US-EYE
THE Democrats have a problem: Elizabeth Warren’s laugh. The Massachusetts senator is a former law professor, a formidable wonk and – this is relevant – a vigorous 75-year-old.
On 20 April, she appeared on an obscure film podcast, Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso, and was asked whether she had noticed former US president Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. “Do you regret saying that Joe Biden had a mental acuity, a sharpness – you said that up until July of last year,” Fragoso asked her. Warren replied that she “said what I believed was true”. Fragoso pressed her. “Do you believe that he was as sharp as you?” And then the killer moment: before she can stop herself, Warren’s shoulders convulse and her mouth twitches.