You’ve got to hand it to the people running the Democratic National Committee. If you think it was just bad time management that delayed Joe Biden from taking the stage until 11:30pm Eastern, you also believe, as Stephen Colbert apparently does, that CNN just reports the news with no bias.
The 81-year old lumbered onto the stage in Chicago after most Americans on the East Coast gave up and went to bed. They didn’t miss much. Biden’s speech was halting, meandering, and downright awful. He demonstrated again why he’s no longer up to doing the job right now, let alone for the next four years.
Axios’ Mike Allen talked to Jeff Zeints, the White House Chief of Staff, the caretaker of the person not really running the country anymore, giving him an opportunity to heap praise on Biden before his swan song speech on Day One of the DNC. Here’s the pith of the gist.
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