 and literally stood up to an assassin's bullet. In the current political context, it provides quite a stark contrast with President Biden, who had spent the previous three weeks struggling to convince the nation and his own Democratic allies that he could stand up to the likes of George Stephanopoulos or for a single, quote-unquote, big-boy news conference. Yes, the attempted assassination of the former president has the effect of shifting the conversation away from Mr. Biden's struggle