Former Vice President Joe Biden came out swinging after his devastating fourth-place showing in the Iowa Democratic caucus but many observers say his front-runner status was a media-driven myth from the beginning.
Biden decried Pete Buttigieg’s inexperience and blasted the far-left appeal of Bernie Sanders. He told voters at a New Hampshire campaign rally this week, “Donald Trump is desperate to pin the label of ‘socialist’ on our party. We can’t let him do that.”
Clinging to the media narrative that New Hampshire is a lock for his campaign, Biden told supporters in Somersworth, New Hampshire this week, “I’m going to fight for this nomination and I’m going to fight for it here in New Hampshire and in Nevada and then South Carolina. I’m counting on New Hampshire. We are going to come back.”
Bernie Sander’s top advisor Jeff Sanders refuted Biden’s “electability” claim saying, “I’m not going to say anything negative about the vice president, but if your rationale is electability, then you have to win elections.”
Biden’s surrogates are pressing the question of who is most likely to carry the party to victory nationally but one more loss like Iowa may make it all but impossible to say the answer is Joe Biden.
Watch the video to learn why Saagar Enjeti & Krystal Ball of The Hill say they are not surprised by Biden’s implosion and why it’s not all that sudden.
