Meanwhile, sympathizing with him over the recent death of his son, the media has refrained from piling on with their normal line of "gaffe-prone Joe" stories. All the attention has been on Hillary's poor campaign skills, email troubles, and Benghazi culpability, and as we know her poll numbers have been sagging.
Trende's bottom line:
Joe Biden has, in fact, been running for president for a couple months. But rather than distract from Hillary Clinton’s troubles, and to avoid being the flawed, late entrant, he has been doing his work behind the scenes. If this is right and Biden declares, he’ll have a well-oiled machine ready to hit the ground running.As Trende notes, Biden has been much in the public eye recently, as well as on late nite TV. It's not the behavior of a lame-duck VP heading quietly into retirement.
