The Gaffe Master Beats the Policy Wonk
Joe Biden kept his foot out of his mouth and Paul Ryan in his sights during Thursday night's debate in Kentucky.
Joe Biden didn’t just meet expectations Thursday night, he completely surpassed them.
“Before the vice presidential debate, I’d thought that Paul Ryan would have the upper hand – a young smart policy wonk and great communicator paired off against an out-of-practice, aging politico with a recurring case of foot-in-mouth disease,” I write in my latest column for CNN.
“I was wrong.”
Read more of what I (along with a host of other good folks including Daily Beast contributor Paul Begala and my wife Margaret Hoover) have to say about Thursday night’s debate at CNN.
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John Avlon
John Avlon is senior columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, and the host of Beast TV. He is a CNN contributor regularly appearing on the show Erin Burnett Out Front at 7 p.m. EST. He won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ award for best online column in 2012.
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