The Right Way to Think About ‘Electability’
Set aside intuition and look at how Joe Biden matches up against Donald Trump on specific issues.
The highest priority for Democrats in 2020 is a challenger who can beat President Donald Trump. Many believe that Joe Biden is the candidate best able to do it.
They may be right.
Biden has excellent name recognition rooted in his association with a popular two-term president. And no one doubts that he has the experience to do the job. Then again, skeptics retort, the former vice president doesn’t energize democratic socialists, woke identitarians, or at , “but to go with the candidate who excites them in the hope that excitement itself will be contagious.”
