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jmetaB039d34338a07a4d217e7aaf6a0ba4cf4d307ccb933cbe7d72e15dcc0e8d8b978e2@df9fe59142e8384a6970c15c298c7eb05eefe661be8e6833cafbf051e80bfbd1rss.itemmetarss.netM¹<item><description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/joe-biden-school-class-college-debate-delaware-rzvnmzqrn"><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F7f2c04ec-29a6-422b-82b4-5013394e790a.jpg?crop=1600%2C900%2C0%2C0&resize=1200" /></a><div><div><p><span>J</span>oe Biden’s old classmate barely recognised his friend at the presidential debate. Staring gormlessly into the camera and struggling to finish his sentences, it was not the razor-sharp orator Robert Markel had come to admire over the years.</p><p>“I don’t know that Joe Biden. There must have been some reason for it, but I’d never encountered that Joe before,” said Markel, a friend of Biden since their days at the private Catholic school Archmere Academy in Delaware.</p><p>Biden, who at 81 is already the oldest president in American history, would turn 85 in office should he win another term in November. </p><p>• <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/kamala-harris-vp-replace-biden-republicans-attack-ad-99mrtpctl"><b>Kamala Harris more of a match for Donald Trump than Joe Biden, polls say</b></a></p><p>In a poll taken in the days after the</p></div></div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:35:12 GMT</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/joe-biden-school-class-college-debate-delaware-rzvnmzqrn]]></link><dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Biden’s classmates barely recognise him in ‘shocking’ debate]]></title><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/joe-biden-school-class-college-debate-delaware-rzvnmzqrn]]></guid></item>