Stunning analysis from @FiveThirtyEight on the political and interpersonal dexterity of Joe Biden: [through stifled laughter] "he's good in intimate settings...he does the kind of laying-on-hands type of politics...it's very Irish." https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-bernie-sanders-suspends-his-campaign-for-president/

They were quick to say this wasn't a veiled reference to his tendency to grope women; that there's still some debate as to whether or not that sort of behavior is appropriate.

And people wonder why this thread wasn't picked up on by voters: trusted media, like @FiveThirtyEight and the @nytimes either brush this off as a benign faux pas—poor mannners—or crack jokes about Biden being so Irish https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1249270881936904192?s=20