Hillary Clinton says it’s time for Americans to accept that President Biden is older, but they should still vote for him.
“Someone said to me the other day, ‘Well, but Joe Biden is old,'” the former secretary of state recalled in an interview on Super Tuesday’s “Morning with Zerlina.”
“I said, ‘You know, Joe Biden is old.’ Let’s accept reality and move on. Joe Biden is old,” Clinton told the 81-year-old commander-in-chief. talked about.
Still, Clinton urged voters to continue supporting Biden, raising concerns about the oldest president in history, who will be 86 at the end of his second term, if former President Donald Trump, 77, reverts to white. He said it was nothing compared to his anxiety. House.
“So you’re running against one candidate who is older but does an effective job and doesn’t threaten our democracy,” she said of her fellow Democrats.
“And here we have another candidate who is elderly, barely understandable when he speaks, dangerous, and a threat to our democracy,” said President Trump, who is only a year older than her. she said about.
“Pick your two old ones and think about how you’re going to save our democracy,” she told host Zerlina Maxwell on her SiriusXM show.
“Because no matter where you stand on the political spectrum, you want to maintain freedom, the rule of law, and the protection of people’s fundamental rights. At least that’s what I used to think. .”
Democrats specifically avoided the issue of the president’s mental fitness to serve. A month after special counsel Robert Hur released a damning report into Biden’s handling of classified documents, the report described the commander-in-chief as a “sympathetic and well-meaning older man.” It was praised. Because my memory is poor. ”
