Which of our candidates, other than Harris, have made statements defending Joe Biden by name?

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52. I'm surprised you don't understand the importance of defending fellow candidates by name when

they're unfairly attacked.

It's important to show a united front, as Drunken Irishman pointed out in reply 31. If our candidates don't, Trump and the GOP will look for ways to exploit apparent divisions. It would be very easy to do a digital ad asking why candidates X, Y and Z aren't defending candidate A (and easy to find video of X, Y and Z looking disapproving). Why make something like that easier for the GOP?

It's important for rival candidates to let their own supporters know that the candidate being attacked by the GOP did nothing wrong. When this RW smear about Biden first surfaced, I saw some supporters of other candidates pushing it as a way to go after Biden. And yesterday, not long before I posted this OP, I saw one supporter of another candidate on Twiter complaining that another supporter of that candidate should NOT have posted a news story making it clear Biden did nothing wrong, because "the story helps (name of their preferred candidate). The best way to stop that is for the other candidates to defend the candidate under attack by name.

It's important for all our candidates to keep in mind that we don't have a nominee yet, and the candidate under attack could well be the nominee, and it hurts our chances of winning in 2020 if candidates aren't defended by name.

And since there are important reasons for defending candidates by name, NOT doing so will almost inevitably raise questions about why that wasn't done.

One is whether whoever isn't defending the candidate under attack might believe the attacks. If so, that raises a whole new set of problems.

The other is whether a rival candidate isn't defending the attacked candidate by name because the attacks might benefit the rival's campaign by hurting the campaign of the candidate under attack.

I don't want to think any of our candidates would do that.

But they should understand that it's important for them to defend any candidate under attack by the president and the GOP by name.