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Biden will be scrutinized as much as he will be listened to during his State of the Union speech this Thursday.
The American president spent last weekend at the Camp David residence, in Maryland, preparing with his advisers the traditional speech that he must deliver to the two houses of Congress together.
The stakes of this speech are enormous for Joe Biden.
As is customary, the president must present to the Americans the achievements of his Administration and its objectives.
But he knows he will also be watched closely.
Candidate for his own re-election, already at 81 years old the oldest president in American history, Biden raises questions about his ability to hold presidential office for four more years.
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Republicans have long presented him as a senile old man.
Social media is flooded with video montages where he barely seems able to articulate a sentence.
But, beyond the caricatures, the signs…
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