Biden has one big thing to offer voters. He should run on it, mattbai writes
Four years ago last month, I wrote a column titled “Biden should run. Now.” I thought Joe Biden, then the vice president, had earned the right to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, no matter how eager most of the party’s leaders were to shove him aside and clear the field.
No, the one thing a titan like Biden could have done is exactly what Clinton did in 2015: project inevitability, mobilize an army of loyalists early on and deter some other good candidates from getting in. It’s exceedingly rare for any politician to run for president not just three times, but three times spaced out over 32 years. A Democratic strategist joked to me this week, not unkindly, that if Biden could wait just a few more years before jumping back into the arena, he’d be a political cicada, emerging every 20 years to wreak havoc and then disappear.
You won’t get there by trying to put your past in a box and pretending that you can be just as au courant as a Bernie Sanders or a Kamala Harris. So all this business about apologizing for some of the seminal moments in your career, like the crime bill vote or the Clarence Thomas hearings — that’s just pandering to people who aren’t going to choose you anyway.
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