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    Biden lavishes time and money on key industrial states, but hasn't locked them down yet

    by Janet Hook and Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times Sep 10, 2020 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - The worst strategic mistake Hillary Clinton made in her 2016 campaign for president, many analysts believe, was overconfidence about three states Democrats had won in every presidential election since 1992 - Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

    No one is going to accuse Joe Biden of taking those states for granted.

    The Democrats' presidential nominee is showering money, staff and time over those states - the "blue wall" that crumbled when Donald Trump's victories by tiny margins in all three propelled him to the White House.

    By this weekend, Biden will have made five trips to those battleground states in less than two weeks.

    He traipsed across Pennsylvania as he began venturing from quarantine in his Delaware home last month. On Friday, both he and Trump are scheduled to be in the state

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