Biden, Who Built Career on Perseverance, Confronts Its End
- President addresses nation Wednesday on ending campaign
- Biden ultimately unable to shake voter concerns about his age
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President Joe Biden’s decision to stand down from his own reelection campaign marks a particularly frustrating conclusion for a man long convinced of his own ability to seal any deal.
Faced with cratering polls, disenchanted donors, and an apathetic electorate, no combination of Biden’s most celebrated attributes – charm, empathy, stubbornness – could overcome concern that his advancing age left him unable to defeat Donald Trump in November.