If none of Biden’s rivals were nipping at his heels — if his lead were bigger, with Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sanders further back in the single digits with the rest of the pack — Biden might be able to ride out the storm of the next several months, prevail decisively in the primaries, and mount a strong challenge to Trump that even the smarmiest sewage-spewing campaign couldn’t sink.
But Biden won’t be able to pull it off. His lead remains, but it’s not enormous. And he and his family are about to face an onslaught of accusations from a cornered master of the art of excrement-slinging. Some of it is bound to stick. When it does, Biden will no longer look like the surest bet to take on the president.
He will look, instead, like the second coming of Hillary Clinton. And no one will be very excited about the prospect of trying to take down Donald Trump with a campaign led by “Crooked Joe.”
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