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The president's opponents have repeatedly questioned his ability to serve as POTUS amid repeated gaffes, slips on the stairs and even entire statements that the White House was forced to walk back - including some that may have triggered armed conflicts with other countries.
New White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre has laughed off a question from the CNN anchor regarding President Joe Biden's ability to serve beyond 2024.
The question came amid a New York Times report that other Democrat leaders are concerned about Biden’s age and ability to finish a potential second term. Any second Biden term would see him reach 86 by the end.
Jean-Pierre rebuked anchor Don Lemon for asking whether Biden had "the stamina, physically and mentally" to serve more than one term. She indicated that questioning the state of health of the US commander-in-chief was something beyond journalistic ethics.
"Don, you're asking me this question. Oh my gosh. He's the president of the United States. That is not a question that we should be even asking", Jean-Pierre exclaimed.
While Lemon did not press the spokeswoman further, she nonetheless claimed that 79-year-old Biden is full of energy and that she herself struggles to keep up with him, mentioning his recent trips to California and New Mexico as part of the presidential routine.
DON LEMON: "Does the president has the stamina, physically and mentally, do you think to continue on even after 2024?"
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "That is not a question that we should be even asking" pic.twitter.com/dUfQil9qKp
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 14, 2022
Jean-Pierre proceeded to dismiss allegations that Biden is unfit to serve as "hearsay" and "not what we care about", insisting that people should rather focus on the things that Biden has delivered on.
"We care about how we are going to deliver for the American people. How we're going to make their lives better. That's what the president talks about", the spokeswoman said.
The White House, POTUS and their allies usually mention job growth and the fight against the coronavirus pandemic as the president’s key achievements. When it comes to the acute matters that remain unresolved - such as rampant inflation, record high fuel prices, gun control demands, immigration and the Build Back Better agenda - the White House and Biden either blame Republican opposition in Congress or, most recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The issue of the president's health, specifically in the context of his touted plans to run in 2024, was raised in a recent New York Times article. The journalists asked several prominent Democrats about the issue, with some expressing concerns about Biden's ability to serve another term. Most were confident, however, that Biden would be victorious in 2024, at least against Donald Trump if the latter runs.
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- By Gus Leonisky at 15 Jun 2022 - 3:20pm
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They should be worried about their party’s dismal electoral prospects this fall. But making a swap at the top of the ticket isn’t the solution.Joe Biden is old—79 years old now, he will be 82 when the next president is inaugurated in 2025. He is also underwater in the polls. According to FiveThirtyEight’s poll of polls, fewer than 40 percent of voters rate his presidency positively as of Monday; more than 53 percent disapprove. The Democratic Party is racing to an all-but-certain bloodbath in November’s midterm elections and is likely to lose control of both chambers of Congress. This means that the final two years of Biden’s presidency will be beset by baseless and intrusive investigations (if not impeachment on an endless scroll) and inertia. And none of that covers the worst inflation in decades, numerous geopolitical crises, and whatever other horrors the world unleashes between now and November 2024.
Biden can’t be stuck with all the blame. Much of his legislative agenda fell by the wayside thanks to the inability of Democratic lawmakers to resolve their own internecine negotiations. But Democrats are worried and for good reason. Biden’s age creates a not-unjustified impression that he may not be the ideal person to handle the myriad crises the United States is facing at the moment. Moreover, Biden’s unpopularity has been stubbornly constant—his approval rating has been on the decline for nearly a year. And so it is perhaps no surprise that a murmuration, over whether Biden’s the best choice to run for president in two years’ time, has begun.
Recent stories in New York and The New York Times capture this mix of angst and frustration. The Times noted the “challenges facing the nation mount” and described the party’s “fatigued base,” while observing that many party insiders “feel sorry for [Biden].” New York, meanwhile, set the scene in similar terms: “With Trumpism reascendant, ambivalence about Biden’s age and political standing is fueling skepticism just as the image of his understudy, Vice-President Kamala Harris, dips even further than his.” But while there’s little doubt that the Democrats and Biden are in deep trouble, there isn’t really a solid case to be made that the party should change horses—at least not with months before the midterms and years to go in Biden’s term.
Democrats couldn’t have predicted many of the crises that have caused the Biden presidency to flatline since late August of last year. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was much clumsier than it needed to be. But few foresaw the serious, prolonged threat of inflation—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has only recently offered a mea culpa for her rosier predictions—and now that we’re in its grip, there aren’t many options at the disposal of a president to rapidly reverse the trend. Similarly, the scope of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was also difficult to envision before it kicked off, and the White House has done most of what could realistically be expected in response.
Even so, the big picture for Democrats is hardly shocking. Incumbent parties typically get trounced in the midterm elections, and 2022 will be no different. It is exceedingly rare for incumbent parties to gain ground in the midterm elections. In fact, since the start of the Civil War, it’s only happened twice and in moments of national crisis: Once in 1934 following the launch of the New Deal and again in 2002 after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Biden’s age, meanwhile, didn’t just emerge as a concern; it was a factor in the Democratic primary Biden won, and Donald Trump attempted to make Biden’s cognitive faculties one of the big election storylines when they faced off in the general election. Yes, Biden will be four years older in 2024—but so will we all, including the Republican Party’s most likely nominee, Donald Trump, who will be 78.
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YEP.... WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS IS ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF AN AGEING TELEPROMPTERING IDIOT!!!????.... EITHER OR ONE OR THE OTHER, The old men have done their dash at screwing up the planet in their own style. It's time for fresh blood, young blood of peace....
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