The age of the oldest president of the United States, who is about to turn 80, leads to rejection
The times of politics in the United States are as predictable as the seasons. Not even Donald Trump has dared to announce his candidacy ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, but that’s not to say there isn’t non-stop behind-the-scenes activity.
The greatest unknown is presented by the president, Joe Biden, who, according to tradition, has the right of first refusal, despite his age. Publicly or privately, almost every baron in the party has pledged to do business with him if he decides to run for re-election. He was about to turn 80 at the end of this month and was already the oldest president in the country’s history when he was sworn in nearly two years ago. It doesn’t seem like a good idea to hold onto the experience when every relapse sparks a debate about his senility, but the president has repeatedly said he plans to do so, even though he hasn’t made a decision yet.
Everything indicates that this intention is solid. According to The Washington Post newspaper, the president and his wife have already met with their top advisers to prepare that possible candidacy for re-election in 2024. In September, the first lady said in an interview that she had not yet had time to discuss it with her husband, but the paper says the consultations began that same month. “Family always comes first with him,” his advisor Anita Dunn told ‘Axios’ reporter Mike Allen. The decision is not expected to be made public until early next year.
Senior Democratic Party officials have admitted to making plans for Biden’s re-election campaign even if he decides not to run, something that has happened to Lyndon Johnson only once in history. “We would be seriously incompetent if we didn’t prepare for it,” a source told Reuters. According to “The Washington Post,” a team of 40 people from the Democratic Party’s National Committee has spent more than a year preparing the operational databases, investing in the pivotal states that will be critical to the next presidential election, liaising with donors and investigating possible Republican rivals. Already among them are former President Donald Trump, his Vice President Mike Pence and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is expected to confirm the position in the polls next Tuesday.
On the Democratic side, the natural successor to stand for election, if Biden decides not to, would be Vice President Kamala Harris, who would also represent the generational change many are calling for. Still, Harris has not had a chance to shine in the position, held by a woman for the first time in history, and has been disappointed in her few interventions. That has prompted longtime party heavyweights like Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, and even some newcomers like California Governor Gavin Newsom to harbor the idea of entering the presidential arena. However, there is another former presidential candidate in the Biden administration who could also claim his chance: Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend and the first openly gay politician to win a portfolio in the US.
None of them will jump in the ring if Biden decides to rush the chance of the two consecutive terms the Constitution allows him, which doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. On the same pages of “The Washington Post,” an opinion article appeared on Wednesday in which Biden and Harris openly asked to stay out of the 2024 election “for the good of the country.”
The vice president, columnist George Will, author of the book Happy and Discontented Americans and a Pulitzer Prize winner for his opinion pieces, finds her too incompetent. “He lacks natural talent. You have to prepare, but of course you don’t. He’s complacent and arrogant, a ruinous mix. It sounds like someone is reporting on a book they haven’t read.”
No one within the party questions how capable Biden can be, despite the fact that some of his decisions related to what was believed to be his strength, foreign policy, were catastrophic. Thus, the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, which brought the Taliban back to power, remains history. For all his hits and misses, the president can only hope that he questions his mental abilities.
Biden was known for his fumbles and gaffes long before he was Obama’s vice president, but of late, amnesia has caused the opposition to portray him as a senile and confused man incapable of leading the Western world. and the nuclear briefcase. In less than two months, they highlight the moment last September he searched the public out loud for Indiana Congresswoman Jackie Walorski, who had died in a car accident a month earlier. The talk in the “NowThisNews” interview, in which he boasted that he had approved the student debt forgiveness “by one or two votes” when in fact it was by executive order without Congressional intervention.
Or the moment last Tuesday when he blamed the war in Iraq for rising inflation, which he quickly tried to correct with ‘excuse me, the war in Ukraine’. That would have been fine if he hadn’t added, “I’m thinking about Iraq, because that’s where my son died.” Beau Biden died in 2015 in a Maryland military hospital from a brain tumor that the president attributes to chemical exposure suffered by troops deployed in Iraq.
In the future, Biden can expect to be presented as a senile grandfather in opposition campaigns and Fox talk shows, but in his own party he will always cast the shadow of Ronald Reagan, who five years after his departure from the White House was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The medical consensus is that this disease begins to show symptoms ten years before diagnosis, which is consistent with the observations of his advisors and even his son Ron. Adding to this the low popularity of the president and the foreseeable beating that his party will suffer in the polls next Tuesday, it must be assumed that a new Biden candidacy will see those who in 2020 only saw in him a quality to vote for him. : That wasn’t Trump. However, the option ‘rematch’ is also not excluded.
Source: La Verdad
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