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Biden is a good man and my friend, but he must bow out

If there was ever a time that the world needs America at its best, it is now — because we are at the start of the biggest disruptions in human history.

Thomas Friedman
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I watched the Biden-Trump debate alone in a Lisbon, Portugal, hotel room, and it made me weep.

I cannot remember a more heartbreaking moment in American presidential campaign politics in my lifetime, precisely because of what it revealed: Joe Biden, a good man and a good president, has no business running for re-election.

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