Early polls showing Joseph Biden leading the large field of Democrats who are potential candidates for president in 2020 may leave some wondering what the Democrats could possibly be thinking.
Against President Trump, the Democrats would match up their own East Coast white male candidate in his 70s who doesn’t drink alcohol and didn’t serve in Vietnam? It would seem to violate Phyllis Schlafly’s “choice not an echo” theory of how American presidents are chosen.
The polls, though, are picking up a truth perhaps not immediately obvious to casual observers, which is that a strong case can be made for Biden as the Democratic nominee in 2020. He’s something unusual in presidential politics: a candidate who can excite the party’s base while also winning back independents and voters in swing states and swing districts—the voters and places that supported Obama in 2012 but Trump in 2016.
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