With his presidency ending in a few weeks, Joe Biden’s legacy is only getting messier.
For many Democrats, he’s the man to blame for returning Donald Trump to the White House.
If only Biden hadn’t selfishly run for reelection, the story goes, Kamala Harris would have had time to mount a better campaign—or maybe the party could have had a proper primary contest to find somebody, anybody stronger than Biden or Harris.
The trouble with that theory is that Democrats haven’t won a presidential election without Biden on the ticket since 1996.
Perhaps Barack Obama didn’t really need Biden as his running mate in 2008 and 2012; yet he needed someone for the No. 2 slot, and he evidently thought Biden the best thing available.
Democrats at the time should have pondered what that said about their talent pool.
If they’d done so, they might have avoided the…
