Article snippet: ELKADER, Iowa — Former secretary of state John F. Kerry expressed confidence Friday that Joe Biden could make up lost ground in Iowa, saying voters would gravitate toward his political record and trusted experience in foreign policy. “Real accomplishment is not unimportant,” Kerry, who endorsed the former vice president Thursday, told reporters after a packed community forum held by Biden at a restaurant event center. People just have to get to know him, Kerry said. “I think he ought to do what he is doing,” he said. “He has to meet Iowa.” The friends and former Senate colleagues hit the road together on the closing stretch of Biden’s “No Malarkey” bus tour. The eight-day trip with stops in small towns, suburbs, and cities comes as Biden seeks to rejuvenate his presidential campaign here after slipping in the polls while South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg has seen a surge. Kerry, who won the Iowa caucuses on his way to grabbing the Democratic nomination in 2004, drew comparisons between his come-from-behind victory here and Biden’s current position. “I am always extremely suspicious of reports that . . . aren’t on the ground,” Kerry said. “All the pundits sitting back at these, you know, talkathon cable stations are sometimes just really not in touch with what is happening on the ground here.” In Cedar Rapids, where the two started the day, Kerry and Biden delivered an animated and full-throated rebuke of President Trump before an audience of 200 people gath... Link to the full article to read more