Joe Biden coughs during his speech on the South Lawn
(Picture: REUTERS)Don’t write off the President or the Democrats just yet. Joe Biden has gone through life flipping between the best and worst luck imaginable. He was a hopeful 29-year-old senator when his wife and baby daughter died in a car crash. He was laughed off the presidential campaign trail when he came fourth in the Iowa caucus but it wasn’t long before he was applauded for beating Donald Trump.
These swings of fortune have come to define his presidency. Last month, sick with Covid, watching Roe v Wade overturned in the Supreme Court, gas prices spiralling, his signature spending bill apparently buried for good, Biden could have been forgiven for thinking he’d finally run out of luck. The President’s popularity had sunk below that of Donald Trump in his worst weeks and his party seemed to be heading for catastrophe in the mid-term elections — in Washington the question the pundits were asking was why Biden had failed.
