 appalling performance, as proof of what they had claimed all along, that Biden is a doddering old man. But there's a problem. We were so busy picking Joe Biden apart that we missed the bigger picture. Three days after the presidential debate, France had an election. For the first time since World War II, the right-wing won. In 2014, the national rally, the winning French right-wing party had accepted a $10 million loan from Vladimir Putin.