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The Byron York Show

Trump throws Biden a lifeline on the age problem

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

What is President Joe Biden's biggest liability as he runs for reelection? Republicans could give you a lot of answers, but the most important is the president's age. He's 80 now and would be 82 upon beginning a second term and 86 at the end of it. He looks and sounds every minute of his age. Having such an elderly chief executive is unprecedented in American history.

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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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