US Politics

Marion McKeone: Debate on senility set bar so low for Biden that Trump is now on back foot

The 2024 campaign is under way and Biden has fired the opening salvo while Trump tightens grip on the Republican party

Joe Biden launched his bid for a second term in front of an implacably divided House and Senate

And they’re off. The 2024 presidential campaign is officially under way, with the opening salvo fired by US President Joe Biden during his annual State of the Union address. There are few places Biden is more at home than on Capitol Hill.

Fifty-two years since, by his own admission, he first gazed slack-jawed at its vast rotunda and marble statues, Biden launched his bid for a second term in front of an implacably divided House ...