It may seem hard to believe now, but three things were happening when Democrats decided to nominate Joe Biden for president in 2020. The first was buyer’s remorse. Biden was dissuaded from running four years earlier, in effect ceding the nomination to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton went on to lose to Donald Trump.
The thought in Democratic circles was perhaps Scranton Joe, with his strong labor union ties, would have been able to beat Trump in the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Had that been the case, Biden would have become president rather than Trump and would have been the incumbent president at the start of the 2020 Democratic primaries.
A second factor that made Biden look relatively appealing
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