Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 194
What Just Happened?
“When President Biden, 81, and Donald Trump, 78, take the debate stage Thursday, they’ll be making history as the two oldest major-party candidates in American history to vie for the Oval Office,” the Washington Post reports.
“They are also both at least 16 years older than the median age of world leaders.”
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