Biden Ditches the Lectern

“Whenever the president travels, a special bullet-resistant lectern called the ‘blue goose,’ or its smaller cousin ‘the falcon,’ is in tow. Lately, President Joe Biden is rendering them all but obsolete as he increasingly reaches for a hand-held microphone instead,” the AP reports.

“From casual fundraisers to more formal remarks on disaster response or inflation or the like, Biden has opted for a hand-gripped mic more than a dozen times in recent months — even when he’s standing in front of the fixed double microphones on a presidential-seal-adorned lectern.”

“Those who know him best say the mic swap makes Biden a much more natural speaker, and he knows it.”