Joe Biden’s five-state trip ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections was meant to boost Democrats facing narrow odds of winning.
But in a series of ad-libbed asides, the president managed to anger a key Senate ally, while making headlines with swipes at Elon Musk, Iran’s government and “idiot” GOP protesters outside an Illinois rally.
While the remarks amounted to no more than a few stray sentences in thousands of words uttered over four days, they distracted attention from Biden’s central task: preserving Democrats’ slim congressional majorities, and with them any chance of further legislative achievements before he himself potentially stands for re-election in two years.
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