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 Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden told attendees at a fundraiser in McLean, Virginia on Tuesday that he "wasn't very smart" in the lead-up to his poor debate performance last week—blaming several recent trips to and from Europe for wearing him out in the days leading up to last Thursday's disaster.
"I wasn't very smart," he told donors, according to several reporters in the room. "I decided to travel around the world a couple times, going through I don't know how many time zones — for real I think it [was] 15 time zones… I didn't listen to my staff."
"And then I came back and nearly fell asleep on stage," Biden said, acknowledging his subpar showing.
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 Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyCLACTON-ON-SEA, England—British parliamentary elections have not been kind to Nigel Farage. He's previously failed in no fewer than seven attempts to win a seat in Westminster, one of which nearly killed him, but he remains undeterred. On Thursday, as U.K. voters head to the polls in the general election, the right-wing populist Reform U.K. leader—promising MAGA-style immigration crackdowns and a "patriotic" curriculum in schools—might just secure a place in the House of Commons for the first time.
He'll be mounting his most recent effort at a moment when European voters appear to have developed something of a taste for more hard-core right-wing politics. The latest example came in France, where Marine Le Pen's hard-right National Rally won the largest vote share in the first round of the parliamentary election on Sunday. But whether Britain, a country that overwhelmingly views Donald Trump unfavorably, is ready to embrace a man who seems to be
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