Joe Biden billed himself as a transitional figure in the 2020 presidential campaign — a generational “bridge” to a future full of Democrats that Americans don’t support and for whom they won’t vote. That is the conclusion we must draw given Biden’s reluctance to pass the baton.
“Mr. Biden likes to remind anyone who will listen that he is the only one who has beaten Mr. Trump,” the New York Times reported last autumn, “and he remains confident that he is the Democrat who is best equipped to do it again.” That sentiment appears to be gaining purchase among some influential Democrats, as the president gears up to launch his reelection campaign in the coming days. “Yeah, he’s old,” South Carolina Democrat Dick Harpootlian recently commented to the Washington Post. “But he’s only four years older than Trump, so less distinction there.”
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