Just two days before he’s set for a rematch with flailing foe Kamala Harris, former Vice President Joe Biden cemented his frontrunner status with a new Quinnipiac poll pushing his RealClearPolitics average back to a comfortable 31.3%. Biden is back to besting runners-up Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders by more than double their vote shares and securing a 20 point lead over Harris.
Outside of Twitter, Biden’s return to prominence wasn’t entirely unpredictable. After all, Harris didn’t tackle a widely held concern from voters, such as Biden’s age or even his position on federally legalizing marijuana, but rather federally mandated busing, a policy Harris herself even conceded she doesn’t support. Plus Biden benefited from the well-dressed extremism of Harris and the left-lane of the party taking a backseat to the unpracticed extremism of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez her ilk. Most importantly, Biden took a backburner on the headlines, a strategy that would surely carry our current president to re-election.
