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Biden vs Trump is a contest in which we all lose

10 November 2022

7:11 PM

10 November 2022

7:11 PM

Overnight President Biden announced that he intends to run again for the White House in 2024 and beat Donald Trump in a rematch of their 2020 contest. This would be funny if it wasn’t a tragedy for both the US and the wider world.

We thus have the prospect of a man who will be 82 in two years’ time, and is already, in the words of historian Niall Ferguson ‘manifestly senile’, facing off against a 78-year-old Trump if, as widely expected, the orange man announces another presidential run next week.

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