My Goodness, Elizabeth Warren!

3. Joe Biden

The polls aren’t his biggest problem.

This entry is mostly superfluous: Read the above entry about Elizabeth Warren’s week, consider the opposite of it, and you have Joe Biden’s week. He is losing his lead, and Warren is taking it. It’s pretty straightforward. But there’s another, more important long-term problem for Biden that developed this week: In rising to defend Biden’s honor by starting impeachment proceedings over the president’s efforts to dig up dirt on him, Democrats have ensured that the Bidens’ relationships and business dealings in Ukraine will also be in the news, hourly, for the next however many months. Fairly or not, this would qualify as baggage heading into a general election contest, and it might give Democratic primary voters reason to reconsider his chief strength: perceived electability. Fairly or not, the Ukraine dispute may lead primary voters to coolly determine that Democrats should nominate an alternative candidate not involved in it one way or another. And, HMM, who might that alternative be?

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