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How Biden Can Defuse the Age Problem

It’s actually pretty easy.

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Jonathan V. Last
Feb 12, 2024
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My headline probably oversells it: Biden can’t defuse the political problems his age creates for him. But he can mitigate them. We’ll talk about morality and justice and all of that in a minute—and also about whether or not Biden should pull out of the race.

But first I want to lay out the strategy Biden’s team should be using. It has three components:

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