In 2020, “Let’s go Joe!” was the Biden presidential campaign’s clarion call as the Democrat successfully halted four years of Donald Trump chaos. Four years on, with a November rematch looming, the picture looks very different. After a faltering TV debate performance last week, panic is rising among Democrats that the 81-year-old Biden is no longer up to the challenge of defeating Trump again.
Should that slogan now be reframed as “Let’s go, Joe?” We look at the fallout from Biden’s disastrous showing and run the rule over possible alternative candidates, while Jonathan Freedland argues that it would best serve the US nation, not to say the wider world, if Biden were now to step aside.
