{"id":12259,"date":"2020-03-23T11:49:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T18:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12259"},"modified":"2020-03-23T11:49:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T18:49:37","slug":"the-mysterious-rise-fall-and-rise-of-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-mysterious-rise-fall-and-rise-of-joe-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious Rise, Fall, and Rise of Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For&nbsp;most of early 2019, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden \u2014 the declared custodian of liberalism who would continue the Obama glory years \u2014 seemed unstoppable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He led all other rivals for months. Biden seemed above the fray. Many Democrats saw the pre-debate and pre-election race for the nomination as more of a Biden coronation than a contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the summer and fall debates of 2019, Biden was occasionally confused about dates, places, names, and facts. In public appearances, he often seemed grouchy or dazed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden was once faulted for being too handsy in his interactions with women; now he was being criticized for losing his temper and insulting people during campaign stops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden dived in the polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/03\/joe-biden-campaign-known-quantity-compared-other-democrats\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review For&nbsp;most of early 2019, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden \u2014 the declared custodian of liberalism who would continue the Obama glory years \u2014 seemed unstoppable. He led all other rivals for months. Biden seemed above the fray. Many Democrats saw the pre-debate and pre-election race for the nomination as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3bJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12355,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/biden-has-become-an-albatross-for-the-democrats\/","url_meta":{"origin":12259,"position":0},"title":"Biden Has Become an Albatross for the Democrats","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 7, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Joe Biden\u00a0is the apparent Democratic presidential nominee. 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