Biden's a bust and Democrats must go for broke to get him out

THE ridiculous claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 US presidential election was the first big lie to infect its politics.

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Now Joe Biden has presented Democrats with a big lie of his own. Will his party swallow the whopper that he is fit to be president for the next four-and-a-half years? If yes, why on earth would voters go along with this charade?

There are plenty of Americans who would rather vote for a dead Biden than a live Trump, but not enough to win. Has anybody asked what the under-thirties think? The young will not get out of bed for this 81-year-old president. And not just them —according to a CBS poll, 72 per cent of the electorate believe Biden is too gaga to lead. Optimistically, he could be out of the race by next week, particularly if he flubs a friendly, pre-recorded interview with ABC, scheduled for the July 4 weekend.

After last week’s car-crash debate, the Democratic commentator James Carville observed: “That which can’t continue… won’t.” The cold, cruel reality that Joe Must Go is only just sinking in. The Democrats are staring down the barrel of a gun with only two outcomes: Biden either quits the presidential race or he loses to Trump. Pretending there is a third option in which fully sentient voters ignore the evidence of their own eyes about Biden’s advancing dotage is unworthy of a great party.

The top echelons of the party have finally woken up to the seriousness of the situation. The problem is Biden hasn’t. He has been huddling with his former crack-addicted son, Hunter, First Lady Jill — whose wretched Marie Antoinette impersonation on the cover of Vogue is one for the history books — and a gaggle of confidants, some of whom are older than he is and all of whom depend on him for jobs and influence. If it is democracy the Bidens are trying to save, who are they kidding with this unelected bunch?