ANALYSIS — Reports of Joe Biden’s disappearing act have been greatly exaggerated.
The lame-duck president has been globe-trotting, ceasefire-brokering, airstrike-ordering, legacy-selling and holiday season-celebrating. And yet polls show the person once known by his man-of-the-people alias “Scranton Joe” remains unable to connect with voters — right until the very end of his presidency.
Why? His chief economic adviser this week offered a telling explanation.