After much deliberation, Barack Obama’s right-hand man has thrown his hat into the presidential ring
Former US vice-president Joe Biden. Picture: AFP/SAUL LOEBFormer vice-president Joe Biden, a moderate Democrat who has made his appeal to the disaffected working-class voters who deserted the party in 2016 a key part of his political identity, is set to launch his third run for the White House on Thursday.
Still, he starts as the leader of the pack in opinion polls of a Democratic field that now will total 20 contenders seeking the chance to challenge President Donald Trump, the likely Republican nominee, in November 2020. Biden struggled in his response to the concerns, at times joking about his behaviour. But ultimately, he apologised and said he recognised standards for personal conduct had evolved in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
Biden’s candidacy will offer early hints about whether Democrats are more interested in finding a centrist who can win over the white working-class voters who went for Trump in 2016, or someone who can fire up the party’s diverse progressive wing, such as senators Kamala Harris of California, Bernie Sanders of Vermont or Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.Biden’s long history in the Senate, where he was a leading voice on foreign policy, will give liberal activists plenty to criticise.
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