Risk or safety? The dividing line between Joe Biden and his challengers.
Posted on AllSides September 11th, 2019
From The Left
Joe Biden’s first Iowa television ad this summer flashed four quick photos of the former vice president with Barack Obama, along with a tagline about as far as possible from their old “hope and change” rallying cry.
“Strong, steady, stable leadership,” intoned a gruff narrator.
He may be running on the Obama record, but the promise of Biden’s third presidential campaign is entirely different. Despite an uneven performance, he has found success by pitching himself as the safe, comforting and electable caretaker, an implicit contrast to potentially riskier rivals who...
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