The Joe thing. The perception that he had lost a step was evident when he would speak and I would tune him out even when he was talking about matters of great interest. His cliches and patter were just part of all that. We love gramps but he shouldn't be driving. His foreign policy press conference after the summit was fantastic but even that I was like...this isn't helping him.
I wonder if Harris can speak about NATO and the possible coming confrontation with the PRC over Taiwan with the same gravity. My instinct is that as a prosecutor, she won't have the right mental toolkit for that and we will need her to ramp that up. Trump certainly can't but his fans don't want him to do anything but act as a model for their WWE-inspired narratives about strength and aggression.