Jake Tapper: There Were Two Bidens — the ‘Fine’ One and the ‘Non-Functioning’ One We Saw at the Debate

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TAPPER: “Although I will say, our reporting suggests that his diminishment began a year before that, that his diminishment began in 2015, with the death of Beau, because what seemed to happen, Jeffrey, is there were two Joe Bidens. There was the fine Joe Biden that we just saw in that clip right there, and then there was the non-functioning by that we saw during the debate. And the non-functioning Biden would rear his head increasingly and more and more disturbingly as time went on. So when Barack Obama told Joe Biden that he didn’t think he should run or suggested, ‘You should take care of yourself,’ part of what I think what Obama was seeing in Biden was the non-functioning Joe Biden. Now, the question is, when did the non-functioning Biden emerge so often? It was a real question as to whether he should serve as president. And I think that is probably not till 2023 and 2024.”