As you might know (and without getting too into the specifics of his current presidency or his 2020 bid), Biden's first of three runs for the presidency occurred in 1988. As a youngish but experienced moderate with both foreign policy expertise and blue-collar bona-fides, he was formidable in early polling but his campaign quickly fell apart in the fall of 1987 due to a string of both academic plagiarism accusations and (possibly accidental and forgetting to note that it was a quote of Kinnock) plagiarizing UK Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock in a speech, and he dropped out prior to the Iowa caucuses. Had he avoided the latter and managed to better finesse the former and won the Democratic primaries, how would he have fared in the general election compared to Dukakis? If he managed to win (which isn't impossible--1988 was a very elastic race and Dukakis could have made it significantly closer by more effectively responding to attacks on his record), how would he have handled both domestic and foreign (collapse of the USSR/Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) policy?
WI: Biden nominated in 1988
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Yeah I agree due to Biden being the current POTUS at the moment.
Someone already did a TL where Biden won in 88, but I'm interested to see where you'd take it.
However, he suffered that aneurysm after he dropped out IOTL, and he said he would've ignored it had he stayed in the race. So in your TL, he'll have to juggle his health problems with his handling of the era's policies.
However, he suffered that aneurysm after he dropped out IOTL, and he said he would've ignored it had he stayed in the race. So in your TL, he'll have to juggle his health problems with his handling of the era's policies.
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Some might say this is an exceedingly charitable supposition. But, tbf, Kinnock was indeed fairly forgettable.