The Biden campaign is apparently still shaken from last month’s confrontation with Kamala Harris
during the first Democratic primary debate. Until that pointhad been running a general election campaign, coasting on Obama-era nostalgia, eschewing the grittier aspects of retail politics, and avoiding dustups with lesser candidates. “Creating a sense of inevitability was the goal,” Politico. But after Harris knocked him off his perch on the debate stage, Team Biden is said to be recalibrating.
With the second round of debates quickly approaching, the Biden campaign is now preparing to play hardball—especially regarding his complicated, nearly four-decade congressional record on various racial issues. “There are people that are all over Joe to get more aggressive,” a source who spoke to Biden tells Politico. “People are very nervous.”
The new strategy was in evidence last week, when Biden initiated a quasi-apology tour for the way he spoke about his former segregationist Senate colleagues, pivoting from
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