Joe Biden has a specific tactic he uses on women, often younger ones, who confront him: sarcasm at their expense
Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Last weekend, 24-year-old Michaelyn Mankel felt excited and prepared. A field organizer for Sunrise Movement in Des Moines, she was attending the Polk County Steak Fry, the single largest gathering of Democrats in the state of Iowa, and she had her questions ready for Joe Biden when she met him.
Mankel keeps going. “How about your climate adviser Heather Zichal — she’s actually made a million dollars from the fossil-fuel industry?” she asks. “We need a Green New Deal, not more corruption.” Then the former vice-president takes her left hand in both of his, pats it like he’s just given her a nickel to go buy something nice for herself, and says, “Thank you for being — for admiring me so much.” He turns away from her and smirks. A guy watching in the background chuckles.
For months, Biden has faced criticism over the way he physically interacts with women — be it through invading their personal space in a way that feels uncomfortable and demeaning or under a veneer of grandfatherly affection.
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