Joe Biden has joined a crowded Democratic field in which many candidates have staked out progressive positions on an array of issues.
Biden made his announcement hours before a major campaign fundraiser was to take place in Philadelphia on Thursday. His first campaign event, union-themed, is expected to be held Monday in Pittsburgh, a Democratic city whose suburbs and exurbs are filled with the sort of voters who abandoned the Democratic Party to side with Trump in 2016.
He is scheduled to appear Friday on “The View,” in what the ABC program said in a tweet would be his first television interview since announcing his candidacy.
Biden, 76, who served for eight years as the second-in-command to the last Democrat to successfully seek the presidency, holds a strong position in early polls, but the trajectory of his campaign is uncertain.
Creepy Joe Biden
Creepy Joe's 1987 campaign was derailed by an oppo-research dump where he was caught red-handed lifting the campaign stump speech of a British Labour Party politician from a coal-mining family in Wales.
That was Creepy Joe — basically claiming to be a Welsh coal miner.
Joe Biden's 'inappropriate touching' sure hasn't hurt his support among womenHowever, as the media continues to speculate, the allegations are not changing how women, a key constituency, are feeling about Biden. New polling out of key early states of New Hampshire and Iowa show that his high polling in the crowded Democratic field is powered by women. Despite the fact that there are six female candidates in the race and allegations he inappropriately touched women, Biden sits atop the Democratic primary contest because of support from females.
Creepy Joe was first elected to the Senate in 1972 — when Bernie Sanders was an unemployed hippie, writing his fantasies for that weekly in Vermont about how women fantasize about being raped by three men at once.
Despite his advanced age, Biden tries to stay au courant. He understands the demographic changes in the US: