No Way Joe

Manny Otiko
4 min readJan 14, 2020

Biden Candidacy Would Result in 2nd Trump Term

Vice President Joe Biden being sworn in 2009 ( Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, USN)

I was never sold on former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election bid. I remembered his previous abortive bids and his frequent gaffes. But for a minute I thought that he could rely on his image as an elder statesman and his blue-collar charm to win over voters who want a return to normalcy. But that didn’t last long, the more I see of Biden, the more I’m convinced that if he’s the…

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Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him on Twitter @mannyotiko.