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Democrats bank on relief aid to win back wary working class

by Will Weissert
| March 15, 2021 12:03 AM

JEANNETTE, Pa. (AP) — When Joe Biden visited this corner of southwestern Pennsylvania in the final weeks before the election, his goal wasn't to win it so much as to show the area's overwhelmingly white working-class electorate that his party was at least willing to try.

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