Creepy uncle Joe Biden 2020?

Let Biden run — and face the consequences

Former Vice President Joe Biden talks to Stephanie Carter as her husband Ash Carter becomes the new Secretary of Defense.
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The Democrats are starting to feel a bit of wind at their backs. Their lead in the generic congressional ballot poll has opened up to double digits. Twenty-six-year-old lesbians are winning special elections for the state Senate in deep red Oklahoma. The only thing the party is missing is a leader to follow into battle.

That's not for lack of potential candidates. There's Bernie Sanders, the close-but-not-that-close runner up from 2016, with his army of impassioned amateurs. There are populist senators, like Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown, who know how to speak to economic grievance; popular governors like Deval Patrick and Andrew Cuomo with a proven executive track record; and celebrity business people like Oprah Winfrey and Mark Zuckerberg with essentially bottomless personal resources and a profound understanding of how to operate in the contemporary media landscape.

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Noah Millman

Noah Millman is a screenwriter and filmmaker, a political columnist and a critic. From 2012 through 2017 he was a senior editor and featured blogger at The American Conservative. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Politico, USA Today, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, Foreign Policy, Modern Age, First Things, and the Jewish Review of Books, among other publications. Noah lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.