The adult has entered the race.
Because he is already the front runner and because he is now officially in the others will begin their attacks.
He is too old, he is too white, he is too male, and more than forty years ago he was against "forced bussing" (so was I, and I still am, though he is not).
He is too centrist, he is too cozy with rich Democrats (the ones O and Hillary were cozy with), and did I mention he is old, white, and a guy?
MSNBC says his announcement was pretty much entirely an attack on Trump.
Also, a spokesman for the Obama's had fulsome praise for him, right off the bat.
On MSNBC a spokesperson for Joe said he actually asked O not to endorse him outright, right away.
[Update. At a train station, Joe confirmed that. At the same train station, Joe strode out of his way, with no security escort, to shake hands with some guys in hard hats, and then strode to his car, shaking hands with some cops. Big smiles all around. So of course the cameras followed him and those pictures are all over TV.]
He's going to spend a long, wrap-around weekend in Pennsylvania stealing Trump voters.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced Thursday that he would seek the Democratic nomination to challenge President Trump in 2020, marshaling his experience and global stature in a bid to lead a party increasingly defined by a younger generation that might be skeptical of his age and ideological moderation.
Mr. Biden, 76, is set to offer himself as a levelheaded leader for a country wracked by political conflict, a rationale he believes could attract a broad cross-section of voters who want to move on from Mr. Trump.
In a three-and-a-half minute video laying out his reasons for running, Mr. Biden chose not to talk about policy issues or his biography but instead began by recalling the white supremacist march through Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 and a counterprotest, and Mr. Trump’s comment that there were “very fine people on both sides.”
In that moment, Mr. Biden said, “I knew the threat to our nation was unlike any I’d ever seen in my lifetime.”
“We are in the battle for the soul of this nation,” Mr. Biden said.
“I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time.
"But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation, who we are, and I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”
Trump responded with a tweet, right away.
Welcome to the race Sleepy Joe.
I only hope you have the intelligence, long in doubt, to wage a successful primary campaign.
It will be nasty - you will be dealing with people who truly have some very sick & demented ideas.
But if you make it, I will see you at the Starting Gate!
Joe Biden Is the Front-Runner — Over Democrats, and Donald Trump
A new Morning Consult/Politico poll conducted April 19-21 among 1,992 registered voters found Biden leading the president by 8 percentage points in a hypothetical matchup, 42 percent to 34 percent.
Biden has a significant edge over Trump among women (17 points), millennials (22 points) and independents (10 points).
The national, online survey has a 2-point margin of error.
The national, online survey has a 2-point margin of error.
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Along with his advantage over Trump, Biden has held a consistent lead in Morning Consult’s weekly tracking among likely Democratic primary voters.
Three in 10 of those voters said the Delawarean was their top pick in the latest poll, followed by 24 percent who chose Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
(Biden’s 6-point advantage is similar to his average 7-point lead over the Democratic socialist in the 12 tracking polls.)
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