Irish Examiner view: Biden’s stumbles change the game

Modern candidates for office really don’t have to do much these days other than wait for their under-pressure rivals to shoot themselves in the foot

President Joe Biden, left, and first lady Jill Biden at the presidential debate watch party in Atlanta. Picture: Evan Vucci/AP Photo

The comment was first heard on Wednesday night during an uninspiring debate between two candidates bidding to take charge of Britain, the world’s sixth-largest economy.

And the question could equally be applied 24 hours later to the two men hoping to run the globe’s number one financial power after Thursday’s ill-tempered encounter at the CNN studios in Atlanta, Georgia.