Commonwealth Club Of California Podcast

“What the world saw at Joe Biden’s one and only debate was not an anomaly—it was not a cold, it was not someone who was under or overprepared, it was not someone who was just a little tired. It was the natural result of an 81-year-old man whose faculties had been diminishing for years. Biden, his family, and his team let their self-interest and fear of another Trump term justify trying to put an at times addled old man in the Oval Office for four more years.”—Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, in Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again The 2024 presidential election was one of the most consequential elections in American history, yet it could have unfolded in a very different manner. President Joe Biden, who stepped down late in the campaign to make way for his younger vice president Kamala Harris, could have made that decision months earlier. Instead, surrounded by fierce defenders, Biden waited until the nominating conventions were already underway. Two of