Article snippet: MORE’s presidential campaign is hitting major bumps at a critical moment in the 2020 campaign. A little more than three months before the Iowa caucuses, the former vice president is widely seen as having lost his front-runner position to Sen. MORE (D-Mass.). He’s an underdog in Iowa, is coming off another forgettable debate performance and has just $9 million in cash on hand. “It’s increasingly clear he's not up to the job of running a campaign,” one Democratic strategist unaffiliated with any of the presidential campaigns said in criticizing Biden’s operation. Other Democrats say Biden has always been a weak candidate boosted by strong name recognition and his years as former President Obama’s vice president. They argue his centrist politics and elder-statesman status are a difficult fit with a primary electorate that is leaning progressive. “For a very long time, he's been the superficial front-runner,” said Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko, who served as an aide on MORE's 2016 presidential campaign. “A lot of his policies are not progressive enough. This isn't 1998 and this isn't 2008. He's spent too much time focused on thinking he has to run mainstream to be elected.” Biden still has strong support among African American voters, who could still be his political salvation. While he is behind Warren in polls in New Hampshire and Iowa, he has a healthy lead in South Carolina. But it’s hardly clear that Biden will retain that edge, and other centris... Link to the full article to read more