While Biden embraces his Irish roots, the rest of his family tree rarely comes up. “And Irish Americans have been an important manifestation of that image from the beginning of the republic.”īut that’s only half the story of Biden’s heritage - or, more precisely, five-eighths of it. “He kind of embodies the American common man,” Meagher said. Throughout, it has helped him bolster a personal brand built on Average Joe relatability. Later, it helped Biden serve as a bridge to Irish Americans and other white Catholics, who have drifted from the Democratic Party in recent decades. In a different era, it helped him channel a Kennedy mystique, when, as a young senator in the years after Bobby Kennedy’s assassination, he was seen as an heir to Camelot. Biden has had plenty of reasons to lean into his Irish heritage over the years.
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