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Trump or Biden . Does age matter? |
Trump or Biden - does age matter? According to Time magazine there are polls thgatr indicate that voters are more worried about the 81 year old president than his 77 year old rival, Donald Trump. They state that a report in February 24 alleged that Jo Biden had exhibited multiple memors lapses. Evidently Biden has aged more than Trump in recent years. One man who was interviewed said he could not bring himself to vote for Biden even though he had always voted for the Democrats. Quote: "The word salad, the stumbling, you know, standing on a stage and looking like - honest to God, he looks like my grandfather did. My grandfather had Alzheimer's." The pair are the oldest candidates for the presidency in history and Time says the two are working on make the other guy look doddy, senile and infirm but of course their own candidate be the epitomy of vim and vigour. In a report on Biden's handling of classified documents, Special Counsel Robert Hur, a Republican and former Trump appointee, said he wasn't bringing charges against Biden, but alleged the President couldn't remember basic facts and described him as "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." Trump's people immediately stated that the president was senile to which the President retorted "My memory is fine". But the Biden team are quick on the draw too. A new ad from the Biden camp highlights how Trump recently confused Nikki Haley, his last remaining opponent for the GOP nomination, with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The Biden ad even features a clip of Haley saying, "He's not what he was in 2016. He has declined." However in the polls for the Primaries and the General Election Trump is still dominating. His spokesman Steven Cheung wrote in a statement to TIME magazine. "There is no other candidate in history who has the energy and stamina President Trump has, and he will out-work and out-pace Joe Biden to save America." Arguably, some of Biden's stumbles have been worse than Trump's. In 2022, Biden asked whether a congresswoman who had recently died in a car accident was at a White House event. Last year, he referred to the war in Ukraine as the war in Iraq. At a campaign event in Las Vegas this month, Biden suggested he recently met with former French President François Mitterrand, who died almost thirty years ago, before quickly correcting himself. Later, he confused German Chancellor Angela Merkel with the late Helmut Kohl. On Thursday, he mixed up the Mexican and Egyptian presidents. Meanwhile, some voters have the impression that Biden is dodging the public. A recent Gallup survey indicated that fewer than a third of Americans would be willing to vote for an otherwise qualified nominee of their party over eighty years old. A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that three quarters of Americans, including more than half of Democrats, think Biden is too old to work in government, with only half of voters and a third of Republicans saying the same thing about Trump. A January NBC poll found nearly identical numbers saying they had concerns about Biden's health, while less than half of respondents said the same thing about Trump. Trump states that "Age is interesting 'cause some people are very sharp and some people do lose it," adding, "But no, he's not too old at all. He's grossly incompetent. You look at some of the great world leaders, they were in their 80s and they did - Churchill, so many people, they were phenomenal in their 80s. There's a great wisdom if you're not in a position like him." -pw- London with thanks to Time Magazine. |
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