An alarming new report suggests that President Biden, 80, has difficulty functioning outside of six hours of daylight.
The 81-year-old commander in chief is prone to gaffes and fatigue outside the 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. hours and when he’s traveling overseas, White House aides say. He told Axios It’s a bizarre attempt to reverse his disastrous debate defeat.
During the debate, which began five hours after the peak of the president’s performance at 9 p.m., and was a 90-minute disaster, Biden often appeared dazed or gaping, froze mid-thought, slipped up and struggled to form coherent sentences.
The shocking late-night performance raised concerns about whether Biden, who will be 86 at the end of his second term, can serve another four years in office.
Biden tried to allay voters’ concerns about his intellectual ability by delivering a much more energetic speech at a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Friday in his preferred time slot of early afternoon.
“I can’t walk as easily as I used to, I can’t talk as fluently as I used to, I can’t debate as well as I used to,” he told a cheering crowd in the battleground state just after 1 p.m.
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“But I know what I know. I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. And I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done.”
Despite Biden’s rising poll numbers in daytime polls on Friday, he has faced a flurry of calls from donors and critics for him to drop out of the race.
But Biden has refused to step down and party leaders have signaled their continued support for him, as have former Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
