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Today in Focus

Is Biden too old to be president?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden’s age is increasingly becoming a political liability – even though Trump is just four years younger. David Smith reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian. Today it's the question about Joe Biden that his supporters whisper about and his

0:16.0

opponents shout at the top of their lungs. Is he too old for office. jewelers and online cheesemongers.

0:33.0

Anyone?

0:34.0

No, not earrings made of e-dam?

0:37.0

No, not a house made of cheddar.

0:41.0

Come on people, it's workspace. With 4,000 of London's most original businesses

0:47.9

already calling workspace home, whatever it is you do, there's a space for you here.

0:53.2

It all happens at workspace.

0:55.3

Search workspace.co. UK. About eight and a half months out from the US presidential election.

1:11.0

Joe Biden and his team might be feeling like time is on their side.

1:15.7

The US economy is improving and over the next few months lots of Americans might come

1:20.1

to realize it.

1:21.1

That marks three consecutive years of economic growth in Biden's three years in office and

1:25.0

along with more jobs come consistently higher wages.

1:28.5

There's no way to paint this as anything but good. The many cases against Donald Trump, trying to steal elections,

1:34.7

financial fraud, paying off adult film stars and so on, will tie him up in court and keep his alleged

1:40.3

crimes in the headlines. A DC appeals court has rejected former President Trump's claim of immunity from federal prosecution.

1:50.3

There are still months for Biden to find a way to sort out the flow of migrants across the southern border.

1:56.0

By November, the war in Gaza might even be over.

2:00.0

But there's one thing for Joe Biden that time will not improve.

2:05.0

In fact, it's kind of the grim reality of life that time's only going to make it worse.

2:11.0

And now that issue has bursts onto the center stage of the presidential

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