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Biden’s age is a hot topic as he looks to extend his time in the Oval Office until he is 86
CNN ^ | February 16, 2023 | Phil Mattingly

Posted on 02/16/2023 2:31:36 PM PST by Trump20162020

Biden’s age is “omnipresent” in nearly every conversation, one person involved told CNN, at a time when he’s preparing for a reelection announcement that would try to extend his time in the Oval Office until he is 86 years old.

To many top Democratic operatives and officials looking ahead, Biden’s age is the top issue of his reelection campaign – in essence, what he’s running against, at least until a Republican nominee emerges, according to CNN’s conversations with three dozen White House aides, elected officials, leading Democratic operatives and others beginning to prepare for the race ahead.

Still, voters bring Biden’s age up constantly in focus groups. Many veer toward assuming he must be ineffective or being puppeteered: “‘brain dead,’ ‘mush’ – ‘dementia’ is a word that comes up all the time,” said one person who observed multiple focus group sessions during campaigns last year.

Voters young and old often say they can’t really believe he’s going to run. Mocking him as ancient or asleep has become an easy joke for late night comedians. Many prominent Democrats privately say some panicky version of what Robert Reich, the 76-year-old former secretary of labor, wrote recently: Biden’s age is “deeply worrying, given what we know about the natural decline of the human brain and body.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024; biden; joebiden
Methinks the GOP would be wise to not make this a moot campaign issue next year by nominating someone close to the same age as Joe Biden.
1 posted on 02/16/2023 2:31:36 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Notice the coordination with Nikki Haley.


2 posted on 02/16/2023 2:33:11 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Trump20162020

yeah they are going to try but its not age its cognitive decline


3 posted on 02/16/2023 2:39:25 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Trump20162020

i still believe that biden will be convinced/coerced to drop out a la classified docs/hunter scandal

it has the dual purpose of getting rid of kommiela without looking like she was pushed out

she will be on her own and will get crushed in the primaries


4 posted on 02/16/2023 2:41:26 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Trump20162020

gop will f-up and nominate Trump, cancelling out Biden’s senility argument.


5 posted on 02/16/2023 2:41:54 PM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: Trump20162020

CNN is pushing Gavin Newsom...bet on this one.

There will be plenty of people who will vote for him as he’s the next “Silky Pony” to quote Rush Limbaugh.

I know because I am dating someone who thinks he’s the cat’s meow. CNN said so, of course.


6 posted on 02/16/2023 2:48:10 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Kaiser8408a
Donald Trump was born in 1946, Joe Biden in 1942. Trump will be 78 in November 2024, while Biden was actually 77 on Election Day 2020.

If you said Joe Biden was too old during the 2020 campaign, you'd be pretty hypocritical to claim Trump's age is just fine during the 2024 cycle.

7 posted on 02/16/2023 2:56:11 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

When has hypocrisy ever bothered a Rat?


8 posted on 02/16/2023 3:00:00 PM PST by Reily
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To: Trump20162020

He looks a very old 82.


9 posted on 02/16/2023 3:04:26 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: packagingguy
I know because I am dating someone who thinks he’s the cat’s meow.


10 posted on 02/16/2023 3:17:52 PM PST by BipolarBob (The rumor has not been confirmed until the FBI officially denies it.)
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To: ifinnegan

He’s in his prime, obviously.


11 posted on 02/16/2023 3:28:17 PM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Trump20162020

“Good ol’ Joe, the wise elder statesman” will be the media’s narrative.


12 posted on 02/16/2023 3:52:03 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Kaiser8408a

Are you expecting a VOP victory? A ham sandwich named “Biden” could run against any GOP candidate and the ham sandwich would win in a landslide.


13 posted on 02/16/2023 4:08:44 PM PST by It Aint Easy
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To: packagingguy

Sonny Hostin of “The View” said her dream team was Gavin Newsom and Stacy Abrams.


14 posted on 02/16/2023 4:17:15 PM PST by 1956tbyrd
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To: 1956tbyrd
Sonny Hostin of “The View” said her dream team was Gavin Newsom and Stacy Abrams.

OH... MY... GAWD.

15 posted on 02/16/2023 4:59:24 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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