When US television networks finally declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election, the BBC broadcast a compilation of clips from Mr Biden’s long political career, including his aborted presidential runs in 1987 and 2008, and his eight years as vice-president during the Obama administration.
Of that pastiche of videos, spanning multiple decades, one short clip set the internet ablaze: a years-old exchange with Nick Bryant, one of the British broadcaster’s New York-based correspondents.
