Opinion: Biden may or may not win the nomination. But he knows the stakes.
By Eugene Robinson Eugene Robinson Columnist focusing on politics and culture Email Bio Follow Columnist April 25 at 5:16 PM Joe Biden begins his presidential campaign with a lead over the crowded Democratic field and a simple message the nation can immediately grasp: I can stop the madness. I can beat President Trump.
Four candidates who are bunched between 8.3 percent and 6.3 percent in the RCP poll average — Sen. Kamala D. Harris, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former congressman Beto O’Rourke — might be considered a second tier, I suppose. But at this point, it’s a pretty low tier. If the race were a skyscraper, that group would be on the mezzanine — with Sen. Cory Booker struggling to join them. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen.
But my guess is that electability, or perceived electability, is also playing a role in boosting Biden to an early lead. The one thing that must be accomplished in 2020 is the defeat of Trump. In the announcement video he posted on social media Thursday, Biden called it a “battle for the soul of this nation.
Conventional wisdom holds that the Democratic candidates can’t just be anti-Trump — that they must talk primarily about bread-and-butter issues such as health care, the opioid crisis and the hollowing out of the working class. Indeed, Democrats do have to offer solutions. But to be silent about Trump is to tiptoe around the elephant in the parlor. The single biggest issue, for the health and prosperity of the nation, is getting him out of office.
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