You could be right. Hillary was the favorite 20 months out and she was left wandering in a forest looking for friends, lol.1. Still, Biden will have to confront several vulnerabilities. He is famously prone to gaffes and angered some in the LGBT community last week when he called Vice President Mike Pence a “decent guy.”
2. The decades in public life that he often portrays as an asset also carries challenges. The Washington Post, for instance, reported on Thursday that Biden opposed bussing children in the mid-1970s as schools sought to further integrate classrooms.
Joe Biden’s 2020 odds may improve with Brown and Bloomberg not running
3. Separately, a CNN focus group earlier this week rejected Biden outright, with some prospective voters in the group saying the party needed “bold, strong leadership,” as one put it, “and you’ll find that in the progressives.”
4. None of Biden’s obvious strengths have erased the real doubts about his candidacy, and he will face a seemingly endless flood of questions about his fundraising, his propensity for gaffes, his age and his centrist politics if he enters the race.
5. CNN ran a piece about Biden’s 1993 Senate floor bill where he pushed the controversial crime bill, America Rising, the Republican super PAC pushing opposition research, highlighted that Biden warned of “predators on our streets” who were “beyond the pale.”
Officials there say the left wing of the party will ironically play an ally of sorts when they dig into Biden’s Senate record, including the crime bill, the vote for the war in Iraq and his comments to Anita Hill when he presided over the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Biden is front-runner, but many Dems doubt he can win
how many front runners 20 months prior to the election end up with the nomination?
Trump was not the front runner 20 months out
Obama was not the front runner 20 months out
Bush II was not the front runner 20 months out
Clinton was not the front runner 20 months out
being the front runner now is a kiss of death