Walter Isaacson: ‘I Think Joe Biden Is Very Sharp’

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ISAACSON: "I think what you’re going to see tonight, you know, is whether or not, as you put it, Biden can really hold his own. I think he can. I was looking around myself yesterday, I was making more gaffes than Biden did in a week. But the media narrative is he forgets names, he makes mistakes. If he holds his own, I think you’re going to see a group of elected officials, people like Rahm Emanuel and Mitch Landry and others try to rally, 'Okay, Joe did fine, it’s now time to put our money and raise money for him and support him.' Not that that will get him the nomination, the establishment of the party coalescing around him, but I think you’ll see a rallying around Joe Biden. I think that it has been an unfair media narrative. I’m on Claire’s side on this one. Because I think Joe Biden is very sharp, I mean, if you listen to him and talk to him. It’s just that on any given day you can find a gaffe and exaggerate it. So we’ll see what happens tonight. But if he comes out okay — he’s more authentic making a gaffe than Kamala Harris is executing a scripted attack. And people feel, 'Okay, I know Uncle Joe, he’s authentic.'"