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Coming up this week is the party over for a beleaguered leader with collapsing poll numbers?

Yes, of course,

it's Joe Biden. And we'll be talking about his struggles during a brutal first year in the White House with the great Bonnie Greer. And obviously we'll be coming back to the thing we keep coming

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