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Biden Should Step Aside, But It’s Never Going to Happen<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters</p> <p>President <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-is-old-get-over-it">Joe Biden’s age</a> is getting to be like the weather. Everybody complains about it, but nobody does anything about it.</p> <p>Until now, that is. In years to come, will we point to this September as the month when <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>’s <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-older-activists-are-sick-of-hearing-concerns-about-presidential-candidates-age">age</a> and doddering demeanor became an unacceptable risk?</p> <p>In the event we do, the turning point will likely have been a <em>Washington Post</em> column written by David Ignatius, titled, “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/12/biden-trump-election-step-aside/">President Biden should not run again in 2024</a>.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-should-step-aside-but-its-never-going-to-happen">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters

President Joe Biden’s age is getting to be like the weather. Everybody complains about it, but nobody does anything about it.

Until now, that is. In years to come, will we point to this September as the month when Joe Biden’s age and doddering demeanor became an unacceptable risk?

In the event we do, the turning point will likely have been a Washington Post column written by David Ignatius, titled, “President Biden should not run again in 2024.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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