all news is from either Fox News, Sinclair news stations, talk radio, or some Facebook page.”

“And trying to penetrate that is really tricky.”

“It’s not that the people in these communities have shifted.”

“It’s that if that’s what you are being fed, day in and day out, then you are likely to come to each conversation with a particular set of predispositions which are really hard to breakthrough.”

“And that is one of the biggest challenges I believe we confront.”

“If you have a conversation with folks,” Obama stated.

“you can usually assuage these fears. But they need to be able to hear you.”

“You have to be able to get into the room. And I still could do this back in 2007, 2008.”

“I think Joe, by virtue of biography and generationally, I believe he could still reach some of those folks.”

“However, it starts getting harder, especially for newcomers that are coming up.”

“Does [success for Biden] override that type of identity politics that has come to dominate Twitter, and the press, which has seeped into how people think about politics?”

“Probably not completely. But at the margins, if you’re changing 5 percent of the electorate, making a difference.”