As America’s oldest president now knows only too well, US politics is a fickle and brutal business. Soon, the oldest candidate in the race may learn the same lesson – from the choice of his running mate.
What in the World, a free weekly newsletter from our foreign correspondents, is sent every Thursday. Below is an excerpt. Sign up to get the whole newsletterWhile a Harris victory is far from assured, the shift in energy and enthusiasm is palpable, reminiscent of Barack Obama’s history-making 2008 presidential campaign.
As America’s oldest president now knows only too well, politics is a fickle and brutal business, where fortunes can change overnight and the only thing you should expect is the unexpected..
“My interpretation is that he is strongly family-oriented but that doesn’t mean if you don’t have a family, there’s something wrong,” the former president said when asked on Wednesday about Vance’s 2021 comments that America was being ruined by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.
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