If Joe Biden Runs, Bernie Sanders Wins

By Published on September 12, 2015

If Vice President Joe Biden announces he is running for president, the big winner, by far, will be Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Mr. Biden will take far more votes from Hillary Clinton than he would take from Mr. Sanders, who might well vault into first place in a three-way race that would quickly eliminate all other Democratic contenders.

The current wave of favorable press that the Draft Biden campaign is receiving would subside and reverse shortly after a Biden announcement. It would soon be apparent that the Draft Biden effort is a limited campaign, without strong grassroots support, and not a movement that would have any appeal to current Sanders supporters, who would remain rock-solid in support of Mr. Sanders.

What most in the media have long missed in the 2016 campaign is that Bernie Sanders is the most true, authentic, passionate and principled outsider populist in an election in which outsiders are favored over insiders, and populists are favored over establishment voices in both parties.

The problem with a potential Biden candidacy is that while the Vice-President gave a stirring populist speech on Labor Day, decrying the unfair economy and expressing his indignation at the injustice of economic inequality, during his four decades in the Senate he carried a lot of water for big banks and Wall Street firms.

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