Biden His Time Again

I gotta tell ya, I thought Joe Biden was left for dead on the side of the road to the White House, and I was actually looking very hard at Michael Bloomberg for awhile, but the former Vice President seems to be picking up momentum at just the time he needs it.

South Carolina congressman James Clyburn, the highest-ranking black member of the House of Representatives, endorsed Biden publicly yesterday, and after struggling in the polls against Bernie Sanders and the insufferable Tom Steyer in the Palmetto State, Biden found himself leading in the South Carolina primary in a new Clemson University poll by eighteen points.  Despite a few gaffes in Tuesday's debate that could only be called Bidenesque - he grossly overstated the number of Americans killed since 2007 as a result of gun violence by tens of millions - he came across as confident, knowledgeable, and strong.  He demonstrated the indignation and outrage against the Trump administration that led him to campaign for the Presidency in 2020 in the first place.  If he wins big in South Carolina that could change everything about the 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign.  If he loses big in South Carolina, that too could change everything about the 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign.

Bloomberg did better in the debate, and he regained some of his footing in my opinion, but his mere existence continues to irk Elizabeth Warren and distracts from some of the more shocking statements made about Fidel Castro and the Nicaraguan Sandinistas coming from Bernie Sanders.  Sanders is proving to be something of a loose cannon that could fire a volley into the Democrats' own chances of winning the Presidency in November, and either Biden or Bloomberg will likely be in a better than position going against Sanders than Pete Buttigieg or Amy Klobuchar after Super Tuesday on March 3 depending on what happens on this rare Leap Day primary in South Carolina.  After seeing this debate, I feel a little better about the Democrats' chances of unseating Trump.

Until I see that the the Republican National Committee has twenty dollars for every one dollar the Democratic National Committee has.  That's where Bloomberg's money will come in handy, whether he's the party's presidential nominee of not.