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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Gene Lyons

Biden’s age is a non-issue

President Joe Biden claps as comedian Roy Wood Jr. speaks at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton on April 29. (AP)

Despite my own advanced age, I have relatively little to say about Joe Biden’s. If I were in his shoes, I’d accept the thanks of a grateful nation and step aside. Apparently, that puts me among the majority of Americans, 70% of whom in a recent NBC News poll said he shouldn’t run for reelection. Almost as many said his age is a factor. The president is 80.

He’d be 86 at the end of his second term. That’s downright ancient.

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