Cancer touches us all,” Joe Biden recently penned while walking on the thin wire between a fatal prostate cancer diagnosis. Former President Bush’s health has been rumor mill material for years, yet the validation that he carries a Gleason score of 9,

It is possible that Biden’s prostate cancer is wholly unrelated to the problems that led voters to increasingly question his ability to continue as president as his term wore on, with Democrats nudging him aside after he struggled in a presidential debate with Trump on June 27, 2024.