Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Joe Biden, the 2020 Campaign’s Missing Man

Joe Biden, the 2020 Campaign’s Missing Man
Excerpt: If you look at the Joe Biden YouTube page, the first thing you notice is that most of the videos don’t feature Joe Biden very much. He’s not in the livestream of the national grassroots mobilization launch. He doesn’t make a cameo in the Chinese-Americans for Biden video featuring Olympian Michelle Kwan, Yo-Yo Ma, and several members of Congress. He doesn’t appear in the “Out for Biden” video featuring Jill Biden and Chasten Buttigieg. Biden offers a very short voice-over for an “Educators Hero” video featuring Arizona’s 2019 teacher of the year, Kareem Neal. One video features Scranton, Pa., residents talking about Biden. A one-minute video emphasizes “the story of Black America is the story of America” and that “just like our ancestors who stood up to the violent racists of a generation ago, we will stand up to this president and say, ‘no more,’ because America is better than him.” Biden did record a pre-taped brief introduction to the “Todos Con Biden Charla [chat] with actress Aubrey Plaza.” (It turns out that at age 16, Plaza was a representative at the Joe Biden Youth Leadership Conference in Delaware!)

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