Trump throws Biden a lifeline on the age problem
The Byron York Show
Radio America
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🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Byron York Show, the No Chat Chat podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | We'd like to get right into it and what we're going to talk about today is Joe Biden, Donald |
| 0:12.8 | Trump and the age issue, actually with a cameo appearance by Ron DeSantis as well. |
| 0:19.7 | So the age issue and the weird thing here is that the story is really about former President |
| 0:28.7 | Trump throwing a lifeline to Joe Biden on the age issue. |
| 0:34.0 | Maybe you'll disagree is doing that, but that's what I think he's doing. |
| 0:37.0 | So first of all, what is Joe Biden's biggest liability as he runs for re-election? |
| 0:43.8 | Now Republicans could probably give you a pretty long list of liabilities, but the biggest |
| 0:48.1 | most important is his age. |
| 0:51.3 | He is 80 now would be 82 upon beginning a second term and 86 at the end of that. |
| 0:58.6 | That term and he looks and he sounds every minute of his age. |
| 1:05.9 | Having such a super-annuated chief executive is absolutely unprecedented in American history. |
| 1:12.7 | Now most Americans think Biden is too old to continue, too old for a second term. |
| 1:19.6 | Now look at a big associated press poll that received a lot of attention in August. |
| 1:26.2 | I'm going to read to you from what AP wrote about their poll in the poll. |
| 1:30.8 | Fully 77 percent said Biden is too old to be effective for four more years. |
| 1:37.9 | This is AP reporting. |
| 1:39.4 | Quote, not only do 89 percent of Republicans say that, so do 69 percent of Democrats. |
| 1:46.7 | That view is held across age groups, not just by young people. |
| 1:51.1 | 89 percent of Republicans say he's too old. |
| 1:53.3 | Well, of course, the Republicans say they want to get rid of him. |
| 1:55.9 | 89 percent of Democrats say Joe Biden is too old. |
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