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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lloyd Green

The Last Politician review: the case for Joe Biden, polling be damned

Joe Biden speaks to reporters in Hagerstown, Maryland, in February.
Joe Biden speaks to reporters in Hagerstown, Maryland, in February. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

By the polling, Joe Biden is stuck in a footrace with Donald Trump, his 91-times criminally charged predecessor as president. More than three-quarters of voters say Biden is too old to govern effectively. Two-thirds of Democrats wish he would throw in the towel.

The intersection of Biden’s work as vice-president to Barack Obama and what Franklin Foer calls the “dodgy business dealings of son Hunter” haunts the father still. More than three fifths of Americans now believe Joe Biden was involved in Hunter’s business. The impeachment specter hovers.

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