Interesting timing.
Interesting indeed. A ‘major foreign policy speech’ right after the commander in chief of the planet’s most powerful military has —disasterously— been publicly labeled (finally) as being mentally unfit for the office. Not that anyone truly cares.
Proceeding as planned: It’s far easier both politically and socially for the Democrat/Communist Party leaders to remove a sitting VP from consideration as the nominee than it is to tell a sitting president that Party leaders will not allow him to run again.