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Nearly half of Democrats fretfully tell pollsters that President Biden is too old’ Now ends our summer of discontent.
Biden returns from G20 economic conference triumphant, conducting complex diplomacy edging out China , and heralding a host of deliverables.
Yet the poll numbers are unmoved.
Frida Ghitis: Joe Biden's poll numbers among Democrats are hollow, but there is no movement to supplant him.
She says Biden 's judgment is not attributable to abstract experience, but concrete experiences.
Ghitis says Robert F Kennedy Jr’s entry now is not a case of the first time as tragedy, the second as farce, but simply pathos.
He says Democrats loathing for his spiraling descent into ever more baroque conspiracy theories, but instead profound sadness at public display of his affliction.
Sidney Blumenthal is the author of The Permanent Campaign , published in 1980 , and All the Power of the Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln 1856-1860 .
He is the former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton .
Blumenthal: The election of 2024 will be the second referendum on Trump , but the first held on the attempted coup of January 6 t.
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