Washington Week with The Atlantic

Who has more to prove in the first 2024 debate between Biden and Trump

Season 2024 Episode 25 | 13m 18s

President Biden and the man he defeated in 2020, Donald Trump, will make their respective cases to the American people in a debate next week. Both are unpopular, they are more or less tied in recent polls, and both men are older than our previous oldest president. Only one is a convicted felon, yet the pressure is on Biden to prove that he has what it takes to continue in office.

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