For the Good of the Country, Biden Shouldn’t Run Again

Given his increasing wobbliness, the risks of a health crisis in a second term are too high.

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President Joe Biden speaks about his economic agenda in Cleveland, Ohio, July 6, 2022.

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Perhaps the best decision Joe Biden could make as president would be to stand down.

It would be a welcome act of statesmanship and self-awareness if the 79-year-old president dropped the insistence that he’s running for a second term and instead announced, sometime after the November midterms, that he isn’t running again.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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