Biden seen as weak front-runner as 2020 U.S. Democratic race heats up

MSN News ^ | September 2, 2019 | James Oliphant for Reuters

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As summer ends and the race for the 2020 Democratic U.S. presidential nomination shifts into a higher gear, former Vice President Joe Biden's perilous position atop the vast field stands to be tested under even more pressure.

Biden, 76, has consistently maintained a comfortable lead over his rivals. But his campaign has been plagued by doubts over his age, fitness for office and whether, as a moderate, he can be a standard-bearer for a party that has grown increasingly liberal.

Those questions are likely to be magnified in the coming weeks.

Labor Day serves as the traditional marker for the White House race to intensify, with five months to go until the first nominating contest - February in Iowa - in the state-by-state process of picking the party's nominee to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election.

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Heats up? I think not.

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If the Republicans are caught flat-footed, sure she will, but if they do some oppo research and prepare, she will end up flopping because she has always been allowed to control her image since nobody really wants to think ill of a sympathetic seeming tv personality who gives away goodies to random people. What’s not to love? But control of the executive branch is a very different thing and it’s sort of like Michelle Obama in that people put up with her and say nice things because she was in a position that was public and she wasn’t doing anything that could hurt people beyond the lunch thing. There is a big difference between a job that requires you to be Miss Congeniality vs someone who has to play hardball with other world leaders, and rightly so.