Former Vice President Joe Biden has officially entered the 2020 race for president after months of hinting around about a run. In a video launching his campaign, Biden talked about how the troubling scenes from Charlottesville, where white supremacists marched in the streets and Donald Trump referred to some of them as “very fine people”, heavily influenced his decision to run.
Here’s the “America Is An Idea” video from Joe Biden.
Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com says there is a path for Joe Biden to win the primary and polls indicate he’s out front of the pack, largely because of name recognition.
Will Joe Biden be able to win over primary voters this time around? Will he be able to rally a diverse electorate to his side? That most certainly remains to be seen and he’s got a number of hurdles from his past to overcome—namely his poor treatment of Anita Hill, his support of mass incarceration, his belief that we can return to the days of old where Republicans and Democrats reach across the aisle (ignoring that Mitch McConnell and House Republicans are not interested in any type of bipartisanship and haven’t been for more than a decade) and his recent jokes about the #MeToo movement. Will his successful sting as Obama’s vice president be enough to propel him past those obstacles? Or is the electorate ready for a new era and a new face of the Democratic party?