Joe Biden Doesn’t Look So Electable in Person...[NYT]

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Joe Biden Doesn’t Look So Electable in Person

He may be a likable white man, but his performance on the trail doesn’t inspire confidence.
Michelle Goldberg

By Michelle Goldberg

Opinion Columnist

On Saturday, Joe Biden was one of 20 presidential candidates to speak at a Planned Parenthood forum in Columbia, S.C., held right next door to the state’s Democratic convention. It was just a couple of weeks after he’d reversed his longtime support for the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion. One of the moderators asked him what he’d say to pro-choice voters who have concerns about his mixed record on the issue.

This was part of his answer: “The fact of the matter is that we’re in a situation where mortality rate for poor women and black women, here in this state, 26.5 percent of the, 24, 25.6 people, who of 100,000 who need, who end up dying as a consequence of birth, it’s absolutely absurd.” (He was referring to South Carolina’s maternal mortality rate, which is 26.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 births.)

Seeing Biden on the stump often feels like watching an actor who can’t quite remember his lines. Even if you don’t support him, it’s hard not to feel anxious on his behalf.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/opinion/joe-biden-electability-2020.html

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

IMO Biden can beat Trump, the only Democrat who can do so. He's a big threat.

[Fishrrman]

The real question here:
Who does the Times really want to be the nominee...?

[jmyrlefuller]

IMO Biden can beat Trump, the only Democrat who can do so. He's a big threat.

Joe Biden is everything that Donald Trump is not (though he pretends to be some of them): a Washington insider and a pragmatist who actually made a career of cutting deals, including sequestration, the last real effort at deficit reduction we've seen since the Clinton era. He is a creature of The Swamp, and would probably govern a lot like Bill Clinton did—meaning that what our nation's policy becomes will largely depend on who controls Congress. Of the Democrats in the field, he's probably the least evil of them all.

The problem is, do the Democrats want that, or do they want the token minority or far-left socialist who promises nothing but free stuff?

[Ghost Bear]

IMO Biden can beat Trump, the only Democrat who can do so. He's a big threat.

My prediction for the record: IMO, Biden won't make it to the first Democrat caucus/primary.

[Wingnut]

Biden is the one old white man to keep the Rat party relevant.