Vice President Joe Biden at a campaign rally in Philadelphia on May 18, 2019. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Inevitably, he arrives late, by SUV or van. The former vice-president is thin and, yes, he’s old. He dresses neatly and always in blue. Staff envelop him.
This first part — the reading of the speech — he almost always gets right. Even when he makes changes, rearranging the order of the words, skipping over a few, adding others, how could he not get it right? He’s been delivering some version of it for more than 40 years and living it for longer. He could deliver it in his sleep, if he ever sleeps. It’s like my father always said: Joey, a job is about more than just a paycheck. It’s about your dignity.
“I don’t know how to describe it, but sometimes some people would walk up with a lot of emotion in their face, and without even hearing their story, he could connect with them,” John Flynn, who served as Biden’s senior adviser in the White House, said. “He would know it was either one thing or another, and he would just know how to approach them and to get them to gently open up if they wanted to. And if they didn’t want to, he just said, ‘Hey, I’m with you, and I’m there for you.
But it’s not just his age itself. It’s his tendency to misspeak, his inartful debating style, and — most of all — his status as a creature from another time in the Democratic Party, when the politics of race and crime and gender were unrecognizably different. It’s not just that the Joe Biden of yesteryear sometimes peeks out from behind the No. 1 Obama Stan costume.
Nobody will tell the candidate in plain terms what they think he needs to change. Not that Biden really listens anyway. In Des Moines, in August, he told a crowd, “Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.” Realizing what he’d done, he tried to correct himself. “Wealthy kids,” he said, “black kids, Asian kids. No, I really mean it, but think how we think about it.” Two weeks later, in Keene, New Hampshire, he said, “I love this place. Look, what’s not to like about Vermont in terms of the beauty of it? And what a neat town. This is sort of a scenic, beautiful town.” And so on.
The activist wing of the party is a lost cause to Biden just as he’s a lost cause to them. When they show up at his speeches to confront him or protest in support of the Green New Deal, something I’ve witnessed twice in New Hampshire, he attempts to formulate what he surely believes is a respectful response, and yet they don’t think it’s enough, because nothing that he says could be enough because of who he is.
Olivianuzzi I’m not voting for Trump or Biden.
Olivianuzzi Stories like this are making sure that Trump is re-elected, sadly.
Olivianuzzi Every time he’s on camera, and his campaign keeps him in a minimal exposure mode, he goes down in the poll. Trump will dog walk him. Hard. Please wake up America. Biden, Warren, Pete, They all lose to trump worse than Hillary.
Olivianuzzi He's not formidable
Olivianuzzi Neither do I
Olivianuzzi Trump is so stupid that he will be impeached trying to get dirt on an opposing candidate that won't even get the nomination.
Olivianuzzi He will be crushed by Trump. I hope that's who the Dems have as there frontrunner.
Olivianuzzi Joe is very nervous because corrupt don
Olivianuzzi Bidens corrupt family to trial
Olivianuzzi Sure he is. 🙄
Olivianuzzi Take a walker for granted, and you'll still get bit and die.
Olivianuzzi Trump risked impeachment because Hunter Biden was reckless and self-enriching enough to put himself (and his dad) in what is a legitimately arguable case of corruption; not because Joe is formidable. Low hanging fruit.
Olivianuzzi So in other words, he is human. Just like the rest of us. A nice change after the last three years...
Olivianuzzi No one thinks this
Olivianuzzi It’s not that they thought he was formidable. They just thought he’d be the nominee. It’s a calculation that doesn’t imply what you think it does.
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Olivianuzzi This is an embarrassment, belied by every poll since this self indulgent article was published. Joe is owed an apology.
Olivianuzzi Yikes! JoeBiden
Olivianuzzi It just doesn’t appear like Joe has the fire in the belly to fight another campaign.
Olivianuzzi Anyone that truly thought Biden would win take down Trump was delusional . He has been fading for years. And the light plastic surgery & hair plugs that was added vibrancy to physical appearance that matched his spirit. Now match his weathered appearance to his tired spirit.
Olivianuzzi Good article, bad headline (in the magazine). Captures some of Biden's strengths as an empathetic & likeable person, & some of his weaknesses as a candidate (focus & ORGANIZATION)
Olivianuzzi 'formidable' and 'Biden' two words that in the history of the English language have never been used together in a sentence before. Leave it to this dish rag of a publication to be the first.
Olivianuzzi This is weak
Olivianuzzi Trump pulling a Pied Piper strategy?
Olivianuzzi We can square this circle by noting that Trump is an idiot.
Olivianuzzi It was never going to be Joe.
Olivianuzzi No one in America really trusts him if they do the most basic Google search of his repeated acts of plagiarism and Senator of the state that is the very center of corporate corruption - in fact that should me the state motto of Delaware: “The Home of Corporate Corruption”
Olivianuzzi Wonderful work. What a story. Reminds me of Richard Ben Cramer's Biden chapters in What It Takes.
Olivianuzzi A backhanded article!
intelligencer I'm not elderly and I love Biden. I'm African-American woman and Warren and Sanders are to far left for me
Olivianuzzi This article is garbage by a garbage so call reporter
Olivianuzzi Who is “he?” Trump or Biden? Your tweet is very unclear.
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Olivianuzzi This is getting ridiculous. Hit pieces from the media and pundits on Biden to drop out so their chosen candidates can win says more about their choices than Biden. Stomping and Tweeting your way to the Nom doesn't work with Adults. That's why Biden enjoys wide support.
Olivianuzzi This semi hit job was almost convincing until this part. You cannot expect anyone to believe Trump is against plastic surgery…
Olivianuzzi Terrible biased article! Biden2020
Olivianuzzi If you don't want to support Biden, that's your prerogative but stop spreading false information. You have no idea how his staff feels about him and what you are writing is not true. You worked for the pervert, Anthony Weiner, how did you feel about him?
AntheaButler Olivianuzzi This was the kind of reporting from the NYT that created avenues to attack Hillary. How about mentioning the Generals had the same private email server issues and other facts that bring conduct to light, not vague opinions and adjectives like “weakness”. Use your brains!!
AntheaButler Olivianuzzi On morals and ethics alone, Biden should not be in the race: Authored mass incarceration bill that destroyed so many black families and the U.S., in general.
Olivianuzzi Biden formidable lol my ass. I am an independent you know the ones y'all need to win. Guess what your not going to with that guy.
Olivianuzzi biden would be a lot more formidable imo if he wasn’t already at his expiration date and showing the signs mentally. he’s a walking gaffe machine and trump will eat him alive
Olivianuzzi Now do Warren or Sanders... Sanders paid men more than women in his 2016 campaign, and there were rampant sexual harassment claims. Warren has lied about heritage, and funding for her campaign. She is only at the top due to the lack of vetting by the MSM like you.
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Olivianuzzi Go away, Joe. Take the Clintons with you if you guys really want to help this nation.
Olivianuzzi Great article. Captures the dichotomy very well. “When he was elected to the Senate, Pete Buttigieg was still a decade away from birth. There’s a lot of material, then, for Biden’s critics to work with. All sorts of stuff that doesn’t age well”
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Olivianuzzi Ouch. 'To say he overcame his childhood stutter would be a bad joke, like one of those I BEAT ANOREXIA T-shirts they sell on the Jersey boardwalk in size XXXL.'
KevinMKruse Olivianuzzi What if he’s not actually formidable but the TV-obsessed president thinks he is because the news networks are propping up his campaign
KevinMKruse Olivianuzzi Didn’t trump give money to his campaign?
Olivianuzzi This is most likely a lie and very hateful.
Olivianuzzi This is absurd and off base. I don’t care who you work for - campaign staffers throw their lives into the cause. There’s a reason why people who work for - or in my case support “the boss” - it’s loyalty to what many of us consider one of the most decent people we know.
Olivianuzzi Oh, you mean like Trumps stable administration must be falling all our themselves with loyalty because job security is tight up in there?
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi I continue to contend that realDonaldTrump doesn’t understand the law! He’s oblivious and doesn’t consider his actions criminal! That’s why he not just a criminal but a very dangerous criminal.
Olivianuzzi I suggest everyone watch 60Minutes tonight where Biden proves this entire article is a lie. Olivia, you know nothing about America and American voters but you know a lot about gaslighting for a dollar.
katherinemiller Olivianuzzi I’ll pass.
Olivianuzzi Great article. Truly explains the deep love real people have for Joe Biden. The title is certainly ,is leading. Glad I went on to actually read it. Makes me love Joe Biden even more
Olivianuzzi Olivia Nuzzi is still around?
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Olivianuzzi best political reporter since... Olivia Nuzzi.
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Why are some Elderly do stubborn! Biden should step aside🤷🏾♀️
jbenton Olivianuzzi Nobody can blow it quite like Joe. We saw it in ‘88 and ‘08. Without Obama’s wind at his back he’d be feeding squirrels in Delaware now. As he probably should be.
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Trump going after dirt on Biden has nothing to do with Biden being “formidable”. It’s that Trump knows he needs every advantage he can drum up. If Biden wasn’t the front runner he would have been asking for dirt on someone else.
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi I don't like him and I don't want another old white male president. There must be a change!
tedfrank Olivianuzzi I can't be the only one who thinks Trump wasn't so much thinking about 2020 as he is still dangerously obsessed with taking down anybody responsible for what he sees as the unfair & illegal investigation into him for Russian collusion, & he thinks Obama and Biden were behind it.
Olivianuzzi Trump attacking Biden is payback from Putin for Obama Hillary and Biden outsmarting him in Ukraine. Trump only interested in himself and money.
Olivianuzzi Pssst.....***he’s not really winning***
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Helpful reporting.
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gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Joe cannot lead this country into the future and solve the fundamental crises that afflict it. He doesn't know how to. He survived as VP because the president was Obama.
Olivianuzzi Great piece. The headline doesn't capture the scope & nuance of it.
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Does anyone have a to:Dr? Not sure I want to know that much about Biden.
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Biden's strongest arguments for winning the primary are Warren and Sanders. His strongest argument for winning the general is Trump. That's a strong hand, he may win this.
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Great article. Olivianuzzi
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Throwing his suit jacket to Jim Jordan...
Olivianuzzi This completely ignores the horrible foreign policy that has done so much damage in places like Colombia and Iraq. What about the crime bill? What about the Patriot Act? I feel for Joe’s personal tragedies but this is about whether public servants make the right policy decisions.
Olivianuzzi Biden has dementia
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Good article. A bit snarky but the writer is probably a millennial so..
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi ”Staff doesn’t trust him” amounts to lying by omission given the content of the article. (And is no different than outright lying though it’s arguably more manipulative.)
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Well written, but reading the whole condescending, trashy article will make you want to vomit.
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi You mean Joe’s staff doesn’t trust him?
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi This photo captures our hopes and fears about Biden. A bit pasty and energetic at the same time.
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Fine with me if he goes away
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Great article! Really captures the Biden paradox.
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Alternatively, in maddow Blowout, Putin wanted Biden taken down because of Ukraine policies against Yaroshenko.
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi With this story I think if realDonaldTrump responds you can expected to be called the Failing NY rimes but U keep doing what U do.
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi DOA. Lifeless campaign. The progressives are the only ones bringing energy to the party and the DNC wants to force feed someone who wont move the needle. 2016 redux
Olivianuzzi So what you’re saying is Trump was wrong about this, too?
tedfrank Olivianuzzi 'risked impeachment' Democrats have literally been calling for his impeachment since before he was elected...
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi This mag needs to assign a reporter who does not wear her disdain on her sleeve. I don't really care to hear what a biased juvenile elitist thinks about Biden.
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Strange retweet
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi That seems a little rough 😬
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi one does have to wonder, how precisely will trump link Hunter Biden to Warren, Sanders (or other) if it turns out that, you know, Biden DOESN'T get the nom...
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Go Joe!
gtconway3d Olivianuzzi Worst west wing cross over ever
Olivianuzzi Haven't read the piece yet, but that's a great set-up on the front page. Sharply observed paradox.
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