Joe Biden needs more than virtue to win. He will have to pick an exciting vice president
about 5 years in The guardian
Trump’s blunders have left the Democratic candidate in with a chance, if he chooses an inspiring running mate.
On the slender shoulders of 77-year-old Joe Biden has fallen a heavy burden: responsibility for defeating Donald Trump and resetting America’s course. Whether the issue is racial injustice, the climate crisis, inequality, Middle East peace or democracy’s future, Biden alone stands between the US and four more years of divisive turmoil at home and dangerous confrontation abroad.
Will he win? He certainly wants to. After 36 years in the Senate and eight playing second fiddle to Barack Obama, Biden is the nearly man of US politics. It’s his last shot at the top spot. Yet his conventional centrist outlook, empathetic style and courteous, old-school mien recall a different age. Is he the man to lead the necessary, radical re-ordering of a post-Covid world in the teeth of Trump’s bottomless malignity? Continue reading...
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