Joe Biden’s inevitable 2020 presidential candidacy is a strange, strange thing. Biden has longed to be president all his political life: he first ran in 1988; he ran again 20 years later. Now we’re more than a decade past his last grab for power, and Biden, as he nears 80, thinks his day has come once more.
What are voters supposed to think is different this time? If Biden wasn’t good enough in 1988 or 2008, why should Democrats accept him as the best they can do in 2020?
Is he the most electable candidate? Polls don’t suggest he’s the only Democrat who can defeat Trump, and there’s good reason to think that Biden’s present approval ratings will only plummet once he’s officially a candidate. Hillary Clinton was the most popular politician in America in the months before she declared for 2016.
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