Biden makes a comeback, but don't write off Bernie yet
Will it be 2016 redux? Four years ago, the Democratic party was pretty much in this situation - placing its hopes on Clinton's experience, only to find their plans thwarted.
YOUNGER readers may not remember this, but former Vice-President Joe Biden has already run for the office of President of the United States twice - in 1988 and in 2008 - and in both those races, he failed to win even one primary or caucus.
So from that historical perspective, his stunning win in the Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina last Saturday was the first time that this veteran politician - who has several terms in the House of Representatives and the Senate under his belt, and who had also considered running for President in 2016 - has actually triumphed in any presidential race.
The South Carolina victory came after three earlier losses: he emerged in a distant fourth behind Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren in Iowa (where he was considered the frontrunner; then he found himself in fifth place in New Hampshire, and then trailed Vermont senator Bernie Sanders in second place in the Nevada caucuses, which he had been expected to win.
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