Joe Biden’s old classmate barely recognised his friend at the presidential debate. Staring gormlessly into the camera and struggling to finish his sentences, it was not the razor-sharp orator Robert Markel had come to admire over the years.
“I don’t know that Joe Biden. There must have been some reason for it, but I’d never encountered that Joe before,” said Markel, a friend of Biden since their days at the private Catholic school Archmere Academy in Delaware.
