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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Jitendra Joshi

Anxious Democrats break ranks with Joe Biden over troubled re-election

President Joe Biden’s support among elected Democrats appeared to be fraying as senior members of Congress openly raised doubts about his faltering re-election bid.

The 81-year-old Mr Biden failed in his attempts to explain away his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, 78, when he told an ABC interviewer on Friday that only “the Lord almighty” could persuade him to drop out of the White House race. 

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