Can Joe Biden win again?

In America last week, a 92-year-old media titan agreed to pay out a $787 million (£632 million) settlement with Dominion Voting Systems on behalf of his network Fox News. This morning, the 80-year-old Democratic president has announced that he is running for re-election next year, even though polls suggest 70 per cent of Americans don’t want him to. Joe Biden will probably end up facing the 76-year-old Donald Trump, the man at the heart of that Fox/Dominion defamation. Welcome to America, the land where dinosaurs rule. 

President Biden spent the weekend at Camp David running through his re-election agenda. His video campaign announcement has just aired, kickstarting another 19 months of unpleasant speculation about his health and fitness for high office. If Biden wins next year, and assuming he doesn’t die or become so incapacitated he has to resign, he will be 85 by the time he leaves the White House. This is not a trifling matter.