When his staff kind of keep him buttoned up and reading off a teleprompter, he sounds and looks really stumbling. But when he gets off the cuff, he has more life and energy to him. Look at what happened during the state of the union when Republicans started yelling him about his accusations on their plans on Medicare and Social Security. I think he ended up winning. The Republicans looked very small.
It’s hard to believe, but the 2024 presidential election is already off and running, and there’s grumbling in both parties. Some Republicans want to put Donald Trump behind them, and some Democrats worry 80-year-old Joe Biden might not be up to the long slog of a presidential campaign.
Bloomberg’s managing editor for US government Flavia Krause-Jackson, national political correspondent Joshua Green, and White House correspondent Jordan Fabian join this episode to tell us what to pay attention to–and what’s just noise.
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