Politico reports, "In the latest sign that Joe Biden will run for president, his team has brought on Cristóbal Alex, the head of the influential Latino Victory Fund." The article then adds, "It's not clear what role Alex would fill in a Biden presidential campaign."
Let's take a wild and exceptionally clueless stab in the dark. Head of Latino outreach?
But as for basics — again …
I have still to witness a candidate preferable to Joe Biden — against Trump. If Republicans were running a much younger candidate, or even a Kasich, then a Dem of Biden's age might be reasonably objectionable. But against Trump, Joe's age is conveniently ruled out as a downside.
And since Trump is destined to go down in 2020 — just a mere, four years late — it would also be preferable to have a Democrat in the White House who knows his teammates. It was said of FDR that you could slap a chalkline anywhere across a wall map of the United States, and he could name the party's chairman in each chalk-delineated county, coast to coast. That in itself isn't a sign of an imminently "great" president, but arduous learning curves for political outsiders are as time-wasting as they are time-consuming. Biden knows politics, he knows policy and government, and he knows where the WH light switches are.
Once Biden gets in the race — this time, that seems a safe wager — it will be interesting to see where the money goes. If he can lock down establishment boodle early on, that could swiftly lock out a few other hopefuls. And the field needs to be culled as soon as possible, so the party can speak with one voice.