Irish Examiner view: Joe Biden has realised it’s time to step back — but it may be too late

This sad but inevitable end to the Biden presidency may well have provided a match advantage to the Republicans

Doubts about the robustness of US president Joe Biden were circulating in Democrat circles long before the 90 miserable minutes he endured during his TV debate with Donald Trump. Picture: Patrick Semansky/AP

Recent research in the United States speculated why some senior citizens are ready and happy to stand down from their jobs, while others will never consider it. 

As a timely piece of backstory to Sunday’s overdue decision by Joe Biden to relinquish the American presidency, it shed some light on the differing motivations.