Today we're going to talk about my advice for those of you contending with complaints about

Joe Biden's age and I interview one of the three hosts of the new MS NBC show The Weekend,

Simone Sanders Townsend, about what we should look for in the New Hampshire primary, what she thinks about the warning science

regarding Trump's performance in Iowa and her reaction as a longtime campaign official to

low Biden polling right now.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to no lie. So I know a lot of listeners, like me, are encountering the right-wing talking point that's

really broken through here and that is this idea that Joe Biden is too old.

Andrew Yang and Dean Phillips are out there

validating Republican attacks by repeating it

for their own self-important reasons.

So here's my response to that, and hopefully this can be helpful.

And this is for anyone by the way who recognizes the dangers of a second Trump term.

Like if you're pro-Trump then this will mean nothing to you.

But I know that there are well-intentioned Democrats and independence and even pro-democracy

Republicans who are earnestly trying to navigate this issue. So if you recognize the

dangers of a Trump presidency and you are using this important moment where we are literally teetering on the brink of autocracy to perpetuate right-wing talking points about Biden's age, if that's what you're doing with this time, then you are helping usher in the very future that you claim to want to avoid.

Like there's this cognitive dissonance in which Joe Biden is supposedly too old to do the job

that he is literally excelling at right now.

Like look at the economy.

The most jobs ever added in a single term,

the stock market at a record high,

consumer sentiment is surging,

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