There weren’t many moments in the 2020 presidential campaign when Joe Biden appeared in public and answered questions on the fly, without any notes to guide him. To the extent Biden did sit for interviews, he only talked with friendly outlets that went out of their way to help him answer their questions. But despite that assistance, sometimes things still went very wrong.
One of the more notable debacles came in January of 2020, when Biden participated in an “election forum” at Vice. Biden was asked how he would change the “culture” at ICE, or Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. His answer involved the usual angry yelling and finger-pointing. But the substance of what Biden said was so bizarre that it left the Vice interviewers speechless. Watch:
Even for Vice, that was a little much. Biden pledged to fire any ICE…