The 76-year-old former senator and vice president is raising money from major donors, with all indications that he will jump into the Democratic presidential primary later this week.
Joe Biden is as well known as fellow septuagenarian and fellow frontrunner Bernie Sanders, yet he represents a far more pragmatic strain of the increasingly left-leaning party. So we say: Welcome to the fray.
Don't relax for even a minute, or act like the nomination is yours to lose. Bring your best ideas to the table.
A reasonably honest person of decent character ought to be enough to defeat the steaming bucket of bile that is Donald Trump, but that's not the way things work: Democrats need constructive ideas that speak to Americans who are still eager to see answers to the biggest problems in their lives.
Elizabeth Warren wants to break up big tech companies, and tax multi-millionaires to provide universal childcare and student loan debt relief.
Kamala Harris wants to boost teacher pay by an average of $13,500, all across the country, a $315 billion investment over a decade.
Sanders, of course, wants Medicare for All, which will cost about $30 trillion over 10 years, though Sanders says most Americans will pay less in taxes than they would in health care.
Pete Buttigieg, a young and charismatic mayor who's semi-surging in the polls, has a winning way, but has yet to roll out the kind of sweeping policy proposals that many of the other contenders has showcased. It's early; he'll need them.
Biden's been around the block to know that slogans can't win elections; Barack Obama had plans galore along with the promise of hope and change. The only way to beat bad ideas is with better ones.
