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When President Grandpa Publicly Wishes His Ancestors Had Murdered More People, Invoke the 25th

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President Joe Biden speaks on Day One of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., August 19, 2024.

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Kamala Harris should be president of the United States. I don’t mean she should be elected in November, I mean she should be taking the oath of office this afternoon, because Joe Biden has demonstrated, once again, that he is our national elderly grandfather, rambling in semi-coherence, who needs to be in a rest home, not being propped up as our commander in chief for the next five months.

It’s not just the fact that Biden’s schedule is ridiculously light, and that he’s effectively spent two weeks making almost no public appearances while living in vacation homes, although that too is reason for concern. On Labor Day, at a rally for Kamala Harris, the president told a long, meandering story that concluded with his disappointment that his great-grandfather wasn’t a notorious murderer of coal mine foremen, leaving dead bodies on doorsteps of the victims’ families.

Jim Geraghty

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Jim Geraghty

Jim Geraghty is the senior political correspondent of National Review.

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