In an insightful interview where he analyses and discusses Joe Biden’s future as the Democratic candidate in the US presidential election in November, Edward Luce, the chief US commentator and columnist of the Financial Times, says the principle people who can persuade Joe Biden to stand down and opt out of the November election are his wife, Jill, and, possibly, his son, Hunter.

At the moment, Jill Biden is deeply committed to the Biden family mantra/law that when you fall down you stand up and fight back but it’s possible that she might come to accept that if, in the present circumstances, Biden loses to Trump his legacy will be reduced to ashes and he will only be remembered as the man who insisted on fighting for a job he was no longer capable of doing and, in the process, endangered everything he and his Party stand for.

Luce, also discusses who might be Biden’s replacement on the Democratic ticket. He assesses Kamala Harris’s prospects as well as those of California Governor Gavin Newsom and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

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