Joe Biden's campaign is denying reports that the former vice president has made a final decision on his running mate and that the candidate's remarks were a joke. 

The geriatric gaffe machine was caught during a bicycle ride photo op near his Delaware beach house and when asked by a Fox News reporter whether he had made up his mind, the masked man remarked “Yeah, I have,” leading to a flurry of reports that it was a done deal. 

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However, Team Biden quickly denied that the pick had been made with Biden's national press secretary TJ Ducklo taking to Twitter to claim that lunchbucket Joe was joking. 

Per Ducklo:

"Folks, this is clearly a joke. When Vice President Biden has made a decision on who his running mate will be, he will let the American people know. And can confirm, it's not @pdoocy of @FoxNews."

It has been an exhausting week of damage control for Biden's handlers who risk a killer blunder every time that the rapidly deteriorating presumptive nominee is on camera - let alone allowed to leave his basement safe space. 

Anticipation has been building with an announcement expected any day with reports indicating that there are two finalists - former Obama regime hatchet woman Susan Rice and ambitious California Senator Kamala Harris.

In a sign that the ex-veep may have settled on a familiar face who would essentially put Barack Obama into the White House for a third term if Democrats steal the election, Rice just dumped a block of her Netflix stock. 

Via The Wall Street Journal, "Susan Rice Sells Netflix Shares as Biden Eyes Her as Possible Running Mate":

Susan Rice, believed to be a top contender to be Joe Biden’s vice presidential running mate, has sold a significant proportion of the Netflix Inc. shares she has acquired since becoming a company director in May 2018.

The former national security adviser and United Nations ambassador for President Obama exercised roughly a quarter of the more than 5,200 options she held as of this week, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing dated Thursday.

Mr. Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is expected to announce his running mate next week. Ms. Rice is viewed as a strong contender because she worked closely with him when he was vice president and he is known to value personal relationships.

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Harris remains a media favorite as well as a donor darling but the buzz has cooled a bit after Politico jumped the gun and reported that she was the pick only to quickly retract their big scoop. 

In an interesting wrinkle, authoritarian Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer made the pilgrimage to Delaware to meet with Biden and his handlers last week. 

Via Fox News, "Whitmer met with Biden as he nears VP decision: AP":

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer traveled to Delaware last weekend to meet with Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's first known in-person session with a potential running mate as he nears a decision.

Whitmer visited Biden Sunday, according to two high-ranking Michigan Democrats who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. The first-term governor of the battleground state has long been on his short list of possible running mates.

Flight records show a chartered plane left Lansing's Capital Region International Airport for Delaware Coastal Airport at 5:33 p.m. and returned at 11:16 p.m.

The governor's office declined to confirm or deny the trip.

“We don't discuss her personal schedule,” spokeswoman Tiffany Brown said.

Biden's campaign declined to comment.

Unlike Rice, Harris and Rep. Karen Bass who is also in the running despite her expressed admiration for the brutal Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, Whitmer could potentially deliver a swing state although her totalitarian impulses and punishing lockdowns could have the exact opposite effect. 

A Whitmer pick would be epic in that all of the work that the DNC, Biden puppeteer Jim Clyburn and his campaign have invested in fomenting racial unrest would have been wasted if Biden reneges on his promises and picks a white woman. 

The suspense continues to build...