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A Vanishing Biden Reappears at the DNC
President Joe Biden appears onstage for the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, on August 19, 2024. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
He declared he was ‘too young to be in the Senate and too old to stay as president.’ It was sad and unnervingly true.
By Peter Savodnik
08.20.24
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CHICAGO — It was well past 11 p.m. on the East Coast by the time President Joe Biden took the stage Monday at Chicago’s United Center, where the Democratic Convention is taking place this week, to declare: 

“Folks, let me ask you, are you ready to vote for freedom? Are you ready to vote for democracy and for America? Let me ask you, are you ready to elec…

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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