On Thursday, President Biden flew to Charlotte, North Carolina, to meet with the families of the law enforcement officers recently killed in a shootout. That’s good; that’s the kind of thing a president ought to do, and kudos to whatever anonymous staffer got this on the schedule because it’s unlikely in the extreme that the befuddled president thought of this on his own. It’s showing leadership, something the Biden administration hasn’t been particularly good at, and as the political saying goes, the optics are good.
But the optics of the president’s arrival in Charlotte? Not so good.
Biden descends the short stairs after arriving in North Carolina — as a Secret Service agent quickly follows behind to make sure he doesn’t trip.
He takes zero questions. pic.twitter.com/cMT9bRg7yf
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 2, 2024
The president, at least, managed to make it down the short…
