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Even HILLARY thinks Biden’s age is an issue: Clinton admits voters should consider concerns about 80-year-old’s performance when asked about him falling down the stairs – and hopes he can ‘compete’ in 2024
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Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has warned Joe Biden that voters are right to be concerned about his age amid ongoing doubts over whether he is fit for office.
The ex-Secretary of State said that the 80-year-old’s advancing years ‘is an issue’ in the 2024 election at a conference organized by The Financial Times.
She had been asked at a Financial Times summit in Washington, D.C., about Biden stumbling at the G7 Summit in Japan.
Clinton made her remarks at a conference organized by the Financial Times over the weekend
‘His age is an issue, and people have every right to consider it,’ Clinton said. ‘It’s a concern for anyone.’
The 75-year-old added: ‘We’ve had presidents who had fallen before who were a lot younger, and people didn’t go into heart palpitations.’
Clinton, who lost to Donald Trump in 2016, claimed that Joe Biden ‘doesn’t get the credit yet’ for ‘jobs and growth.’
‘I obviously hope he stays very focused and able to compete in the election because I think he can be reelected, and that’s what we should all hope for,’ she told the audience.
Her comments are in stark contrast to fellow Democrats, who have dismissed concerns about the commander-in-chief’s age.
Biden is the oldest president in American history and would be 86 at the end of his second term if he wins in 2024.
White House aides have repeatedly downplayed concerns about Biden’s mental and physical fitness.
But late last month, the president was handed answer cards to help him navigate vetted questions from journalists at a highly stage-managed press conference.
Biden shrugged off a question about his advanced years at the event alongside South Korean President Yoon Sun Yeol.
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‘With regard to age, I can’t even say — I guess how old I am, I can’t even say the number, it doesn’t register with me,’ he said. He added he expected voters ‘to take a hard look at it, I would as well. I looked at it before I decided to run.’
The former Secretary of State was grilled about Biden’s age and health condition in a live interview
Biden briefly stumbled at a G7 photo op in Hiroshima, Japan as he posed with the country’s prime minister
Ex-South Carolina governor Nikki Haley has called for mental health fitness tests for anyone over the age of 75 in a move seen as a thinly-veiled swipe at Biden and Donald Trump.
But Trump himself offered his support, saying that you needed ‘great mental acuity and physical stamina’ to do the job of president.
Republicans have long criticized Biden for his many verbal gaffes, and have called on him to take a cognitive examination.
Biden got a clean bill of health in February after his annual physical, but his doctor didn’t say whether he examined the president’s mental acuity.
Next year, he will be on full public display as the campaign ramps up ahead of next year’s vote.
During the 2020 election, he campaigned mainly online and rarely left Delaware at the height of the Covid pandemic.
Trump was 70 years old when he entered the Oval Office in 2017 after beating Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
If he wins a second term, he will be 78 and the second oldest president in history behind Biden.
The American people will regularly see him out and about, interacting with voters and showing he’s fit to serve.
Trump was 70 years old when he entered the Oval Office in 2017 after beating Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
If he wins a second term, he will be 78 and the second oldest president in history behind Biden.
