The bubble to protect President Joe Biden is crumbling

Published on July 3, 2024 at 04:35. / Modified on July 3, 2024 at 06:38.

The Democrats are calling for Joe Biden to renounce his candidacy four months before the American presidential election, while he is ahead of Donald Trump in the polls. He was planning to make a big splash during the first debate with his opponent last Thursday in Atlanta. It was a disaster.

Unable to finish his sentences, losing his train of thought, often absent to counter Donald Trump’s lies and clumsily defending his otherwise flattering political record, the president, aged 81 – a record in American annals – has on the contrary stirred up a storm in his own camp that he has been unable to calm.

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