When will Biden go?

Joe Biden managed to misname the Ukrainian President as Vladimir Putin and his own Vice-President ads Donald Trump. Now everyone makes naming flubs from time to time, but to do two such high profile ones at the very event that was designed to lay to rest concern about his cognitive abilities, means the concerns will not go away. I still think it is when,. not if, he goes.

Now to give credit the substance of his press conference on foreign and economic policy was quite solid – definitely good enough that today won’t be the tipping point when Pelosi makes the phone call. But it is delayed, not cancelled.

You also have to be careful not to be grading on a curve. Yes the President of the United States managed to give a coherent press conference. That is a good thing, but I would expect a NZ backbench MP such as a select committee chair to also be able to give a coherent press conference.

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