To put it mildly, former vice president Joe Biden hasn’t had a great week. Multiple women have come forward saying that he was uncomfortably handsy with them on the campaign trail. … So what, other than the assumption that Biden could win back some white, working-class Obama-to-Trump voters, is keeping […] Read more »
The Biden Paradox, and How to Solve It
Joe Biden, apparently on the cusp of declaring his third run for the White House, is caught in a paradox that might be without precedent in modern American presidential politics. Nearly everyone thinks he can beat Donald Trump. At the same time, no one thinks he’ll get the chance to […] Read more »
Joe Biden’s not so secret weapon: Barack Obama
… Biden has been the polling frontrunner throughout the early stages of the 2020 Democratic primary. Yet, as I’ve noted before, there are many reasons to believe his advantage won’t hold. … The problem for Biden is obvious: the Democratic electorate is moving to the left. Whether you examine Gallup […] Read more »
Don’t Sell Biden’s Vice Presidential Experience Short
Some pundits have emphasized Vice President Joe Biden’s lack of success in prior presidential races in assessing his strength as a presidential candidate this cycle. In arguing that Biden should not throw his hat into the ring, Julian Zelizer, the prominent Princeton University history professor, recently argued that Democrats had […] Read more »
Joe Biden’s 2020 chances might be stronger than we think
Former Vice President Joe Biden is thinking about running for president, yet few seem to think he’s the frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. The reasons to be suspect are plenty including his record (fairly mainstream in a party moving to the left), his age (he’s 76) and the […] Read more »
Polls say Joe Biden’s age isn’t necessarily hurting him with young Democrats
Democratic voters have split along generational lines in the past two presidential primary cycles. And 2020’s very early front-runner, former vice president Joe Biden, has been criticized for being, well, old. In the limited polling that we have so far, Biden leads the pack of 2020 potential Democratic nominees, a […] Read more »