{"id":12355,"date":"2020-05-07T15:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T22:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12355"},"modified":"2020-05-07T15:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T22:23:36","slug":"biden-has-become-an-albatross-for-the-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/biden-has-become-an-albatross-for-the-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Has Become an Albatross for the Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Biden&nbsp;is the apparent Democratic presidential nominee. After all, he had a seemingly insurmountable lead in delegates going into the rescheduled August convention in the postponed Democratic primary race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden was winning the nomination largely because he was not the socialist Bernie Sanders, who terrified the Democratic establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden was also not Michael Bloomberg. The multibillionaire former New York City mayor jumped into the race when Biden faltered and Sanders seemed unstoppable. But Bloomberg spent $1 billion only to confirm that he was haughty, a poor debater, and an even worse campaigner. He often appeared to be an apologist for China and seemed clueless about the interior of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The least offensive candidate left standing was Biden. Many Democratic primary voters initially had written him off as an inept retread, a blowhard, and an impediment to the leftward, identity-politics trajectory of the newly progressive Democratic Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the campaign trail, Biden insulted several voters, using insults such as \u201cfat,\u201d \u201cdamn liar,\u201d and, weirdly, \u201clying dog-faced pony soldier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/05\/joe-biden-albatross-for-democrats-2020-election\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Joe Biden&nbsp;is the apparent Democratic presidential nominee. After all, he had a seemingly insurmountable lead in delegates going into the rescheduled August convention in the postponed Democratic primary race. Biden was winning the nomination largely because he was not the socialist Bernie Sanders, who terrified the Democratic establishment. Biden [&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-3dh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12259,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-mysterious-rise-fall-and-rise-of-joe-biden\/","url_meta":{"origin":12355,"position":0},"title":"The Mysterious Rise, Fall, and Rise of Joe Biden","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review For\u00a0most of early 2019, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden \u2014 the declared custodian of liberalism who would continue the Obama glory years \u2014 seemed unstoppable. 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