Joe Biden’s Age: Congressional Democrats Share Voters’ Concerns

Less than a year out from Election Day, Democrats in Washington are still coming to terms with the 2024 cards they have been dealt: an extremely unpopular, octogenarian incumbent who is now losing many head-to-head swing-state polling matchups against indicted former president Donald Trump.

Intra-party concerns about the president’s advanced age are not new. But grumblings have grown a bit louder in recent days as congressional Democrats who don’t regularly interact with the 81-year-old president have observed him up close during White House holiday celebrations.

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Audrey Fahlberg

Audrey Fahlberg was a politics reporter for National Review.

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Less than a year out from Election Day, Democrats in Washington are still coming to terms with the 2024 cards they have been dealt: an extremely unpopular, octogenarian incumbent who is now losing many head-to-head swing-state polling matchups against indicted former president Donald Trump.

Intra-party concerns about the president’s advanced age are not new. But grumblings have grown a bit louder in recent days as congressional Democrats who don’t regularly interact with the 81-year-old president have observed him up close during White House holiday celebrations.