US President Joe Biden with Irish counterpart Michael D. Higgins, Dublin, April 13, 2023
I joined the Irish Independent’s Indo Daily podcast to analyze Joe Biden’s fateful decision to run for a second term and how it opened the door for Donald Trump’s damaging return to the White House.
Cutting through the headline hype about Biden’s mental and physical condition, Lorcan Nyhan of The Communications Clinic and I detail why he overturned his pledge to be a one-term President. We consider how Biden’s family and inner circle protected him until his disastrous debate appearance in June 2024, and why Democrats did not force his withdrawal until it may have been too late to stop Trump.
I go farther in considering how the media attention — then and now — pushed aside the Biden Administration’s achievements and gave Donald Trump a pass over his incompetence, falsehoods, and pursuit of autocracy.
And amid doom and gloom from many pundits about the Democratic Party, I consider how it could limit and overturn Trump’s damage, even before the Congressional mid-term elections of November 2026.
