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Biden says he wouldn’t have run for second term if he’d known he had cancer

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Biden says he wouldn’t have run for second term if he’d known he had cancer
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Joe Biden says he did not know he had cancer while he was US president and would not have sought a second term if he already had been diagnosed. The former Democratic president’s comments came in an interview with People magazine before the release of his White House memoir on Tuesday. “If I had known that I was feeling lousy because I had cancer,” said Biden, who turns 84 on November 20, “I would’ve not gone forward” with a 2024 re-election bid that ended after a disastrous debate performance..

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  • Biden says he wouldn’t have run for second term if he’d known he had cancer.
  • Joe Biden says he did not know he had cancer while he was US president and would not have sought a second term if he already had been diagnosed.
  • The former Democratic president’s comments came in an interview with People magazine before the release of his White House memoir on Tuesday.

Joe Biden says he did not know he had cancer while he was US president and would not have sought a second term if he already had been diagnosed. The former Democratic president’s comments came in an interview with People magazine before the release of his White House memoir on Tuesday. “If I had known that I was feeling lousy because I had cancer,” said Biden, who turns 84 on November 20, “I would’ve not gone forward” with a 2024 re-election bid that ended after a disastrous debate performance...

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