That's the thing - he's like *not* staying off the trail, he's just doing something else.

That was my question, though. What is he doing? He's not having any public events over the next two weeks - at a time when he really should be having public events.

She's the sitting Vice President. She owns the Biden/Harris record. Having her not prepared already is an indictment of their administration.

Not really. As we've discussed before, the Vice President isn't in charge of every agency of the government. And even though as a political matter the Veep can get tagged with everything the Administration is doing, when the Veep starts running as their own candidate they're going to be formulating policies and making choices that might differ from the Administration. When they're the Veep, the President picks the policy - as a nominee, they get to pick their own policy. So when you write...

If she doesn't know what to say about the stuff that she's supposedly been deeply involved in for 3 years that's not a great sign.

...it's just wrong. The Veep isn't "supposedly deeply involved in" everything that the Administration does - even the most engaged Veeps are given a portion of the Administration's agenda to be their portfolio. They're not in every briefing on every subject on every part of the federal government. That's not the Veep's job - they're not a second President.

Which is why, again, it's confounding that Trump isn't out there holding public events. Part of his advantage is that he's been running for President for more than a year now. Unlike Harris, he's currently as ready as he'll ever be to be out there barnstorming and communicating his message. She's still working out how Harris the nominee will run her campaign, or on what issues she will pursue a different policy than Biden - Trump's already got all that locked in (as well as he ever will). So why is he giving her a pass during the time she's got so many other things on her plate?