The Problem Isn’t Joe Biden’s Age

The president is diminished, but not because of mere longevity.

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President Joe Biden speaks to the media at Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport in Avoca, Pa., August 17, 2023.

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President Biden has declared himself a candidate for reelection in 2024 and, by his modest standards, has begun campaigning. Surveys and person-on-the-street interviews suggest that Americans do not want him to run again. Indeed, 68 percent of registered voters believe he is “too old” to run for president, according to an ABC News/Washington Post survey.

Most observers, and my own eyes and ears, tell us there is something wrong with our president, as he blathers that we can “lick the world,” to cite one recent gaffe in Ireland. But is that a by-product of turning 80, as Mr. Biden did in November?

HS

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Herbert W. Stupp

Herbert W. Stupp served in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. He was an NYC Commissioner appointed by Mayor Rudy Giuliani, serving 1994–2002. In 1970, as an undergraduate student, he was State Chairman of “Youth for Buckley.”

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