There were few guests, no food and no sign of Joe Biden. In the short queue for the cash bar, a middle-aged woman sobbed. Welcome to the former vice-president’s primary night party. Diehard supporters cannot have been shocked by his defeat: Mr Biden, 77, had flown out of the state while the votes were still being counted, travelling on to South Carolina, a much more diverse state where he hopes to revive his campaign. Yet the scale of his humiliation made for a muted and downbeat party on Tuesday night. Mr Biden addressed the crowd of barely 150 people in a hotel ballroom in Nashua, New Hampshire, via videolink. His message, lasting less than three minutes, strived for a defiant note. “We’re going to Continue reading