Joe Biden's Covid Case Delivers Latest Blow to Hard-Luck Campaign

While Biden's Covid symptoms are mild, the diagnosis both removes him from the campaign trail and thrusts his health back into the spotlight

President Joe Biden can't catch a break.

The president's hopes of counter-programming the Republican National Convention were dashed Wednesday after he learned he had contracted COVID-19, forcing him to cancel an appearance before a key Latino advocacy group.

While Biden's symptoms are mild, the diagnosis both removes him from the campaign trail and thrusts his health back into the spotlight - all at a critical moment when he is trying desperately to prove that concerns over his age and mental acuity are overblown.