White House Report Card: Angry-old-man campaign begins

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This week’s White House Report Card acknowledges the beginning of the fall presidential campaign after President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump took enough delegates during Super Tuesday’s primaries to cement their position as party nominees.

Biden, at 81, would be the oldest president to run for reelection, but at 77, Trump is no spring chicken. And Biden, in his State of the Union address, and Trump in his reaction, both indicated that it will be an angry campaign with both yelling versions of Clint Eastwood’s iconic line in Gran Torino, “Get off my lawn.”

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