While Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro announced 2020 exploratory committees this past week, former Vice President Joe Biden, who hasn’t even announced his run, is making all the headlines.
On Thursday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told CNN that Biden would be her candidate in 2020. Just the day before, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., said Biden has “the best case” to be the Democratic nominee, saying, “He brings the most of the secret ingredient you need to win for a Democrat, which is credibility.”
Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright told the Washington Examiner that, in light of Cuomo’s comments, Biden has the infrastructure in place to launch a 2020 bid.
“Vice President Biden has a built-in constituency because of who he is and the policies he’s advocated for in the past,” Seawright, who’s the CEO and founder of Blueprint Strategy, said.
He went on to say that because of his campaigning for Democratic candidates over the past decade, he has built the relationships needed to make dividends come a presidential run. However, Seawright did concede that the Democratic Party, as well as politics in general, of today is much different from the days of old.
“There was a point in time of our political history where experience matters for the top job in the United States,” Seawright explained. “However, we live in a time period now where it seems like the more experience, or the more political miles you have in your engine, the less likely people will want to drive your political car.”
