 Will Joe Biden bow out? Will he drop out of the race and then a brokered convention happens, etc.? I mean, that is truly the bottom line, I think. To that question, Joe Biden is a religious reader of Thomas Friedman's column in the New York Times. They go back decades, consider each other friends. Friedman loves Biden. The headline this morning, Joe Biden is a good man and a good president. He must bow out of the race.