MEET THE MAN WHO SAYS BIDEN HAS A ‘WET NOODLE FOR A BACKBONE:’

The Iowa man who challenged Joe Biden during a campaign event on Thursday told The Post he had no regrets about the heated exchange.

“I’m positive 90% of the people there didn’t know about his son working on the board in Ukraine. I wanted it brought out there,” said 83-year-old Merle Gorman, referring to Biden’s son Hunter’s job at a Ukrainian gas company.

“If it educated them a little bit, so be it,” Gorman said. “I’m glad it happened.”

During a routine campaign stop in New Hampton, Gorman set the former vice president off when he accused him of sending Hunter to work for Burisma Holdings.

“You’re a damn liar, man. That’s not true. And no one has ever said that,” Biden, 77, raged.

Gorman said: “The exchange speaks for itself. He didn’t have the guts to explain the situation, and that’s what I wanted.”

“He got pissed off and stomped around … he wasn’t happy at all,” Gorman continued. “He started mumbling, saying it wasn’t true.”

“After today, he told me what he’s made out of … he’s got a wet noodle for a backbone.”

Biden has two modes when interacting with the press and the public — attempt to schmooze them with his fake Irish-American charm, or full-on rage when challenged, as when he locked a reporter in a closet, angrily shouted at conservative journalist Jason Mattera (and then reportedly investigated him) in 2011, and with both Gorman today and at an infamous presser during the 1988 campaign, bark at them about his Brainac-level IQ.

Given that the issue of his son will be coming up repeatedly this year, thanks, ironically enough, to the Democrats’ impeachment efforts, I’m surprised his handlers haven’t programmed him to switch into the former mode to calmly offer a quick rationale, and then immediately switch to the usual campaign trail pabulum about “looking toward America’s future.”

As for the left-leaning former Marine Gorman, he says “he voted for Barack Obama, said he liked Elizabeth Warren and would also gladly see Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker or Andrew Yang on the ticket.”

Does that insulate him from getting the full Joe the Plumber/CNN gif-maker doxxing from the DNC-MSM, or should he start deleting his social media accounts?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Sorry, Joe — you’re going to be getting questions about your brother Jim, too.