Every candidate for the Democratic nomination for president (save one) knows what they need to do: knock former vice president Joe Biden out of the race. Biden himself knows he’s the battleship everyone else needs to sink. He expects the torpedoes. But will anyone launch them?
Attacking Biden is necessary, but it is risky. Each individual candidate would prefer for everyone else to do the attacking and avoid the ire Biden fans will attach to whomever bruises Uncle Joe. All of the candidates have to know, however, that they are prisoners of the same dilemma: They need Biden to trip, but they don’t want to be seen as the one who has stuck out their leg. CONT.
Hugh Hewitt, Washington Post