Beto and Biden biding their time: A strategy

Published March 18, 2019 4:04pm ET



The 2020 presidential primaries are already shaping up to be a bloodbath. And at this point, only former Vice President Joe Biden and unemployed former Rep. Robert Francis O’Rourke seem to get the long-game — that there’s still more to go after the primaries are over.

The JV team of contenders have already let the far-left cajole them into endorsing the Sen. Bernie Sanders-backed Medicare For All Act that would abolish private insurance. They followed the Democratic Party’s Pied Piper from the Bronx into Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s trap of endorsing the Green New Deal, a nonbinding resolution costing at $93 trillion in its first decade. Nearly every single senator running for president — Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kamala Harris of California, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York — has emphatically endorsed both, providing the Trump re-election campaign millions of dollars of ad clips for free.

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