Fergus Finlay: Biden has a massive battle ahead, but I back him to beat Trump

Joe Biden has to beat Donald Trump the hard way. Old-fashioned campaigning, standing on a soapbox when he has to, fighting for every single vote.

Former President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden. Biden has to win the election — because a second Trump presidency would do untold damage to the world. Picture: Patrick Semansky

Already it seems like a long time ago, but it was actually only a couple of months. A man called Robert Hur was appointed to conduct an enquiry into whether Joe Biden had done anything potentially criminal with state papers, anything he should be prosecuted for. In due course he issued a report finding that as it happened, the President had done nothing wrong.

It was a long report — 350 pages, several appendices — so no one could accuse your man of not being thorough. It dealt a lot with notebooks that Joe Biden had written and kept over many years, just like Ronal Reagan and others had done before him with no questions ever being asked. It acknowledged several times that Joe Biden and his people had been entirely cooperative and honest, and that everything the government wanted back they got, without a single demur.