Opinion: The questions a Joe Biden presidential candidacy will answer
By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 13 at 2:38 PM Joe Biden is apparently all but ready to enter the 2020 presidential race, and the reception the former vice president gets is likely to tell us more about the thoughts and feelings of the Democratic electorate than what has happened so far to any other candidate.
Is there really a moderate “lane,” and is that where you’d want to be? It has been reported that Biden believes that other candidates will split the liberal vote and he can win the nomination mostly with the support of the party’s moderates. Unfortunately for him, that ignores how presidential primaries work. Liberals might split the vote in a given contest, but a week later when you get to the next primary, some of those candidates will have dropped out or faded from consideration.
But for Biden, there are some issues that the core of the Democratic Party’s base will be uneasy about: his performance running the 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas; the way he defended his opposition to school busing in the 1970s; his work on the notorious 1994 crime bill; and his vigorous defense, as a senator from Delaware, of the credit card industry.
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