President Biden recently appeared to be “dazed and confused” while giving a speech containing several gaffes and other signs of elderly age, which have become common in his public speaking engagements. Such incidents have begun to shake the faith of American voters that Biden is fit for the presidency.
Biden spoke alongside Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, addressing healthcare costs in America. The conservative X account managed by the Republican National Committee, RNC Research, posted footage of the speech with the caption, “Biden – dazed and confused – shakes hands with socialist Bernie Sanders, ignores questions, shuffles right back out the door.”
Incidents such as this have become all too prevalent throughout Biden’s time in the White House, where he demonstrates evidence that he is aging and his mental and physical faculties may be declining. This has sparked legitimate discourse of whether the 81-year-old president may be too old for another term.
According to recent polling from Quinnipiac University, 67% of survey participants said they believed Biden is too old to serve as president, juxtaposed with 41% who said they believe Trump is too old. Moreover, another poll from ABC News and Ipsos found that an astounding 86% of Americans believe Biden is too old for another term in the White House.
As shown by this data, the Biden campaign is facing an uphill battle against the American public’s perception, where many believe he is not fit for the job. Furthermore, these concerns were validated earlier this year when an official government report expressed concerns about Biden’s age and recollection.
Special Counsel Robert Hur, who was charged with investigating Biden’s handling of classified information, partly determined that criminal charges should not be pursued based on the president’s elderly age and apparent complications with memory.
Hur said, “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory . . . It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—by then a former president well into his eighties of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.” Watch Biden’s “dazed and confused” moment below:
The report continued, “In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (“if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?”), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (“in 2009, am I still Vice President?”), He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he “had a real difference” of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama. In a case where the government must prove that Mr. Biden knew he had possession of the classified Afghanistan documents after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial, his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall.”
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