So Joe Biden's not a pussy grabber. Is that really good enough? | Moira Donegan

After being accused of inappropriate touching, the excuses being made for Joe Biden are disappointing

The pretext that Joe Biden is not yet running for president is beginning to wear thin. Biden, who has lost two previous Democratic presidential primaries, has been the presumed frontrunner of the 2020 contest for months, with his name polling strongly alongside other candidates’ and his supposed status as the only Democrat who can beat Donald Trump in a general election repeated ad nauseam.

His camp has behaved in shortsighted ways that imply a frontrunner’s arrogance, from a botched rollout of a plan to appeal to progressives by floating the idea of having Stacey Abrams as his running mate (Abrams declined), to the drawn-out political stagecraft of Biden’s postponed presidential campaign announcement, in which he has insulted the nation’s intelligence by pretending to be vexed or uncertain about doing something that we all know he is going to do.

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