Analysis: Biden is one of the most experienced politicians ever to seek the presidency
In June 1987, then-Sen. Joe Biden leaves Wilmington, Del., after announcing his presidential candidacy. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow May 14 at 5:22 PM Writing at CNN, Ronald Brownstein made an interesting observation. Over the course of American history, no presidential nominee has had as lengthy a career in elected office as former vice president Joe Biden does going into the 2020 Democratic nominating contest.
Most of the actual nominees, you’ll notice, have come in recent years from the less-experienced end of the pool. We’ll come back to that. But there’s a pattern in recent elections that suggests Biden’s experience isn’t necessarily a good thing. Below we have presented each candidate listed above, in order of the experience each had before declaring his or her candidacy.
There’s a benefit to not having a long paper trail in politics, as Brownstein notes. Biden has already hit some turbulence thanks to positions he advocated decades ago. His handling of the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court has been a focal point of questions about his candidacy. Obama, Bush and Trump were, at the time each won election, not similarly burdened.
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