https://news.yahoo.com/news-analysis-joe-biden-no-130040808.html
"Joe Biden is old. He has a paper trail reaching back half a century. He is, by his own admission, a "gaffe machine" who regularly trips over his own tongue.
He is not, however, as widely and viscerally disliked as the last Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, and that's complicating President Trump's reelection effort.
The incumbent is deeply unpopular and, if history is a guide, stands little chance of drastically changing those sentiments by election day.
His best — and possibly only — chance of winning a second term is making Biden seem the more unpalatable of the two; turning the election, in the political shorthand, into a choice between candidates rather than a referendum on Trump's personality and performance.
The strategy worked four years ago against Clinton. After a quarter-century on the national stage, and a bruising Democratic primary, the former first lady and secretary of State was viewed by many Republicans as a figure of almost singular villainy and by a significant number of independents — who didn't like either candidate — as the greater of two evils.
This time seems different.
"People are not afraid of Biden," said Ed Rogers, a former top official in the George H.W. Bush White House and a longtime Republican operative. "He's not a good enough bad guy" to make the focal point of a negative campaign."
MAYBE THAT'S WHY TRUMP WANTED BERNIE TO WIN THE NOMINATION
OH WAIT . . STRIKE THAT. TRUMP FEARED BERNIE!!!
(Kidding aside, it will be interesting to watch this all play out because Trump's 2016 campaign fit his role as an "outsider" but hes the incumbent now and incumbents usually win with optimism and a positive status quo message ("FOUR MORE YEARS!"). Trump cannot actually deliver that message, meaning he doesn't have the record or, more importantly the PERSONALITY. He is currently being exposed as a sort of "one trick pony." May not last, but they're definitely worried and you can see that by GOP excluding him from their own re-election efforts and His campaign's recent request for FOUR debates lol)
