Lorcan Nyhan: More mistakes from Joe Biden are inevitable, and so is Kamala Harris’s ascent

Most US voters feel Joe Biden is too old. Photo: Getty

Lorcan Nyhan

Last Thursday, a week on from his calamitous CNN debate performance, Joe Biden gave an interview to WURD radio in Philadelphia. The interview was part of an on-going clean up job: attempts by his campaign to calm Democratic fears that the US president is no longer up to the task of taking on Donald Trump.

But during it, he garbled a few points together and ultimately said he was proud to have been “the first black woman to serve with a black president”.