Should Biden Run?

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

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New York Times, Journalism, News, Society & Culture, Ross Douthat

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🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Is Joe Biden the Democrats’ best hope to beat Trump in 2020? Or is he woefully behind the times? Ross Douthat, Michelle Goldberg and David Leonhardt disagree about the former vice president's potential run for POTUS. Then the columnists debate what America's sex recession means for the country. For background reading on this episode, visit nytimes.com/theargument.

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0:00.0	I'm Michelle Goldberg.
0:01.6	I'm Ross Douthit.
0:02.6	I'm David Leonhardt, and this is the argument.
0:05.8	This week is Joe Biden what the Democratic Party needs right now?
0:09.7	Or should he step aside?
0:10.7	I'm Joe Biden, and yes, I am out of step with where a lot of leaders in the Democratic
0:15.7	Party are going.
0:16.7	Then, America's sexual recession.
0:19.6	What is causing it?
0:20.6	Young men need to step up.
0:24.2	And finally, a recommendation.
0:26.7	He was Stephen King, baby.
0:31.0	Joe Biden did not have a good week.
0:34.9	Former vice president Joe Biden is now accused of inappropriate touching.
0:39.6	Which then led to a big discussion about whether Biden was a relic from another era.
0:44.5	Away from the media scrum, though, Biden still looks like the strongest Democrat in the
0:48.9	2020 field.
0:50.4	Huge numbers of voters say they like him, especially Democrats.
0:54.2	He still hasn't announced whether he's running, but he seems likely to do so in coming
0:57.4	weeks.
0:58.4	In previous episodes on this show, we focused on other candidates, Kamala Harris, Bernie
1:02.5	Sanders, Elizabeth Warren.
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