Biden having a tough time handling questions from voters that media is not asking him

Monica Showalter:
Joe Biden is 77 and ought to actually remember when President Harry S. Truman popularized: "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
His wretched performance in an encounter with an Iowa voter who challenged him, melting down and flying off the handle, tells voters he never absorbed that political lesson.  Either he's either stupid or he has trouble remembering things.
Here's how the New York Times reported it:
NEW HAMPTON, Iowa — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday angrily lashed out at a voter who questioned his son's overseas business dealings at a campaign stop in Iowa, calling the man a "damn liar" in an unusually heated exchange.
The man — who declined to identify himself to reporters — falsely claimed that Mr. Biden had "sent" his son to work in Ukraine and accused him of "selling access to the president."
"You're a damn liar, man," Mr. Biden shot back. "That's not true. And no one has ever said that. No one has proved that."
Other than the Times' editorial insertion of the word "falsely," it's a pretty strong picture of a man in total meltdown.

The former vice president is obviously having problems with handling challenges, something any experienced pol can do with ease. Not Biden. Instead of telling the farmer he's got it wrong, he growls with ad hominem attacks — "You're a damn liar" — and then attacks the man three times for being fat, failing to answer his question. He didn't answer because he has no answer. And that's a sign he can't take heat.
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If Biden were a Republican the media would have already challenged him with the same question as the voter.  Instead, they have been pretending that there is nothing wrong with what he and Hunter did in Ukraine.  Do they not think Trump will not question him on the same matter, or would they just attack Trump for raising the question?

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