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McClatchy Washington Bureau
McClatchy Washington Bureau
Politics
Alex Roarty

Sweeping change or a move to the middle? Biden's coalition has wide range of goals if he wins

WASHINGTON — Jane Palmer's political history stretches from protesting the Vietnam War as a teenager to backing Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic primary.

Now the 70-year-old is a loyal supporter of Joe Biden, even regularly calling voters in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on his behalf. But she still speaks bluntly about the country's deep need for "transformative" change — and her expectation that the former vice president deliver it if elected.

"Our health care system is deeply and profoundly broken," Palmer said. "Our representative government is deeply and profoundly broken. Our environmental policy, our immigration policy, these are deeply, deeply, deeply broken."

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