WASHINGTON _ For more than a year, Missouri voters watched from afar as the historically diverse Democratic presidential primary field winnowed down from more than 20 candidates to two septuagenarian white men who have spent decades in Washington.
Former Vice President Biden, 77, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 and remained there until his two terms as vice president from 2009 to 2017. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, 78, won his U.S. House seat in 1990 before moving to the U.S. Senate 16 years later.
But Biden and Sanders offer a stark contrast in terms of their voting records and policy goals.
