Former Vice President Joe Biden officially launched his presidential campaign in Philadelphia on Saturday. Presenting himself as the antidote to President Donald Trump, Biden promised that he would unite and bring the nation together again. “I am running to offer our country — Democrats, Republicans and independents — a different […] Read more »
Abortion Fight or Strong Economy? For G.O.P., Cultural Issues Undercut 2020 Message
… Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign and congressional Republicans surely will highlight the country’s economic gains should they continue through 2020, of course, and will target Democrats over issues such as taxes and the size of government — particularly if a liberal like Senator Bernie Sanders or Senator Elizabeth Warren emerges […] Read more »
When it comes to the Democratic presidential field, bigger is not better
Can you name them? Can you name even half of them? Do you know where they come from or what they do or have done? Do you know for what they stand or how they differ? “They” are the blur of candidates running for the Democratic presidential nomination. … The […] Read more »
Why it won’t be easy for Elizabeth Warren to take Bernie Sanders’ base
A new national Fox News poll finds former vice president Joe Biden leading the Democratic primary 35% to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 17% and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s 9%. The poll is the latest to show Biden rising from the high 20s into the mid-to-upper 30s and Warren climbing from […] Read more »
Does Anyone Actually Want Joe Biden to Be President?
In a field crowded with nearly two dozen candidates, no answer to the electability question is offered more regularly and with more conviction than “Joe Biden.” … The case that people make for Mr. Biden’s electability is not that any one group of people is particularly excited by him, but […] Read more »
It Won’t Take Long for the Deep Dem Field to Start Thinning
… Whenever I use the NCAA basketball tournament’s bracket as an analogy for the Democratic presidential nomination, I can count on one friend who is extremely knowledgeable about Democratic politics to shake his head and rightly argue that voters cannot be conveniently sorted into tidy boxes—demographic, ideological, or cultural. … […] Read more »