Biden says in rare print interview he’ll beat Trump but polls say otherwise
by Martin Pengelly in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6K2WK)
US president tells New Yorker he is the only one who has ever beat' Trump but clear majorities think he is too old for second term
In a rare print interview, Joe Biden addressed fears over his chances of victory in the coming US presidential election and said he was the only one who has ever beat" his likely Republican challenger, Donald Trump, adding: And I'll beat him again."
But the president was voicing a conviction at odds with most polling, in which clear majorities think that at 81 he is too old for a second term and narrow majorities put Trump ahead in a general election match-up.
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