Voters are concerned about Joe Biden’s age. Republicans are obsessed with Joe Biden’s age. Donald Trump, specifically, has been trying for several years now to portray the president as a cognitively impaired punch line who is halfway to the grave. (That Trump is just three years younger than Biden, and thinks he has the mind of a man half his age because he passed a test that is used to screen for dementia, is naturally hardly mentioned.)
Obviously, given a choice next November between someone who incited an actual insurrection and someone who hasn’t, people should go with the latter, regardless of age. (And, again, they’re basically the same age!) Still, it would be nice if people on Team Biden could come up with a better response to questions on the matter than Hey, folks, he got a pulse! Which is basically what Kamala Harris said a few days ago.
Asked during a 60 Minutes interview about her electability “should something befall President Biden, and he is not able to run,” the vice president told host Bill Whitaker, “I’m not gonna engage in that hypothetical, ’cause Joe Biden is very much alive and running for reelection.” Which is not a lot better than saying, He’s not literally dead.
Unfortunate word choice aside, a Weekend at Bernie’s–style Biden would arguably still be better than a second round of Trump. Meanwhile, the right’s attacks on Biden’s cognitive functioning have only gotten more ridiculous of late, given that, in the last six weeks alone, Trump has: mixed up the leaders of Hungary and Turkey; confused Jeb Bush and George W. Bush; suggested Barack Obama was his 2016 election opponent; and didn’t know what state he was in on Sunday.
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