Opinion: Joe Biden gets ready to take the plunge
Former vice president Joe Biden last week at a rally in Dorchester, Mass. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 23 at 9:00 AM This post has been updated.
Unlike virtually every candidate in the race who either has questions about his readiness/experience or ideological extremism , Biden is as ready and experienced as one can be having served for decades in the Senate and for two terms as President Barack Obama’s vice president. He’s center-left ideologically, and is someone seen as a friend to organized labor and the African American community — but never to be confused with self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders .
Biden’s challenge is to avoid becoming the candidate of the past or the candidate of the Obama status quo. It’s going to be tempting to defend every action from that administration, but Democrats and the country at large look at problems that didn’t begin with Trump and wonder whether a septuagenarian who spent decades inside the Beltway is really the guy to take on racial injustice, glaring income inequality, forever wars and the influence of money in politics.
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