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The Bunker

Bunker USA: Age concern – Does it matter how old Biden and Trump are? with Molly Jong-Fast

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6984 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden is 80 and his main Republican rival Donald Trump is 77. Opponents of each are ready to use their ages against them – but will this debate matter come 2024? Writer for Vanity Fair and host of the Fast Politics podcast, Molly Jong-Fast says the age argument is a classic GOP tactic, but questions how well it will work. She joins Gavin Esler in the Bunker. “One of the things we’re not talking about enough is the power of incumbency.” – Molly Jong-Fast. “I don’t think Biden would’ve run again if he didn’t know he was the person most likely to win.” – Molly Jong-Fast. “This could be the last ever American election – can you see Trump ever leaving?” –Molly Jong-Fast. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Gavin Esler. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production: Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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1:20.0

in often unlikely places but while the United States is indeed full of talent in every field of human endeavor,

1:27.0

even a casual observer of the American political scene must wonder if talent in political life and there is some will end up with the

1:35.4

2024 US presidential election being a choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden

1:40.8

the evil of two lessers taking on the lesser of two evils.

1:46.0

Trump is 77 and facing court cases too numerous to mention.

1:50.5

Joe Biden is 80, and without being aist, we can say that Winston Churchill, who died

1:55.9

age 90, decided to leave active politics when he turned 80.

2:00.7

So, with roughly a third of Americans who could vote deciding not to do so generally, how

2:06.1

excited should we and they be about election 24? How concerned? Are they the best and brightest to lead a great country?

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