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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

Hello and welcome to free expression from the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal.

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This week, do the Democrats have a Joe Biden problem.

The last week's headlines have been dominated by renewed doubts about the president's advanced

age and his fitness for the job, even as he asks Americans to give him another four years

in the White House. Special counsel Robert Her last week expressed in unforgiving black and

white what many Americans have long thought, declining to prosecute Biden over his handling of

classified documents, he said memorably, if we can put it that way, that the president was a

well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. Democrats reacted with fury, accusing her over a

political hit job, insisting Biden is as sharp as attack, and saying Donald Trump also frequently

shows evidence of cognitive weakness. The Democrats could also take some encouraging news this week

when the party managed to flip a house seat vacated by disgraced former GOP Congressman George Santos

in a special election in New York. So they say, things are on track, but the evidence of Biden's

frailt is adding up. At the very press conference, he himself called to rebut the allegations

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