The Democratic candidate on Thursday hosted a fundraising event in New York to seek financial support from wealthy Wall Street donors. After his fundraiser, the former vice president encountered a mob from the New York Communities for Change organisation. The activists created an unpleasant mocking installation - a makeshift coffin. The incident was caught recorded for posterity.
"Things are looking pretty grim [...] The campaign is pretty much done. The people have spoken. Young people have spoken", one of the activists said.
Biden was a possible frontrunner for the Democrats late last year after several successful debates in which he displayed a confident superiority over his fellow party opponents. Pundits claimed, cited by US-based media reports, that Biden's emergence as unchallengeable at the beginning of the presidential campaign was mostly propelled by his solid and proven experience as vice president in the popular Obama administration.
This record, however, reportedly became a political tombstone, according to reports, as Democrats last year started the impeachment proceedings against US President Donald Trump over allegations that the latter withheld previously approved military aid for Ukraine in a quid-pro-quo move, pushing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to dig dirt on Biden and his son.
Biden's son, Hunter, was employed by Ukrainian energy company Burisma - a wealthy petrochemical company that had been probed by Kiev on corruption charges at the time. Biden, his son and a number of purportedly key witnesses were not summoned to Capitol Hill for the impeachment process.
As has been observed in the US press, candidate Biden may suffer from the fact that no Democratic presidential candidate since 1992 has enjoyed a political comeback after failing to gain support in Iowa and New Hampshire.