Posted on 07/24/2023 5:11:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — The president of the United States tripping and falling is never a good moment in the throes of a re-election campaign. But when the president is 80 years old and already faces concerns that he’s too old for another term, it’s something of a crisis.
Joe Biden’s aides realized they had a problem last month when the president tripped over a sandbag — hard — at the Air Force Academy’s graduation ceremony.
Biden’s answer to voters who question whether he’s up to the rigors of a second term is simple: “Watch me.” The trouble is, voters are watching, and what they’re seeing is hardening impressions that it’s time for him to step aside, polling shows. Apart from being the most taxing job on the world stage, the presidency is also the most public, and signs of advancing age are tough to miss.
“The Democratic Party needs to be responsive to what people are saying about Biden and their concerns that they have with his age,” said one congressional Democrat, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk freely about the president’s fitness. “The number of text messages that I got after the president fell … I mean, my phone was blowing up. People are like, ‘Oh, this is so bad.’”
Faced with life’s unbending reality — no one gets any younger — Biden’s advisers have been trying to blunt concerns about his age since his 2020 campaign. The challenge gets trickier by the day as the oldest president in history embarks on one last race against a Republican Party eager to pounce on every miscue.
Any misstep is bound to be magnified when voters are already prone to believe Biden should consider retirement. Biden aides aren’t promising that he won’t stumble again.
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What “campaign”? Is there even a Biden Campaign office?
“in the throes of a re-election campaign”
Why would they do anything other than hide him in the basement? It worked before.
An article not wildly praising Biden, from NBC? They must have received a new set of orders. Our friends at the Deep State are up to something.
“Republican Party eager to pounce on every miscue”
“Miscue”? That’s what they call Biden’s dementia, a miscue?
My first thought when I saw the article’s source.
Miscue.
It shows that they’ve been cueing him all along. They give the orders to Biden, not the other way around.
Nope. They STOLE a presidential election in 2020 without any consequences whatsoever.
The RINOs are firmly in the Democrat camp when it comes to aiding and abetting the Steal.
The Democrats no longer have to be careful or watch what they say. There will no longer be a reckoning at the ballot box.
The media can even print negative stories about Democrats now because future elections are in the bag, so they don't have to worry that negative stories will turn Independent voters away.
I am older than Biden,pretty good health, think my mental health is much better. I am not running for president or ever will be, but I doubt I could screw it up any worse than Joe Biden has. I don’t know if he’s the worst president America has ever had, but he’s the worst I can remember. My son wouldn’t be working with any foreign business interests either. I know if I were president, the first member of my administration that suggested alternative energy, fancy water heaters,mandating Evs,government funded abortions, open borders, etc. would be shown the door any way possible & as soon as possible
It’s not his age.
It’s his dementia.
ChiComcast.
It’s a modified limited hangout.
“Age” is the whitewash way of saying that his brain is too far gone to process how to walk up and down steps.
Trump had some Bridgeport slip which caused him to slurr a few words, and the msm was screaming for him to step down accusing him of being unfit for office.
Biden constantly smacks the ground or staircases, gets lost on stage, can’t remember key facts, talks gibberish, has to have “shorter stairs” made especially for him because he’s incapable of ascending them without flopping like,a fish out of water, and the media are all “meh, he’s a little old, we can certainly accommodate his few shortcomings”
Liberals suck!
I think their concern is not that Biden is in bad shape, but rather that he looks to be in bad shape. Have him climb stairs in AF1 where he can’t be seen to stumble, give him note cards to tell him who he’s talking to.
Joe’s Delaware RESIDENCE is listed as being the CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS-——
“RENT” will be ANYTHING Joe wants it to be. SO FAR-—ONLY 4 staffers.
re-election ?
When the hell did the first one happen
Three card Monte winks
The Fix Is In. Same as 2020.
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