Douglas Brinkley: If You Are a Democrat Today, You Are Feeling Better About Your Likely Nominee

‘It was fighting Joe Biden’

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BRINKLEY: “There was a feeling within the Democratic Party that maybe they bet on the wrong horse, that being in his 80s wasn’t going to work and we needed a younger candidate in the Democratic Party. But alas, he delivered. It was fighting Joe Biden. I keep hearing the word feisty being used. He made great historical analogies to FDR, the Four Freedoms address of January 6, 1941. And it was a big moment, it gave oxygen and momentum to Biden to not easily dismiss him. And so from a — if you’re a Democrat today, you’re feeling better about your — your likely nominee.”

 

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