If Biden responds “yes”, then what does the story and distraction of the day become?
Remember Clinton and “basket of deplorables”?
Let the surrogates and “Nasty” Nancy go medieval on Trump’s ass, while Biden takes the high ground and acts Presidential, i.e. the opposite of Trump in every way.
And besides, Todd has already opened the Overton Window for us by framing the question this way. One of the few useful things he’s ever done.