Joe Biden has just insulted another Iowa voter.

Sound like a plan to win?  Bernie Sanders is actually leading the polls in Iowa, and the Iowa caucuses are just days away, yet Joe, fresh from insulting a farmer voter earlier, picked just this time to insult another voter.

Here's what happened, according to Des Moines television station KCCI:

DES MOINES, Iowa — A video of Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden telling a Des Moines political activist to vote for someone else has received millions of views on social media.

Former Iowa legislator and Democrat Ed Fallon said his testy exchange with Biden occurred Sunday during a campaign stop at Urban Dreams in Des Moines.

He said he waited in line for a picture and wanted to confront Biden on his climate change proposals. Another member of Fallon's Bold Iowa group recorded their interaction.

"I'm going to support you if you win the nomination because we gotta get rid of (President Donald) Trump," Fallon said to Biden in the video.

Fallon said Biden became agitated when Fallon did not agree to support him in the caucuses.

The video is non-shareable, but it's a doozy — click here to see it.

Biden not only told the man — a Tom Steyer–supporter, as it were — to go vote for someone else on some pipeline disagreement — but poked the guy, palmed the man's chest, and put both mitts to grip the man's jacket openings, something the man remarked would have drawn security if he himself had done that to Biden.  In short, Biden got handsy even with a guy he had a problem with, in a bizarre gesture of aggression.

"I did not expect to be told to leave, to go vote for somebody else, then to be lectured about," Fallon said.

It rather signals that Biden has a lot of problems.  Here are three of them:

One: He's obviously missing the energy it takes to run a successful presidential campaign.  His stamina is failing him.  He's revealing his nasty temperament under pressure.  The first primary hasn't even started yet, and already Joe's all tired out and cranky.  He also seemed to address that the same day, effectively saying he's so old that he might drop dead any time and therefore needs a youthful and vigorous running mate, bringing up Michelle Obama as a possible.  Sound as if he's a good one for the long haul? 

Two, the character of the insult to the voter suggests he's convinced he's got voters to burn and doesn't need this guy's vote.  A normal pol — say, Bill Clinton — would look at the skeptic and, knowing the cameras were on him, try to win the man over.  Clinton did that all the time; he loved the idea of winning people over who didn't agree with him.  It's what campaigning is all about: trying to convince a few disagreers.  Biden's more like the cranky old guy who yells "get off my lawn" any time there's a challenge from the young'uns.  He can't handle pressure, which is not a surprise, given that he's always been surrounded by flatterers, but now it's obvious to voters well beyond the Steyer voter.  He seems to be delusionally convinced that his lead is so great that he can just tell voters to go away.  With Bernie Sanders taking a commanding lead in Iowa, sound like a guy who lives in reality?

Three, Biden doesn't learn from his mistakes.  He already snapped at another Iowa voter earlier, an old farmer whose weight Biden decided to make an issue of by challenging him to pushups.  He later said that was something he shouldn't have done as criticism mounted...and now he's done it again with this Steyer voter.  A pattern has emerged for voters now that Joe's a mean guy.  Obviously, he doesn't learn from his mistakes.

This goes to show how unfit he is as a presidential candidate.  He doesn't seem to have it to campaign on a national level.  He snaps, snarls, and alienates voters, well beyond the Steyer voters.  How he expects to rally the Democratic Party after what he expects will be his coronation is a mystery.

Suffice it to say, President Trump, who makes no such mistakes out on the campaign trail — and who's now drawing absolutely massive crowds, as he did this week in New Jersey — will pound this guy like a drum and, better still, beat him handily. 

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