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Debate disaster, then three weeks where it all unravelled
At watch parties across America, Democrats looked on with horror as President Biden limped through the opening exchanges of his primetime debate with Donald Trump three weeks ago. Rasping and inarticulate, the 81-year-old president trailed off and garbled …