• Our first cover of 2024 looks at Joe Biden’s re-election prospects. Mr.Biden’s net approval rating stands at minus 16 points. Donald Trump, leading polls in the swing states where the election will be decided, is a coin-toss away from a second presidential win. Mr.Trump should be unelectable, owing to the 91 felonies with which he has been charged in different parts of America. Yet the 81-year-old Mr.Biden is so unpopular he may well lose. How did it come to this? At the moment the Democrats are sleepwalking towards disaster.
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Edited By
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Editor-in-chief