It helped with the storyline, they had to kill this domestic terrorist. Everything underhanded is drawn up on the whiteboards and shared with the adoring media weeks in advance so everyone is on the same page. Say what you want about them, but Democrats are committed, and meticulous in their planning while Republicans are cowardly and unfocused.
This idiot Biden may have been born in Scranton, but his family moved to Delaware when he was 8. News Flash!! That doesn't qualify as growing up there.