It’s been reasonable to suspect he’ll run for the Presidency, and that now appears to be confirmed. He’s run twice before. This time, he’s been Vice President for 8 years.
If he does, Clinton is done. Biden doesn’t have any major scandals or suspicion to overcome. He’s been in politics for nearly four decades, and everybody knows him. He’s got the lock on New England and he’ll sweep the labor unions. He’s safe, charismatic, and connected. He doesn’t even really have to campaign for it.
Clinton will fall by the wayside. Bernie Sanders isn’t going to happen. The party is going to nominate Biden in the primaries.
We can make all the jokes we want about Biden’s gaffes. The fact is, this guy gets stuff done on gun control. He wrote the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which we know as the “assault weapons ban.” Though the Act had a whole slew of provisions, Biden made it clear that it was about “guns, guns, guns.” Continued...