Should Joe Biden step aside?
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The Times
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🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Polling ahead of next year’s election shows a majority of Americans think Biden is too old to be president. Rambling speeches, stumbles, and his advancing years are a cause for alarm in the Democratic Party. As he turns 81 today, is it time for him to step aside for another candidate?
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| 1:10.0 | Would you believe it, US President Joe Biden is 81 years old today and he doesn't like a day over 80. |
| 1:18.0 | But as he limbers up for his 2024 re-election campaign, many in his own party are starting to say the best gift might be retirement. The five alarm fire a cardiac case in need of a defibrillator a slow march into the sea to |
| 1:47.0 | drown that is how 2024 is being described by Democratic strategists who are worried Joe Biden can't do what he did in 2020. |
| 1:57.0 | The issue, a steady stream of awkward gaffes and confused blunders which have left many wondering is Joe Biden |
| 2:06.0 | the oldest president the US has ever had passed it it is noteworthy that the |
| 2:12.2 | percentage of women who registered to vote and cast a ballot |
| 2:15.3 | is consistently higher than the percentage of the men who do so. |
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| 2:24.0 | With just under a year until the US presidential election, |
| 2:28.0 | remember they like to drag these things out. |
| 2:30.0 | Would ditching Biden for someone who doesn't have a birthday cake overflowing with candles be a better opponent against Trump? |
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