Perhaps the alternate headline could read something like, “Jill Biden offers fragile electability defense of husband, Joe Biden,” or similar. The backstory is that speaking at a campaign event on Monday, Dr. Jill Biden offered Democratic primary voters a rather blunt and meager train of logic for why her husband is the best-positioned candidate to take on President Trump in 2020. The bottom line, for Jill Biden, is about electability and “holding your nose” to pull the lever for her husband even if you might like another candidate better.<\/p>\n
Nothing about her husband’s accomplishments or ability to stand firm on the issues, just the basic argument that Joe Biden, unlike the rest of the field, according to Jill, has the best chance of beating Donald Trump<\/a>:<\/p>\n
The New York Times reports<\/a> that Jill Biden’s argument is along the lines of the narrative being pushed by the Biden campaign in their advertising as well:<\/p>\n
Biden is still holding<\/a> the right type of primary voters who continue to stick with him despite continued gaffes and lackluster debate performances. The real test will be September when more Democratic voters start getting serious about which candidate they feel can truly bring it to Donald Trump next year. Biden’s electability argument has started to take on water, but the ship is still sailing. However, Jill Biden’s defense of her husband almost sounded like a partial admission that there are “better” candidates in the field, but they don’t stand as good a chance as her husband does in 2020.<\/p>\n
That’s a tough sell, and at some point, other campaigns will begin to chip away at the “most electable<\/a>” strategy and push back against the same narrative that nominated Hillary in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1030,1031,1062],"tags":[1431,43,1835,1353,1896],"class_list":["post-35396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1030","category-democrats-2020","category-politics","tag-biden","tag-democratic-primary","tag-electability","tag-election-2020","tag-jill-biden","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"yoast_head":"\n
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