Biden under pressure to prove he can handle Trump’s attacks

BILL BARROW Associated Press SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — With five days until the Iowa caucuses, Joe Biden is fending off a new onslaught of GOP attacks over his son's business overseas and facing piling pressure to show Democratic voters he can handle the incoming. As Republicans amplified their allegations against the former vice president, accusing him of nepotism and worse in a series of charges stemming from the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, the Biden campaign promised an aggressive and direct counterstrategy ahead of Monday's first nominating contest. Biden planned an address Thursday in Iowa at the same time Trump was to stage a rally in Des Moines. The Biden campaign was mindful that the last-minute GOP meddling in the Democratic race provides something of a previ