IMO this is why the D’s have been pushing for Biden to run. They know none of them will win, so you might as well prop up the “old straight white male” as a fall guy, all so you can claim the next candidate *must* be something else...like a black female married lesbian.
They just can’t help themselves. Biden is too dumb to know this as well.
Not Exactly they are pushing Biden because this is a down ballot race...
There is no shot at the White House for them, so in this situation you wind up with 1 fo 2 types of candidates, 1 a loyal back bencher, who knows they can’t win, but understand its a downballot race and will run the race knowing their job is to keep the base motivated an do their best to attract as many independent voters as possible to keep down ballot from being a wipe out... or 2 a firebrand radical, who doesn’t know that its a down ballot race and runs honestly thinking they can win. The latter winds up alienating the middle and turns what is going to be a solid loss for the White House, into an abject ROUTE not only for the white house but also down ballot because they alienate everyone who isn’t already in the radical choir.
Biden is the back bencher, he will do better than any of the other candidates currently running on election day, because he won’t alienate the middle, or at least wont alienate them as much as every other fool in the clown car.
Biden is a weak candidate, but he connects well with the traditional bases of the party and wins the black vote hands down (which by the way is needed to get the nomination, no democrat has won their parties nomination without winning the black vote... and his support among blacks is about 66%... )
Biden is no moderate in my eyes, but compared to the other crazy’s in this race he is certainly closer to where most rank and file democratic voters are than anyone else .. and way closer to swing voters than anyone else in the democrat clown car. However the dems have pandered so much to the crazy left, that I don’t know if he can hold on to the nomination...
If Pocahontas or Grandpa Bernie wind up the nominee... the Dems will be looking at a repeat of the 1972 political dynamic, with a 1984 economy at its back. It will be a bloodbath for them up and down the ballot. Biden (or someone like him) is their best hope for limiting the damage.... Can’t win the big prize, but can keep the base that isn’t loopy leftwing commies from being disengaged.