Multiple news outlets are reporting that soon-to-be former Vice President Joe Biden is considering seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, when Republican President-elect Donald Trump is expected to seek a second term in office (unless he alienates too many people in his own party before then, that is).
While Biden is an interesting character, if Biden were to run for president and win the Democratic nomination, he’d lose to Trump, probably in a landslide.
While Biden comes from a blue-collar area of the country, he has no real appeal to blue-collar Americans. He supports the free trade deals, such as the failed TPP deal, that Obama supported, and it’s not that hard to tie Obama’s agenda of corporate giveaways like the automobile industry bailout, free trade deals with countries like South Korea, and Obamacare to Biden...after all, Biden supported Obama and his corporate agenda the entire time Biden was vice president. To give you a general idea of how weak the Obama Administration is going to be viewed as four years from now, it took the Standing Rock Sioux and an actress named Shailene Woodley to get Obama’s Army Corps of Engineers to reroute the Dakota Access Pipeline. Oh, and if you want to talk about Biden’s actual accomplishments as vice president, his “cancer moonshot” is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded giveaway to the medical research industry that would probably lead to no real advancements in the fight against cancer. Elizabeth Warren gets it; she voted against Biden’s “cancer moonshot”.
The American people are sick and tired of foreign countries taking their manufacturing jobs, corporations getting preferential treatment from politicians, NATO and the Defense Department getting more and more money and wasting more and more money at the expense of government programs designed to help the American people, and a Democratic Party that does not much more than cater to political professionals and corporate special interests. I’d be more than happy if someone like Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders were our party’s presidential nominee in 2020, and, if Warren runs for the Democratic nomination, she’ll have my vote if she makes it to the Illinois primary. The Democratic Party must become an isolationist, anti-globalization party promising to usher in a new era of manufacturing in this country, or the party will go the way of the Whigs.