Only two months in and the 2024 campaign is not aging well
When the top two candidates for the presidency are 77 and 81, age is not just a number, it's a vulnerability.
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When the top two candidates for the presidency are 77 and 81, age is not just a number, it's a vulnerability.
Critics have called Robert K. Hur's descriptions of President Biden's memory outside his purview. Others say his narrative was probably motivated by seeking to justify not charging Mr. Biden.
A federal investigator said that President Biden had “poor memory” and “diminished faculties.” But such a diagnosis would require close medical assessment, experts said.
The broad conclusion, both inside and outside US President Joe Biden’s inner circle, is that a dangerous and misleading caricature of his performance was at risk of setting in.
When President Joe Biden appeared at a last-minute news conference Thursday night, he hoped to assure the country of his mental acuity hours after a special counsel’s report had devastatingly referred to him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”