On Wednesday, former Vice President Joe Biden’s younger brother said Biden could “absolutely” run for president in 2020.
When SiriusXM host Michael Smerconish asked Frank Biden whether Joe Biden had one more presidential run in him, Frank Biden said “absolutely. Absolutely.”
“Why anyone would think otherwise, I don’t know,” Frank Biden added.
Biden stoked speculation about a potential 2020 run when he recently launched his “American Possibilities” political action committee.
As Breitbart News has reported, Biden may be able to win over working-class voters against Trump in a way Hillary Clinton never could. And he has explicitly criticized his fellow Democrats for not doing more to appeal to working-class voters.
But Biden is trying to have it both ways. Because the former vice president knows he must appeal to Democrats of color to win the party’s nomination, he has also used his recent commencement speeches to praise the “Black Lives Matter” movement and slam working-class voters who voted for Trump for being drawn to nationalism and “hate speech” while blaming “the other” for all of their problems.
During a recent speech at Cornell University, Biden said “there are a lot of folks out there who both are afraid and susceptible to this kind of negative appeal.”
“The immigrant, the minority, the transgender–anyone not like me became a scapegoat,” he continued. “Just build a wall. Keep Muslims from coming into the United States.”
His brother also said on Wednesday that “Joe is one of the few people in the United States that commands respect from the right and the left, based on the fact that you may not like what Joe says, but you can take to the bank whatever he says is true.”
During his unsuccessful bid for his party’s presidential nomination 1988, Biden was caught plagiarizing parts of his stump speech and was forced to withdraw from the race.
As Breitbart News has reported, Biden may have also been misleading audiences for years by claiming to have played college football at Delaware.