President Joe Biden departed Tuesday for the US Virgin Islands, exchanging a deadly snowstorm for a Caribbean vacation — and an expected New Year’s resolution to seek re-election in 2024. | AFP
The first half of his term saw the peak and ebb of the Covid pandemic, a humiliating exit from the two-decades-old Afghanistan war, 40-year-high inflation, and the continuing fallout from his Republican predecessor Donald Trump’s attempt to upend US democracy.
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans are in disarray as they prepare to take over the House of Representatives in January, and Trump, still the party’s dominant leader, faces multiple legal threats.ADVERTISEMENT Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s physician, concluded in his annual report a year ago that apart from relatively minor signs of old age, the president was in excellent health and “fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.”
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