You could make this up!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudys-...mat?ref=scroll
As you say, in a country hungry for comfort around coronavirus and economic security the let's get Biden through Hunter strategy seems to come over as the person supposedly wanting to make America Great again four years ago as completely detached from ordinary people's lives.
Perhaps he has surrounded himself with so many yes men and women and sycophants that nobody is willing to tell him to try and gather votes beyond his base.