biden is going to get reasse reassessment again. he s not nearly to the left as a lot of his fellow candidates. he s going to have questions about the anita hill hearings, questions about the crime bill, and he s going to seem a little out of step with some of the energy on the party. he comes in obviously with huge name recognition. he will have to go out there and raise money. that s something about beto o rourke, there are lots of questions and he has to fill in the blanks but he can do that. circling back to elizabeth warren, who is a candidate, by the way, the president and his team are salivating again, they feel they can make that contrast better than anyone, but she s having fund-raising struggles which is why there.
lot of his decisions like the anita hill hearings, and in politics when you are explaining, you re not winning. he is talking about being a progressive so he placates the left wing of his party. this is a centrist guy and what he has going for him some would consider reliability is his age, a disproportionate number of voters who are older, the older people tend to vote. they will find a little bit of security in joe biden probably because they do know him or they may have disagreed with him in the past but he is a familiar face so i m not sure that there is many liabilities for him going into this as there are positives. sandra: democratic senator took the time over the weekend to tout his strengths and his record, here he is. i think he has a record that allows him to say making big and bold progressive promises on the campaign trail is one thing. having a real record of actually delivering on those things is
are running. so to the extent klobuchar is going after beto, i like that. i want to know what the differences are. i m really interested in what senator biden will do. i don t know he s going to inspire in the same way some of these new folks are. he s got a lot of baggage with regard to mass incarceration, some of the stuff that got secretary clinton in trouble during her race. and now there s also concerns about the way senator biden performed during the anita hill hearings. and so many people are now outraged properly about what went down with justice kavanaugh. again, that stuff might come back to haunt biden. we ll get to joe bood in jid couple of minutes here. i want to get your reaction on beto o rourke thus far on the campaign trail. not much yet.
it does back up the name identification, and media coverage. what happened to the talk of a fresh face. you go to rallies, voters say i love joe biden. if they want a fresh face, why aren t they telling that po tolls terse? that was interesting numb be i found fascinating. to molly s point earlier, there s a lot in biden s background that will surface whether he becomes a candidate. we wrote in the past week about comments he made in the 1970s that argued against desegregation, i think those will be highlighted once he comes into the race, and also his role in the anita hill hearings. you re rewatching those clips of the hearing, and you see joe
from the anita hill hearings, everything from before is going to seem terribly out of step in 2020. it s tough when he said the cosmos has shifted. now you have to look liberal, a little lefty. you can t look like that middle of the road guy. i have been obsessly reporting on what joe is up to. talking to people out there, i know that people in his inner circle are calling around the country looking for allies to help explain and put in context various aspects of joe biden s past. that means a lot of the organizational work for the run, if he makes it, is about getting people who are willing to step forward and explain, no, no, this is what he meant in 1982 about this, here is what he meant about anita hill, busing, here s how it fits in that context of long ago. you are not winning when you are playing defense. exactly.