Joe Biden is now a lost cause

Donald Trump often loses the thread of his argument, too, but that’s irrelevant. Politics is about perceptions, and right now the focus is on Joe Biden’s apparent decline.

During the June 27 presidential debate, Joe Biden, pictured in March 2023, gave a halting delivery and had moments of confusion, setting doubts in motion about his mental fitness, writes Gwynne Dyer.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

July 10, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—It really doesn’t matter whether Joe Biden is in peak condition intellectually during a second term as the American president. He did some useful things in his first term, but his main job now is to stop Donald Trump from coming back. If he succeeds in doing...

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