Joe Biden Is a Stronger Candidate Than You Might Think
The former vice president may be out of sync with Twitter, but that’s not the Democratic Party.
The former vice president may be out of sync with Twitter, but that’s not the Democratic Party.
The Vermont senator is raising a lot of money from activists, but party actors have little incentive to support him.
Biden is facing criticism for his past. Sanders has raised the most money. Warren is not impressing Democrats.
O’Rourke is running for president, passing up on an opportunity to win a Senate seat for Democrats.
Hickenlooper and Inslee are in, Bloomberg and Clinton are out.
Sanders is running. Klobuchar shies away from free college and health care.
Klobuchar and Warren make it official. Democrats are pessimistic about Biden.
Booker is running. Candidates are embracing Medicare-for-all.
Gillibrand and Harris are running. Biden, Bloomberg and Sanders are still undecided.
Warren is running. Brown, Gillibrand and Harris are still testing the waters.
Candidates are quietly courting donors, party bosses, friendly journalists and affiliated interest groups.
Most of the party’s current leaders are in their seventies, but the Democrats have a whole slew of fighting-age presidential contenders.
The battle between the party’s center and left could burst out into the open as we get closer to 2020.