Is an 80-year-old Biden still the best bet against Trump?
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🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
With President Biden finally declaring last week that he's running for re-election, and Donald Trump still the leader of the Republican Party, America is finding itself in a state of déjà vu.... It's the rematch contest that nobody seems to want. So why is it happening? And could Biden win a second round?
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| 0:00.0 | The oldest president, the U.S. has ever seen, is running again. |
| 0:13.6 | He's a little old, and if I can't join the army at 58, I don't think he should run the |
| 0:23.9 | country at 80, and how old will it be? 84? 86, actually, if he finishes out a second term. |
| 0:31.6 | It's too old. Definitely too old. |
| 0:39.0 | Joe Biden's announcement has its drawn mixed reactions. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm really excited, so I'm super excited that he's running this term, primarily because, |
| 0:48.7 | you know, as a gay man, you know, a lot of my rights with the other parties can be a jeopardy. |
| 0:53.9 | I think listening to his announcement, there wasn't anything new, and he didn't talk about |
| 0:58.6 | what he was going to do going forward. It was all directed at President Trump. |
| 1:04.5 | It's either that or, like, you know, I'm marching to, like, a fascist nightmare, basically. |
| 1:17.9 | Polls, at least at the moment, point to Donald Trump being the Republican candidate again. |
| 1:21.9 | And if Joe Biden is almost certainly going to be reconfirmed at the Democratic nominee, |
| 1:26.5 | we have a 2020 rerun. Is that what people want? |
| 1:30.6 | There are only 6% of Americans that would like to see both Trump and Biden run. |
| 1:34.7 | Wow. 6%. |
| 1:36.7 | We're hurtling toward a rematch that nobody seems to want. |
| 1:41.8 | Well, 6% do, I guess. |
| 1:43.5 | You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. I'm Luke Jones. |
| 1:53.1 | Today, are we heading for a Biden Trump rematch? |
| 2:07.4 | I'm Alistair Dorber, the Washington correspondent of the Times in the Sunday Times. |
| 2:12.4 | And what did you think, Alistair, when President Biden finally declared he was going to run again? |
| 2:19.5 | Well, it wasn't a surprise. In truth, he's been suggesting for months now that he's |
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