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Biden gets ‘personal’ in new TV ad in Iowa focused on health care

Former Vice President Joe Biden is airing a new TV ad in Iowa that highlights his continued support for the Affordable Care Act, at a time when other progressive Democratic candidates are pushing for a “Medicare for All” approach.

The minute-long ad called “Personal” draws on his personal experiences after a 1972 car accident took the lives of his wife and daughter, and badly injured his sons Hunter and Beau, as well as his late son Beau’s diagnosis with brain cancer.

“Health care is personal to me. Obamacare is personal to me. When I see the President try to tear it down and others propose to replace it and start over, that’s personal to me too,” the former vice president says in the video.

As more liberal candidates are proposing enrolling all Americans in a national health plan — and, in turn, eliminating private health insurance — Biden has stuck by former President Barack Obama’s signature health care plan, proposing massive new subsidies to make health care through Obamacare’s exchanges cheaper.

“We got to build on what we did because every American deserves affordable health care,” Biden says in his ad.

The new health care ad is part of a six-figure television and digital ad purchase in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.

Biden’s campaign aired its first TV ad in Iowa last week entitled “Bones,” which highlighted his work alongside Obama and painted President Donald Trump as “an erratic, vicious, bullying president.”

Feds turn over evidence in Renee Good and Alex Pretti killings to Minnesota after months of delay

Federal prosecutors turned over key evidence long sought by Minnesota investigators in their ongoing probe into the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during pitched protests against an immigration enforcement crackdown earlier this year, state prosecutors announced Monday. The progress came as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a motorist in Maine on Monday, and Houston prosecutors complained the administration was still withholding critical information in their investigation into a fatal shooting by an ICE officer last week. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said the evidence turned over by U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Daniel Rosen's office included previously withheld hard drives containing statements, police body camera video and other materials in the Minnesota killings. Federal prosecutors also turned over Good’s badly damaged SUV, she said. “The wonderful thing now is we have all the evidence,” Moriarty said. “Any time the government is responsible in whatever way of taking the life of a community member we need to have a full and thorough investigation.”
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