"So let me get this straight. Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom"

[applegrove]

46. Biden was masterful as President. I mean his policies.

He lost charm as he aged and his gait changed to that of an old man. It did not inspire confidence. Like it or not you have to be attractive to the public when you run for president. A political family should have picked up on that, that he was not the candidate who won the first time.

When my dad died, I put up a recent nursing home picture of him on facebook that had him looking decrepid because all I could see in it was love and someone who had been amazingly kind to me as a kid and amazingly protective of me when life got terribly hard as an adult. It must have been a bad picture of him. Someone complained to my sister, who was not on Facebook, and she told me to take it down. I put uo a picture of him when he was healthier.

No doubt Biden was not decrepid and still was himself but he lost something salient politically and the Bidens and the people close to Joe could not see it. I was particularly taken aback when during an interview, way after the debate, he was asked what if he lost the election? Biden said "we'll then we lose" or something like that. I was so upset for all the people whose lives would be (are being) destroyed by Trump and Biden did not think of Americans or put them first in his answer.

That being said, I have no doubt he could have produced more great policies for America if he had a second term. He may have remained masterful. But he needed to get elected and he failed at inspiring people and his family should have known that.