The US vice president, Kamala Harris, sought to ease Democrats’ concerns about her running mate, Joe Biden, at a rally in Las Vegas on Friday, a day after the president’s feeble performance in the first debate of the 2024 election season. Biden’s verbal stumbles and occasionally meandering responses in the debate heightened voter concerns that he might not be fit to serve another four-year term and prompted some fellow Democrats to wonder whether they could replace him as the candidate for the 5 November US election
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