On the White House South Lawn, Vice President Kamala Harris praised the man she is likely to replace atop the Democratic ticket, telling an assembly of student athletes that "I am firsthand witness that every day our president, Joe Biden, fights for the American people."
The pair have met face-to-face just six times since the beginning of June, according to a RealClearPolitics analysis of the president's public schedule.
Biden and Harris met for lunch the next day, the president's public schedule shows.
Shortly after his inauguration, the president promised the vice president lunch "Once a week," an optimistic schedule that Biden often failed to keep, an earlier analysis by RCP found.
The White House and Biden campaign insisted for years that Biden had not lost a step, that he was, as Jean-Pierre told RCP, "As sharp as ever." But for 90 minutes in Atlanta, the worst fears of Democrats were inescapable.
It was hosted by the campaign, and the vice president spoke first, introducing Biden as a president who "Not only knows how to fight, he knows how to win." Biden stepped to the microphone moments later after applause and chants of "Four more years!".
The outgoing president then asked his campaign to work as hard as they could for Harris in the coming weeks and months.
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