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OPINION - The Standard View: Biden must accept reality: he can’t win

It has taken actor George Clooney to articulate the truth that most Democrat political leaders won’t: Joe Biden must go. In an article in the New York Times, he said the Biden he met recently was not the Biden of 2010 — “he wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 202 ... we are not going to win in November with this president”.

By contrast, former speaker Nancy Pelosi more cautiously said: “It’s up to the president to decide whether to run”, ignoring his insistence that he was determined to run. There is unusual interest in his speech to Nato leaders today, not for what he says about US support for Nato, but about how coherently he says it.

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