Biden The Incumbent

Rodney Clough
3 min readJun 20, 2024

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On the eve of the first 2024 Presidential debates, incumbency is not working so well for the President.

One effect of maintaining division in a democracy is to hasten a mistrust in what is considered incumbency. Incumbency and division or divisiveness become strange bed partners.

Our entertaining incumbency as a vote-getting “cause” is based on three notions,

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Rodney Clough

Refuses to nap. Septuagenarian. Cliche’ raker. Writes weekly.