“The-uh, the ability to buy into the Obamacare plan.” Biden also stumbled when trying to say immune system.įox News edited these moments into a mini montage. “The uh-uh-uh-uh-” His chin dipped toward his chest. “We f-f-f-f-further support-” He opened his eyes. He lifted his hands and thrust them forward, as if trying to pull the missing sound from his mouth. At first, Biden sounded strong, confident, presidential: “My plan makes a limit of co-pay to be One. The candidates were talking about health care. Some of his answers that night had been meandering and difficult to parse, feeding into the narrative that he wasn’t just prone to verbal slipups-he’s called himself a “gaffe machine”-but that his age was a problem, that he was confused and out of touch.ĭetroit was Biden’s chance to regain control of the narrative. He was unprepared when Senator Kamala Harris criticized both his past resistance to federally mandated busing and a recent speech in which he’d waxed fondly about collaborating with segregationist senators. The first one, a month earlier, had been a disaster for Biden. Then came the second debate, at the end of July, in Detroit. When I first reached out, in late June, his press person was polite but noncommittal: Was an interview really necessary for the story ? Since entering the Democratic presidential-primary race in April, Biden has largely avoided in-depth interviews.
We’re in Biden’s mostly vacant Washington, D.C., campaign office on an overcast Tuesday at the end of the summer. His voice has that familiar shake, the creak and the croak.
#Biden shakes invisible hand full#
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