After a week of fumbles, it’s open season on the former vice president
For the first six weeks of his campaign, Joe Biden largely drifted above the fray, a front-runner beyond the reach of the masses of the Democratic presidential field. His rivals publicly welcomed him into the race, and not a cross word was said about his record.The hits started coming last week, in thinly veiled references to Biden’s center-left record, his Washington insiderdom, his advanced age.
First, the former vice president appeared to lift passages from previously published documents for his own climate plan, recalling the plagiarism scandal that marred his failed presidential campaign in 1987. Next, after infuriating whole swaths of the Democratic Party by reaffirming his support for the Hyde Amendment — a measure banning federal funding for most abortions — Biden on Thursday reversed himself, saying he no longer supports the measure.
Before Biden’s reversal on the Hyde Amendment, top-tier Democrats took to social media and television audiences to reassert their opposition to the measure — then watched as longer-shot candidates attempted to draft off the controversy, as well.
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