Joe Biden, the current front-runner among those running for the Democratic presidential nomination, brings an unusual quality to his candidacy: 44 years of service as an elected official at the federal level. … What are the implications of Biden’s extraordinary experience for his presidential campaign? Can Biden thread the needle […] Read more »
The case for and against Joe Biden’s 2020 chances
Former Vice President Joe Biden officially jumped into the 2020 presidential race on Thursday — and his candidacy is perhaps the most analytically perplexing of any of the Democrats. He’s probably got the best chance of any Democrat running to win the nomination, but the other candidates combined have a […] Read more »
Joe Biden’s Path To The Democratic Nomination
Former Vice President Joe Biden announced his candidacy for president on Thursday. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast crew discusses how he could win the Democratic nomination and also why he might come up short. A core question for his campaign will be whether he runs as a consensus candidate or as […] Read more »
How Joe Biden Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary
Joe Biden has officially entered the 2020 presidential race. His case to win the 2020 Democratic nomination is fairly simple: As Barack Obama’s two-term vice president, he’s the most familiar brand in the field. He’s ahead in the polls (it’s emphatically not a tie for the lead with Bernie Sanders; […] Read more »
Biden Would be Arguably the Most Experienced New President Ever
In 1980, George H.W. Bush ran for the Republican nomination for president as a candidate of experience, using as a slogan “A President We Won’t Have to Train.” … For Joe Biden, the former vice president and political lifer, dusting off Bush’s 1980 slogan might make some sense. That’s because […] Read more »
Generational challenges lie ahead for Biden and Buttigieg
Sometimes the confluence of unrelated events provides a moment of clarity in politics. So it is with the recent travails of former vice president Joe Biden and the recent emergence of Pete Buttigieg in the 2020 presidential race. They highlight the challenges that generational politics will play as Democrats select […] Read more »