Biden repeatedly fumbled in response to basic challenges about his own positions, displaying more arrogance and bluster than competence or vision
Following a memorable first clash between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, anticipations ran high that Harris would again attack Biden on his race record. Biden suffered in the polls after their first clash, but he quickly recovered, reestablishing himself as the front runner and leading many to think that Biden’s presidential campaign would follow his career-long pattern of failing upward. When they walked on stage and shook hands, he could be heard on a hot mic saying to her, “Go easy on me, kid.” (Senator Harris is 54.) She did not go easy on him, and neither did anyone else.
Harris spent the night attacking Biden, deftly parrying questions about her own policies into attacks on his. In a near unified attack, other candidates called Biden out for his championing of the disastrous 1994 Crime Bill, his failure to stop inhumane immigration practices under the Obama administration, his failure to move the Obama Justice Department to investigate the murder of Eric Garner by New York City police, and, once again, his vocal praise for segregationists.
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