When Joe Biden welcomed Donald Trump in the White House last week, he seemed like a different man. Gone was the feeble, senescent, dysarthric figure whose condition, long denied by Democrats, became so obvious after his June debate with Trump that those same Democrats forced him to abandon his presidential run.
In his place was a polite and lively man far closer to the Onion’s Obama-era caricature of him: the wild and fun-loving uncle depicted in such stories as “Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway.” Speculation abounded. Was Biden simply relieved that the election was over? Or was he secretly delighted that Kamala Harris, his own vice president, who ran for president instead of him, had failed?
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