Because as the illegitimate potus, Biden would have been booed and heckled.
You know it. I read that in NYC, only a few hundred mostly LE people, obviously under strict orders to stand still and notdo anything, were near the stage or podium, and the crowd was at quite some distance behind them and fenced off by a solid row of police (with shields, I believe).
I think they were worried about more than booing.
Also, from the photos I saw, it looks like Biden came out tucked in the middle between Harris, Clinton, and Obama - you can barely see him.
Everybody hates him.
I wonder if some of the hackling he has gotten recently in the chance at sports stadiums factored into this decision by his handlers. It is very odd the sitting US president would not publicly speak on the anniversary of 911. To the best of my knowledge for the last 19 years they have always made a speech.
Precisely. There s a video on Twitter of Biden in NY today running over to sweet talk a child in the crowd and a bunch of people are calling him a disgrace for Afghanistan and one keeps telling him not to sniff the kid.
In New York City.