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President Biden will never be a great communicator, but his latest riff at a campaign fundraiser on the threat of nuclear Armageddon won’t reassure anyone. He succeeded mainly in demonstrating his own anxiety, which isn’t the right message to send
or the American people.
Rolling along Thursday in routine remarks about the reasons donors should support Democrats—after comments on Africa and before the Supreme Court—Mr. Biden chose to dilate on the end of the world.
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“Think about it. We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis. We’ve got a guy I know fairly well; his name is Vladimir Putin. I spent a fair amount of time with him. He is not joking when he talks about the potential use of tactical and nuclear weapons, or biological or chemical weapons, because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming,” Mr. Biden told the Democratic…
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