Eighty-year-old Joe Biden’s dilemma

The age of the Democrat has become an indisputable issue. political, social and media talk and discussion while asking Should or shouldn’t be reelected in 2024Like him intensive examination of your physical and mental state. it’s a fact personally offends Biden, By the time he arrived at the White House at the age of 77, he was already the oldest US president in the country’s history. And dilemma He is there for Biden, even as the president and his team try to silence the suspicions and criticism that arise, and he already has a strategy set for the next presidential election. aging experts to warn against ageism.

Announcement in 2023

Biden has repeatedly said: his “intention” is to introduce himself in 2024 then i would be 81 years old and to win 82 at startup and 86 at the end of his term. But last week, at a press conference after the midterm elections, he reiterated that he would take advantage of the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. consultation with the “family”where The main influence is his wife, Jill Biden.. He said he would make an announcement. decision early next yearpossibly an announcement coming in February at State of the Union.

Also under the weight of the president low popularity ratings, This He was more convinced than ever that he should continue. after better-than-expected results for Democrats in the ‘midterms’. He believes that what best speaks to his talent is a look at: legislative agenda that succeeds in advancing In his first two years, even as early as the 2019 campaign, the question of his age played a role in the public debate. And once your faith is increased donald trump, Defeated in 2020, he confirmed this week that he will try to run for the Republican again. Biden’s argument is that he is the only person who can beat Trump, and he is also the person best equipped to do it again.

surveys

The problem for Biden is that doubts about whether it should be real. voices rose in the party itself Democrats like Congressmen Elissa Slotkin, Tim Ryan, Dean Phillips, and Angie Craig “new blood” and one “generational change”It was an argument this week for the powerful Nancy Pelosi to announce that she will not attempt to renew her role as Democratic leader in the Lower House at the age of 82. Progressive group RootsAction.org, “Interview, Joe” Campaign. And the generational change in the presidential candidacy is something many voters especially insist on. young and independentbut not only as many surveys show.

67% of those polled by CNN in this month’s election said they did not want Biden to run in 2024, this percentage includes many Democrats. In another recent Reuters poll, 76% said they saw him as talented and smart, while 46% were Democrats and Of the total, 68% expressed doubts about his candidacy within two years.

In another poll by ‘The Washington Post’, 56% of Democrats voted for the party’s presidential candidate “someone other than BidenIn a July hearing by ‘The New York Times’, two-thirds of Democrats wanted another candidate. Biden’s age as the main concern. And in another from the AP only 30% wanted it on their ballots 2024.

“Completely Legal”

In an interview in October, the same Biden admits it’s ‘totally legitimate’ that voters consider their age, but also want to frame the circumstances of those considerations. “The best way to make that decision is to look at me,” she said. “Am I going slower? Am I going at the same speed?”

Minister had two brain aneurysms He had to have surgery in 1988 due to arterial problems, he is taking anticoagulants and cholesterol and allergy medications and has a Reflux concentrating cough and throat clearing. also performs exercise daily and monitor your weight. And although his team admits that gets tired more easily and when this happens worsening stuttering and more prone to errors (he has often been throughout his political and public life), his focus is on presenting his legislative achievements.

There is also a clear effort to present strong, active and capableespecially emphasizing, a busy schedule events or trips. Just One-week campaign in ‘midterm exams’For example, Biden visited 13 citiespresented five great talks and joined eight rallies and then traveled Egypt, Cambodia and Indonesiaa tour that he attended and organized the climate and G-20 summits Meeting with Xi Jinping lasting more than three hours.

Allies like Senator Chris Murphy are encouraging Biden’s team to release videos that show Biden normally off-camera at meetings where his mind and energy are most evident. And Murphy realizes that this is especially necessary. republicans they especially did physical and mental health Biden one a problem that “has no real basis but could give them political advantages”.

slips and attacks

What Murphy is talking about is drawing attention to the episodes Biden gave. rolling, physical, mental, or verbal: Stuck on the stairs of ‘Air Force One’, breaking his foot while playing with one of his dogs, falling off his bike, pretending to be asleep at public events, or making big mistakes like when he says “two words: Made in America” or specifically, when he called the public at an anti-hunger summit in September by calling the audience for a congressman who died in a car accident last month.

And they’re winning chips widespread carebut what are they brutally exploited by republicans. senator ted cross He wrote on Twitter: “Two Words: Dementia”. And his Senate colleague, Doctor Roger Marshall, said, “We’re all worried about mental health President Biden’s talking without evidence of a “disorder”.

Many aging experts They publicly condemned the attacks on Biden because of his age. Jeffrey Sonenfeld, professor at Yale School of Management, author of a book on post-retirement CEOs and a former member of the National Council on Aging, called for not fitting into a predetermined demographic in an article in ‘Politico’. by age group Biden or Trump would make it 78 if he wins the nomination and presidency. “Compulsory judging them by their personal abilitiesHe defended the expert, giving examples such as the successes achieved by Benjamin Franklin, Charles De Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer as septuagenarian, octogenarian, and nonagenarian, respectively. “Youth is no guarantee of brilliance, and age is no guarantee of wisdom, but still no guarantee of insanity,” he recalled.

Stuart Jay Olshansky, an aging expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago, also told Reuters, “age has always been used as a weapon, and people from the opposite side always try to show that there is a problem with the individual”. “Those of us who study age as a profession say: stop using age as a weapon”, Additional.