Yeah, Biden is the real thing

 
Can you imagine Trump having the capacity to show this kind of empathy ?
No one could - not even among his supporters.
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The match-up: Biden compassion vs Trump charisma
Donald \trump and Joe Biden compositeimage copyrightAFP/GETTY

With less than two weeks to go, America has two very different pictures of what makes a president. Last night this contrast could not have been clearer and this is how:

An old video of a Joe Biden hug went viral

This two-year-old video uploaded by a film-maker who makes clear that he is doing this to campaign for Joe Biden got millions of views.

    I'm one of those who frets that the election will be much closer than the polls indicate. That in a world where non-voters are never targeted by Dems, huge turnout could contain multitudes. So I'm dropping some old footage of Joe Biden here:  
pic.twitter.com/74UROClgbh

    — Arun Chaudhary (@ArunChaud) October 21, 2020

It shows Joe Biden hugging the son of a victim of the 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. Many shared how the unscripted empathy of the moment moved them to tears.

When Democratic vice-presidential pick Kamala Harris was asked how Mr Biden would deal with any personal attacks in the upcoming presidential debate she said: "One of the things I love about Joe Biden... he doesn't take on or talk about other people's kids."

Some commentators have looked into empathy as a winning formula and Democrats will value it in a week where Mr Biden's presence has been virtual.