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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Is Joe Biden the Future of the Democratic Party?

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

President, Barack, News, Politics, Wnyc, Obama, Lizza, Washington, Wickenden

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🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden’s pitch to voters has been remarkably consistent: he says he can unite older voters, people of color, and moderates into a coalition that can defeat Donald Trump. A series of gaffes, concerns about his voting record, and disappointing results in the early primaries seemed to doom Biden’s candidacy. But big victories in South Carolina and on Super Tuesday have given new credence to his claim that he’s the best person to take on Trump in November. Evan Osnos joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how Biden became the Democratic front-runner and how he’ll go about winning over skeptical young, progressive voters.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about

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politics. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

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For months, as Joe Biden stumbled through gaffes and questions about his voting record and

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disappointing results in the early primaries, he's been making the same pitch to the American people.

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He can unite older voters, people of color, and moderates into a coalition that can defeat Donald

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Trump. The first indication that he was right came last Saturday in South Carolina,

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where he won every county and captured more than twice as many votes as his nearest competitor.

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Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar quickly suspended their campaigns.

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And then came Super Tuesday.

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