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Will Republicans really pick the one candidate Biden can beat?
Dan Hannan
The Democrats have left the goal wide open. Almost anyone could defeat President Joe Biden, whose physical and mental decline can no longer be hidden from the public.
Almost anyone.
Yet, with a kind of hideous slow-motion inevitability, the Republicans seem determined to pick the one candidate that we know Biden can beat. We can say that definitively, for it is a matter of observed fact rather than conjecture.
It is agonizing for friends of the United States to watch the two parties, in the grip of their weird internal dynamics, plumping for candidates whom they know in their souls to be unsuitable.
Biden’s problem is not his age per se. Winston Churchill was 65 when he formed his first ministry in 1940. The problem is that Biden is visibly deteriorating, shuffling limply, mumbling incoherently, often forgetting where he is. In this sense, he is more like Churchill during his second ministry, formed in 1951 when the great man was 76 and sinking into senility.
Even committed Democrats can see it. “Questions will persist about his age until he does more to assure voters that he is up to the job,” said the New York Times just before the announcement, the closest that paper could realistically get to telling him to back off. “If he runs again, Mr. Biden will need to provide explicit reassurance to voters; many of them have seen family members decline rapidly in their 80s.”
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