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Joe Biden says he wouldn’t have run for second term in 2024 if he knew he had cancer

Headline via The Independent · first report 11 Nov, 20:59 IST, latest 12 Nov, 02:25 IST

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3 independent news organisations have reported this story. The first report we saw came from Politico at 11 Nov, 20:59 IST; the latest is from South China Morning Post at 12 Nov, 02:25 IST. Rational Times has not independently confirmed the details: read each report through the links below.

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The former president also called his debate performance “not very consequential” in an interview with People magazine.
Biden was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer months after leaving office in 2025
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…

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