The best guy I've ever heard really make a great yet simple to understand economic case for Democratic pro-growth tax and fiscal policy just happens to be one of the most hated former public officials in the history of the country. Yeah, I'm talking about former treasury secretary ... and life-long public servant up until when he left the Obama administration in 2013 having almost single-handedly saved Main Street from complete destruction, Timothy Geithner. Oh, the hor ...er, irony!

Unfortunately, Geithner will be remembered only for saving Wall Street. I shudder to wonder where we would all be if the advice given by Elizabeth Warren had been followed, instead.

As Geithner has said of his time in the Obama administration, "we saved the economy but we lost the country." Mostly because the treasury secretary was too busy actually saving the economy to make the great and simple arguments in favour of Democratic economic policy and no one else was effectively making that case in his place.

If Biden does nothing else in these two debates but make the case for how Democrats are the better stewards of the economy for the majority of Americans and against the Republican cult of economic failure - which only works for the millionaire and billionaire class and then not ideally for them, either, in the grand scheme of things - then he just might do enough to compensate for all of the other issues working against him, in particular and against Democrats, in general.

On the economy, over the course of the last many decades, Republicans have a far less than stellar record to stand on and all Trump himself has is obfuscation and bluster based on fantasy.

Of course, it wouldn't hurt for Biden to admit that Dems have made mistakes, too. But, for the average American voter and their personal economy, the choice could be made crystal clear if Biden is up for making that economic argument.