It gets dull and repetitive to ask: can you imagine if Trump had responded to a disaster in that way? It yet the contrast in responses of the press would obviously have been immense. Nothing Biden says or doesn’t say or does or doesn’t do will change the fact that, if he runs in 2024, just about everyone who supported him in 2020 will vote for him again, and the Democrats and the left (redundancy?) will move heaven and earth to make sure he wins.

Biden could answer “no comment” to every single question he is asked from now till November of 2024, and it would not change things.

[I tend to think that Biden might not have understood the question but was too afraid of looking stupid to have it repeated. Hence, the safe “no comment” response. However, the whole weekend lounging on Rehoboth Beach was a stark contrast to the urgent need for action in Maui. It’s not just the “no comment” that communicated a lack of empathy,. Karen has more on the main blog. — Ed]