Biden Comes in From the Cold

The president goes down in the political equivalent of a TKO, but the real problem was neither his age nor infirmity.

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President Biden delivers a nationally televised address from the Oval Office of the White House on July 14, 2024 at Washington, DC. Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images

President Biden’s decision to drop his bid for a second term will be widely attributed to his age and infirmities. We’re skeptical of that. Not that we’re blind. Everyone can see the difficulties he faced. Our reckoning of the failure of Mr. Biden’s effort for reelection, though, is that he had already moved too left for the American voters, on both domestic and foreign affairs. At the end of the fight, he had no way but to come in from the cold.

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