Politico: “As a vulnerable codger, he had a good excuse to sequester himself in his basement, burrowing so deeply that some took to calling him ‘Punxsutawney Joe.’ And with Biden mostly in hiding, Donald Trump’s blundering response has become the only real story of the campaign. Every time Trump opens his mouth, he convinces somebody out there to vote for Biden. If campaign finance law had any teeth, Biden would be forced to report Trump’s initiatives to the Federal Election Commission as in-kind contributions.”
“From his lair, given the gift of almost total media invisibility, Biden has commenced spanking Donald Trump in the polls. The press, as it always does, has followed the sense of the polls in its coverage, presenting Biden as the likely winner. Who can blame them? Biden may not be a great candidate, but even Trump’s own party thinks the president is destroying himself. Perhaps, back in 1988, if Biden could have persuaded the press to ignore him completely instead of actually covering him, he’d be schmoozing through his 70s at the Joe Biden Presidential Library today instead of running, undercover, for office.”