Joe Biden Announces 2020 Run for President

The first 24 hours are in the bag for former Vice President Joe Biden as he made his opening pitch to 2020 Democratic primary voters in his new role as front-runner for the party’s nomination.

Biden made his first campaign stop Thursday night at a Philadelphia fundraiser hosted by many of the state’s political heavy hitters before he prepared for his first television interview as a candidate today on ABC’s “The View,” which is seen as a push for the former vice president to make an appeal to female voters in a Democratic Party that is increasingly led by them.

However, the first day for the former vice president was not all positive. It emerged he phoned Anita Hill earlier this month, initiating a conversation that left her “deeply unsatisfied” and without an apology. In an interview, Hill said without accepting his harm to her and many women who suffered sexual harassment, Biden could not have her support (The New York Times).

“I cannot be satisfied by simply saying I’m sorry for what happened to you. I will be satisfied when I know there is real change and real accountability and real purpose,” she said.