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The Big Takeaway from Biden’s Extremely Rough Debate Night
Almost exactly five years ago to this day, following the first Democratic presidential primary debate of the 2020 election cycle, a then-colleague wrote a column about how Joe Biden was old. “The question has been whether he’s too old-fashioned, too much …