Wednesday, January 15, 2020

If Biden wins the primary he wins by default

I don't understand why we keep having debates with all these candidates who refuse to engage the front-runner. Especially when the front runner is Biden, who performs terribly whenever he is challenged in person and thus would be an easy target.

Maybe they are worried that it will look unseemly to attack a widely respected former vice president and to make him look incoherently indignant like he always does when he is seriously questioned. But avoiding those attacks means that the public is not seeing how badly Biden performs in a critical skill he will need in the general election and presidency. The primary is supposed to be a kind of vetting. Why are Biden's challengers avoiding that role?