Opinion: Is the new Democratic Party too woke to nominate Joe Biden?
Former vice president Joe Biden in Boston on April 18. By David Byler David Byler Data analyst and political columnist focusing on elections, polling, demographics and statistics Email Bio Follow Data analyst and political columnist April 24 at 3:27 PM Joe Biden might seem like the 2020 candidate of anachronism.
By this standard, many Democrats have quickly become increasingly woke over the last few years, but the party’s evolution isn’t universal. This state of flux actually makes Biden a potentially good fit for where the party is — even if he fails to represent its ultimate destination. Crime and policing issues, an area where Biden’s record in the Senate diverges from contemporary conversations in the Democratic Party, also provoke division. YouGov found that 81 percent of Democrats believe that discrimination against blacks by the police and the criminal-justice system is a problem.
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