Joe Biden knew he could beat Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination but decided not to run because he feared a “stop at nothing” smear campaign by her supporters, he reveals in a new memoir.
The Clintons had such a lock on that nomination. Plus, of course, Joe Biden?
The way-too-young teenage girl vote could still have turned the trick for him Tim.
Nice phrasing there 🙂
It just gets better and better. More popcorn, please!
It looks like everyone who stood against here was on a hiding to nothing, which is probably why she treated the primaries as the first stage of a victory lap.
BiND,
Backs up what I thought. The hacks weren’t Russia. It was someone inside the DNC who was pissed at what was going on.
There’s a similarity with Gordon Browns memoir in which (apparently¹) he claims that had he stood against Blair after John Smith’s death, he would have won.
1) I have absolutely NOT read the book – only Danny Finkelstein’s excellent, perceptive and cruel assessment in The Times.
TMB, such a shame he didn’t, Labour’s 13 year stint could have been so much shorter. And we wouldn’t have had to endure that Television Evangelist they had in charge.
@TMB
Is that anywhere outside the paywall? Danny’s view would be one worth reading. A counterfactual to an alternate history and all that.
‘Joe Biden knew he could beat Hillary Clinton’
Or died trying.
John Square –
Is it perhaps this article? It’s not paywalled but you have to register with an email address and a password.
It is however confirmation, as if such were needed, of what a nasty piece of work Clinton is.
John² / PST
Yes that’s the one.
@johnsquare. “an email address and a password”. And the buggers reverse look up to see if you have a real address. My domain is a real one that forwards on to my iCloud account but it doesn’t work. Bastards. They can keep their article and their spam.
Shame as finkelstein is good but the barriers to reading are too high.
Andrew again, Mailinator works fine.
If anyone wants to impersonate Mr C Unt, email [email protected], password cuntycunt, they should feel free.
I’m fairness Hilary seems like the sort of person that would have screwed him over just to be sure despite having the party in her pocket and also to punish him for even having dared to run against her
BoM4 – Seth Rich?