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Consider This from NPR

Double Standard On Age For Trump And Biden?

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

On June 14, Donald Trump will turn 78 years old.

Joe Biden turned 81 in November.

Whether the candidates like it or not, age, mental acuity and physical fitness are issues dominating the 2024 election cycle.

Though the two men were born fewer than four years apart, voters have consistently expressed more concern about Biden's age than Trump's.

Is a double standard being applied when it comes to the presidential candidates and age?

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0:00.0

Let me say a few things before I take questions.

0:03.0

When President Biden held a press conference on the results of a special counsel's investigation

0:08.8

into whether he mishandled classified information, he wanted to focus on one thing.

0:14.3

I was pleased to see he reached the firm conclusion

0:17.3

that no charges should be brought against me in this case.

0:21.8

Instead, Biden was forced to address something else

0:25.4

that Special Counsel Robert Herr said in his report

0:28.6

that the President came across as a, quote,

0:31.6

well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.

0:34.5

With a poor memory.

0:36.5

I'm well-meaning and I'm an elderly man and I know what the hell I'm doing.

0:40.0

I've been president and I put this country back on his feet. I don't need his recommendation.

0:44.5

That's totally our memory. That's what...

0:47.5

Your memory has gotten worse. Mr. President? My memory is not coming. My memory is

0:51.2

fine. But in defending his memory, Biden misspoke, referring to the president of Egypt as the president of Mexico, which only underscored one of his biggest vulnerabilities as he seeks a second term, his age.

1:06.0

The X factor in all of this, the thing that we keep seeing in poll after poll after poll is concerned about

1:12.1

Biden's age.

1:13.0

Full stop.

1:14.0

74% of registered voters have major or moderate concerns

1:19.0

and the president does not have the mental and physical health necessary.

1:22.8

With a poor memory, he's in the fight of his political life.

1:27.0

At 81, Joe Biden is the oldest sitting president in history.

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