Analysis: The former vice president, and current Democratic front-runner, can't afford for voters to see him as an unpredictable risk.
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden was quick to try to clean up his latest campaign trail slip-up Friday by pivoting to a counterattack on President Donald Trump.
Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod said she believes Biden's flub is a minor foul, but one he'd prefer not to have committed. But Republicans also rushed to point out, amid the president's race-baiting re-election effort, that Biden has a long record of uttering racially insensitive thoughts, and spoke fondly earlier this year of his relationships with segregationist senators.
On Friday, he got a little help from his friends: most of the other Democratic candidates refrained from a major pile-on.New York Mayor Bill De Blasio, a long shot candidate for the Democratic nomination, used the moment to question whether Biden allies' argument that he is the party's most electable candidate in a matchup with Trump is grounded in the idea that winning requires insensitivity to certain segments of the population.
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