Why Biden is the change candidate

Biden might actually win and help elect a Democratic Senate. [View in browser](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP4QyAWh0dHBzOi8vbWVzc2FnaW5nLWN1c3RvbS1uZXdzbGV0dGVycy5ueXRpbWVzLmNvbS90ZW1wbGF0ZS9vYWt2Mj91cmk9bnl0Oi8vbmV3c2xldHRlci8wODQ0ODNjMy1lZTNlLTQ3M2ItYWQyOS05YzRjMTcwYWQwYTgmcHJvZHVjdENvZGU9TksmdGU9MSZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJmVtYz1lZGl0X25rXzIwMjAwMzA1JmNhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTE2NDg5JnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MjE4NzcmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkNyZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoALN9EYF6XGXZPUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~)|[nytimes.com](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP0S6aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vP3RlPTEmbmw9bmljaG9sYXMta3Jpc3RvZiZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMDMwNSZjYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xNjQ4OSZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTIxODc3JnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MjIwMjAwMzA1VwNueXRCCgAs30RgXpcZdk9SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~)[Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-ad-marquee) ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9MTYxOTkwJmxpPU5LJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1OS18yMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoALN9EYF6XGXZPUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ [NYTimes.com/Kristof](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP0TQaHR0cDovL3d3dy5ueXRpbWVzLmNvbS9jb2x1bW4vbmljaG9sYXMta3Jpc3RvZj90ZT0xJm5sPW5pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2YmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAyMDAzMDUmY2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTY0ODkmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0yMTg3NyZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTIyMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoALN9EYF6XGXZPUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) March 4, 2020 Joe Biden thanking supporters on Super Tuesday.Josh Haner/The New York Times [Author Headshot](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP0TRaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vY29sdW1uL25pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2Y_dGU9MSZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJmVtYz1lZGl0X25rXzIwMjAwMzA1JmNhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTE2NDg5JnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MjE4NzcmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkNyZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyMjAyMDAzMDVXA255dEIKACzfRGBelxl2T1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) By [Nicholas Kristof](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP0TRaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vY29sdW1uL25pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2Y_dGU9MSZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJmVtYz1lZGl0X25rXzIwMjAwMzA1JmNhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTE2NDg5JnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MjE4NzcmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkNyZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyMjAyMDAzMDVXA255dEIKACzfRGBelxl2T1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) Opinion Columnist Like many voters, I don’t love Joe Biden. He’s plodding, uncharismatic and lacks grand plans for change. But if I don’t love him, I do like him. He’s one of the most decent people in politics, even quietly giving out his cellphone number to people who have suffered great loss and telling them to call him. Most of all, I think he is now the best chance to oust President Trump and help elect a Democratic Senate. Bernie Sanders is authentic and does have grand plans, and I’m closer to some of Sanders’s positions than Biden’s. I think a wealth tax is a good idea, although there are genuine doubts about its constitutionality. But [my column today](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP0TlaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wMy8wNC9vcGluaW9uL2JpZGVuLTIwMjAtZWxlY3Rpb24uaHRtbD90ZT0xJm5sPW5pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2YmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAyMDAzMDUmY2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTY0ODkmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0yMTg3NyZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTIyMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoALN9EYF6XGXZPUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) notes that Sanders has passed very little legislation in the Senate: just seven bills, most of them insignificant such as name changes of post offices. For the Democrats to achieve change, they need to hold the House and win the Senate, and I think that is much more likely with Biden at the top of the ticket. I write this with the caveat that electability is a great mystery, one that almost everybody got wrong in 2016. It sometimes seems ennobling to shout out slogans and defy political gravity. That led progressives to try to run liberal candidates in conservative districts in 2018, but they lost. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi recruited moderate candidates to run in swing districts and they did exceedingly well, flipping the House. So [here’s my argument](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP0TlaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wMy8wNC9vcGluaW9uL2JpZGVuLTIwMjAtZWxlY3Rpb24uaHRtbD90ZT0xJm5sPW5pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2YmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAyMDAzMDUmY2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTY0ODkmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0yMTg3NyZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTIyMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoALN9EYF6XGXZPUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) for Biden as the change candidate. If Elizabeth Warren or anyone else had a good chance of beating Trump and helping elect a Democratic Senate, I’d feel differently. But like a lot of people my age, I’m still traumatized by McGovern’s loss to Nixon in 1972 — and I want a winner. [Here’s my column](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP0TlaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wMy8wNC9vcGluaW9uL2JpZGVuLTIwMjAtZWxlY3Rpb24uaHRtbD90ZT0xJm5sPW5pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2YmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAyMDAzMDUmY2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTY0ODkmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0yMTg3NyZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTIyMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoALN9EYF6XGXZPUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~)! 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[appears to have passed a measure](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP0T6aHR0cHM6Ly9wYXRjaC5jb20vY2FsaWZvcm5pYS9saXZlcm1vcmUvbWVhc3VyZS1jLXByaW1hcnktZWxlY3Rpb24tcmVzdWx0cy1hbGFtZWRhLWNvdW50eT90ZT0xJm5sPW5pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2YmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAyMDAzMDUmY2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTY0ODkmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0yMTg3NyZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTIyMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoALN9EYF6XGXZPUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) calling for a one-half percent sales tax increase to fund comprehensive early child care. This shouldn’t be done on a local level but on a national level, but the willingness of voters to raise their taxes suggests how important it is to many families. I’m hugely in favor of such measures for two reasons: High quality child care enormously benefits young children, especially those coming from troubled homes; and makes it much easier for parents, especially single moms, to hold jobs. It is ridiculous that in America we have a highly inefficient system of expensive nannies for wealthy parents and crowded day care with children parked in front of televisions for low-income parents. The military has a day care program that should be a model for the entire country, and Alameda County is showing us that voters care about establishing such programs. I hope that the next president will push for such a national initiative. China’s Crackdown It’s not getting much attention in the West, but China is systematically cracking down on free thought in both China proper and in Hong Kong. I was particularly troubled that Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong publisher who is a longtime supporter of democracy, has been arrested there, and meanwhile China has sentenced a book publisher, Gui Minhai, to 10 years in prison for committing free thought. Gui is a Swedish citizen who was kidnapped from Thailand and brought to China. 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An Inspiring Example Those are my schoolmates Mary Mayor and Mike Stepp above. Both are in our book, [“Tightrope,”](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP4QEAWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnBlbmd1aW5yYW5kb21ob3VzZS5jb20vYm9va3MvNTg4OTk5L3RpZ2h0cm9wZS1ieS1uaWNob2xhcy1kLWtyaXN0b2YtYW5kLXNoZXJ5bC13dWR1bm4vP3RlPTEmbmw9bmljaG9sYXMta3Jpc3RvZiZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMDMwNSZjYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xNjQ4OSZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTIxODc3JnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MjIwMjAwMzA1VwNueXRCCgAs30RgXpcZdk9SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) which I wrote with my wife, Sheryl. Mary was my seventh grade crush; she’s very smart and talented but wrestled for many years with drugs and alcohol and was homeless for seven years. With the help of a local church, she is now clean and sober and making a living by selling handcrafted birdhouses at farmers markets. She ran into Mike, my closest neighbor when I was growing up, who is now homeless and living in the streets of McMinnville, Ore., and snapped this photo of them together. [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-2) ADVERTISEMENT ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9NzI4Njk1JmxpPU5LJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1OS18yMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoALN9EYF6XGXZPUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9NzI4Njk2JmxpPU5LJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1OS18yMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoALN9EYF6XGXZPUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9NzI4Njk4JmxpPU5LJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1OS18yMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoALN9EYF6XGXZPUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ What struck me was that Mary also gave Mike $5 to help him. On her budget, that was equivalent to somebody else giving out thousands of dollars. And she offered more, but Mike wouldn’t take it. It’s a reminder that there’s tremendous generosity at the bottom of the economic order among people who are struggling to get by, even as those at the top are fighting to retain every tax loophole. Indeed, the bottom quintile give far more to charity, even though they get no tax benefit, than the top quintile. Helping people like Mike who are homeless is complicated and hard. But empathy is critical, and Mary could teach us all about empathy, compassion and generosity. And now [here’s my column](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP0TlaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wMy8wNC9vcGluaW9uL2JpZGVuLTIwMjAtZWxlY3Rpb24uaHRtbD90ZT0xJm5sPW5pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2YmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAyMDAzMDUmY2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTY0ODkmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0yMTg3NyZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTIyMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoALN9EYF6XGXZPUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) on Super Tuesday, the Democratic race for the presidency and why Joe Biden arguably is the candidate for change — the one who can actually get elected and deliver the Senate as well. And, if you disagree, feel free to explain why in the comments! [Please read](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgQsnfP0TlaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wMy8wNC9vcGluaW9uL2JpZGVuLTIwMjAtZWxlY3Rpb24uaHRtbD90ZT0xJm5sPW5pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2YmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAyMDAzMDUmY2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTY0ODkmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0yMTg3NyZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTIyMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoALN9EYF6XGXZPUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~)! What I’m Reading A year ago, I wrote about Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a homeless third-grade boy who had just won the New York State chess championship for his age group. Readers promptly donated a home, a car, chess books and $250,000 to support the family, but instead of taking the money (except for 10 percent donated to their church) the Adewumis put the rest in a foundation to help other struggling refugee families. 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