Five reasons Biden isn’t electable

Justin Ward
8 min readMar 16, 2020
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Joe Biden’s entire sales pitch is that he’s the guy best suited to take on Donald Trump. But pull on any loose thread and the case for Biden falls apart. He’s taken to calling himself an Obama-Biden Democrat—and once an “Obiden-Bama Democrat”—tapping into Democrats’ nostalgia for the status quo ante Trump.

But Biden can’t even recreate the losing Clinton coalition much less the one that brought Obama to…

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Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD