First the media said Joe Biden, somehow adored by Americans across the political spectrum for half a century, was going to have a fatal #MeToo problem. Then they said Biden, the affable sidekick to our nation’s first black president, was going to have a fatal race problem. Now they’re saying Biden, who’d be running in a general election against a professional Twitter troll, has a gaffe problem, and we’re half a news cycle away from the age problem emerging as the marquee talking point.

Yet Biden’s average polling hasn’t budged below the the 26% mark this entire primary season, and despite some early errors in faltering under the fire of the Left, Biden’s first television spot proves that he’s playing to win the White House, not woke appreciation points.