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Trump’s News POLITICS
Biden Has Become an
Albatross for the Democrats
By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON | newsmax
Biden often appeared more the media ignored
confused. t h e m , t h e m o r e
embarrassing the media's
He was occasionally utter hypocrisy became.
unable to remember names, Journalists had torn apart
places, or dates. Biden Supreme Court nominee
would try to speak ex Brett Kavanaugh over
tempore but seemingly
J O E B I D E N i s t h e street gang with a six-foot allegations of sexual
forget what he was trying to
apparent Democratic chain or slammed a bully's assault, after all.
say.
presidential nominee. After face into a store counter.
So suddenly the press
all, he had a seemingly More recently, he taunted
The coronavirus epidemic decided that Biden was no
insurmountable lead in President Trump with tough-
and subsequent lockdown longer worth shielding. Yet
delegates going into the guy boasts about taking him
seemed to offer rest for the change of heart was not
r e s c h e d u l e d A u g u s t behind the proverbial gym
Biden. But the more he entirely for fear of appearing
convention in the postponed and beating him up.
r e c u p e r a t e d f r o m hypocritical. Rather, the
Democratic primary race. campaigning and sent out
Biden has been unable to media seems terrified of
video communiques from
Biden was winning the keep his hands off women. Biden's increasingly obvious
his basement, the more he
nomination largely because Even his supporters cringed cognitive decline.
appeared to confirm that his
he was not the socialist when he was seen sniffing
problem was not simple In other words, the media
Bernie Sanders, who the hair, rubbing the
exhaustion or age but real was most certainly not going
terrified the Democratic shoulders, or whispering
cognitive impairment. to be degraded on behalf of
establishment. i n t o t h e e a r s o f
a nominee who may no
unsuspecting females,
Biden was also not some of them minors. With the Democratic longer seem viable.
Michael Bloomberg. The nomination a lock, Biden
assumed liberal reporters In the three months before
multibillionaire former New Stranger still, Biden waxed
w o u l d a l l o w h i m t o the Democratic National
York City mayor jumped into on about his commitment to
campaign as a virtual Convention, Americans will
the race when Biden faltered the #MeToo movement. The
candidate. They would witness some of the
and Sanders seemed handsy Biden has insisted
forget his lapses and ignore s t r a n g e s t p o l i t i c a l
u n s t o p p a b l e . B u t that women who made
p r i o r c o n t r o v e r s i e s , scrambling in presidential
Bloomberg spent $1 billion accusations of sexual
including the sexual-assault campaign history. Simply
only to confirm that he was harassment must be
allegations by Tara Reade, a p u t , h o w d o e s t h e
haughty, a poor debater, and believed.
former aide. Democratic Party cut from
an even worse campaigner.
He often appeared to be an T h e m o r e H o u s e At first the media complied its neck an albatross — one
apologist for China and Democrats attacked Donald — as it always had with who has the most delegates
seemed clueless about the Trump for supposedly Biden's troublesome habit of but is likely not up to serving
interior of the United States. pressuring Ukraine to violating the personal space as president?
investigate Biden's wheeler-
of women, his bizarre put- And how to do the deed
The least offensive dealer son Hunter, the more
downs on the campaign trail, w i t h o u t i n c i t i n g t h e
candidate left standing was Biden's own suspect
his exaggerated he-man m o r i b u n d S a n d e r s
Biden. Many Democratic dealings with Ukraine
stories, his mental lapses, campaign and his army of
primary voters initially had surfaced.
and his dealings with Bernie bros?
written him off as an inept
retread, a blowhard, and an Such scrutiny followed Ukraine. A host of Democratic
impediment to the leftward, from Biden's boast, caught Again, to the Democratic donors and operatives
identity-politics trajectory of on video, that he had establishment, Biden was w o u l d l i k e B i d e n t o
the newly progressive leveraged Ukraine by far preferable to Sanders. disappear, clearing the way
Democratic Party. threatening to withhold $1 Had the socialist Sanders for a replacement such as
billion in loan guarantees
won the nomina-tion, he New York governor Andrew
On the campaign trail, u n l e s s a U k r a i n i a n
likely would have wrecked C u o m o , f a i l e d 2 0 1 6
Biden insulted several prosecutor was fired. That
the Democratic Party in nominee Hillary Clinton, or
voters, using insults such as prosecutor had wanted to
2020. former first lady Michelle
“fat,” “damn liar,” and, investigate the Ukrainian
Obama.
weirdly, “lying dog-faced company for which Hunter
But Biden misjudged the
pony soldier.” Biden worked.
liberal media. Reporters But even if Democrats
were at first willing to know why Biden must go,
Long ago, he spun tall During the year-long rise,
overlook his liabilities. But they haven't a clue about
tales about how in his youth fall, and rise of his
the more Reade persisted in when or how.
he had taken on a Delaware campaign, the 77-year-old
her accusations and the
