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‘He Can't Survive Twitter’: Biden’s Scandal-Heavy Past is an Election Weakness

Former US Vice President Joe Biden is widely considered the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president. However, his chances of winning the 2020 presidential election are miniscule, given the numerous controversies he has embroiled himself in over the years, Jim Kavanagh, the editor of The Polemicist, told Sputnik.
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"They're [the Democratic Party] longing for the status quo anti-Trump," Kavanagh told hosts John Kiriakou and Brian Becker on Wednesday.

"Biden is perceived now as the shadow [of former US President Barack] Obama. And this is a yearning for the return of" the Obama era, Kavanagh said. "I think that's what the Democratic establishment is pushing: they like Biden. I don't think he has a rat's chance of getting a nomination unless he is really hammered into it by the Democratic establishment over the wishes of the base."

"I think he will get creamed in the debate. He has all of these things on his record. He can't survive Twitter," Kavanagh noted.

​Last month, Biden also "shared his regret" with Anita Hill during a conversation about his role in Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings almost 30 years ago, another incident greatly tarnishing Biden's history.

Back in 1991, Biden was the Senate Judiciary Committee chair when Hill, an American attorney, alleged that then-nominee Thomas, who was her supervisor at the United States Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), had sexually harassed her. Biden has been heavily criticized for refusing to corroborate Hill's allegations by bringing forth more witnesses, including EEOC employees Sukari Hardnett and Angela Wright-Shannon, who were willing to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Biden has also been accused by multiple women of having interacted with them in inappropriate ways, with Biden's staff pushing hard back on the claims, describing them as a "cottage industry of lies" in April. 

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"He's [Biden] not going to get past few months of debate in real confrontations about this [his past] in a primary and with social media as it is. All of this is on the record. He's like a little Trump in a sense; he doesn't even understand how ridiculous what he is saying is," Kavanagh said, also noting that even mainstream media sites like the New York Times are acknowledging Biden's tarnished past.

"I think they know he can't survive this alone… I think this year there is too much radical pressure in the Democratic Party… They're [the Democratic establishment] going to have [to endorse] someone that sounds a lot more [leftist] than him, and I think the likely candidate for that is [Massachusetts Sen.] Elizabeth Warren," Kavanagh noted.

"The sagacity of the Democratic and Republican Party elites — it's kinda missing here," Becker noted.

"It's been missing for a long time," Kavanagh responded.

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