 And it's denying him a basic self-awareness. Now, some of that has to do with the people surrounding him who won't tell him the truth about the polls and his chances of winning. Some of it is his own stubborn pride. And then, yes, there is just this reality that these people are collectively in such an insular bubble that everyone's in on the joke but them. Here is Jake Tapper talking about Biden being Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense, clip 22.