Joe Biden with his late son, also Joe, but known as Beau. Just occasionally Mr Biden himself lets slip that he probably agrees. And he knows who that candidate was. “Beau should be the one running for president, not me,” he told MSNBC in a moment of raw emotion in January, a time when the former vice-president’s lacklustre performance in Iowa put him on course for a poor fourth place in the first-in-the-nation vote on the Democratic field. Family has always been at the forefront of Mr Biden’s mind

Source: The Times August 14, 2020 16:08 UTC