At 80, Mr. Biden is already the oldest serving commander in chief
April 25, 2019 Joe Biden launched a campaign for the post president at the unprecedented age of 76, when many Democrats lamented that he was too old.
They feared for his health and mental acuity, he was fired as yesterday's man, and even Barack Obama, whom he served as Vice President, was in no hurry to support him.
After exactly four years and countless gaffes and falls when the vast majority of Americans oppose the re-election of Mr. Biden, the octogenarian incumbent is ready to start his 2024 campaign as early as Tuesday .
It will happen. made in a pre-recorded video rather than a speech as advisers sought to limit the chance of him spoiling the event with a verbal slip of the tongue.
Clearly indicating that Mr. Biden would «run to the left,» he was going appoint Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the granddaughter of the late labor leader Cesar Chavez, as his campaign manager.
Even in the early months of Biden's first term, a friend who had known him for decades told The Telegraph that his «clutch had slipped.»< /p>
Since then, his gaffes that Biden has always been guilty of have accelerated.
In March 2021, two months into his presidency, he stumbled three times while trying to climb the stairs to board number one.
Biden Heat 4 — Fall
Six months later, he appears to have fallen asleep during a meeting of the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow.
Biden Heat 5 — alseep
Then, apparently forgetting what year it was, Biden began January 2022 by reassuring the American people that there is «a lot of reason to hope» in 2020.
In April 2022, after a performance in North Carolina, he began shaking hands with rarefied air, and two months after that, he fell off his bike in Delaware.
Biden Heat 3 — Handshake Biden Heat 2 — Bicycle
Then Mr. Biden made one of his most poignant gaffes, and one that particularly angered senior political figures, in September 2022.
A year earlier, Republican Congresswoman Jackie Valorski had died in a highly publicized car accident.
< p>At the time, Mr. Biden issued a statement and the White House flags were flown at half mast
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But Mr. Biden, apparently, forgot that she died, and at an event in the White House he began to call the audience: “Jackie, are you here? Where is Jackie? I think she should have been here…”
The next month, Mr. Biden seemed , got lost while walking in the garden of the White House, not knowing how to return to his residence.
Along the way, there were also repeated cases where Mr. Biden forgot names. world leaders and cabinet ministers.
He called Scott Morrison, the former prime minister of Australia, «that guy at the bottom,» and Lloyd Austin, his secretary of defense, «the guy who runs this [Pentagon] there.”
In February, Biden underwent his annual physical examination at the Walter Reed National Medical Center in Maryland.
Kevin O'Connor, the president's physician, concluded that he was a «healthy, vigorous 80-year-old man» and «fit to serve» as commander in chief.
The evaluation did not examine his cognitive abilities. .
Biden Hit 1 — Lost
U.S. late-night talk show hosts who at first seemed condescending to Mr. Biden have now joined in the discussion of his age.
In a recent impersonation President Stephen Colbert said, “The thing is, I'm mentally ready to run again for President of the United States… What's going on? Where is Jill? Marco! Buddy!»
Some of Biden's missteps had potentially serious consequences.
In January 2022, during a rare press conference, he indicated that Russia might not be punished for a «minor invasion» of Ukraine, prompting furious attempts by White House officials «clear» this remark.
A similar event occurred shortly after he appeared to suggest regime change in Russia.
At the time, explaining the sense of confusion in the White House, one of the former officials who worked with Biden told The Telegraph that there had been a «confusion.»
The former official said: Cent sure he meant that what he said, or if he said something that was simply wrong. Mr. Biden's advisers have been pushing him to hold fewer and fewer press conferences, a trend that can be expected to continue into the campaign.
Ms. Rodriguez, the expected campaign manager, previously headed the White House for Hispanic voter outreach and is a close ally of Vice President Kamala Harris.
It also suggests that Ms. Harris, who will succeed Biden, having health problems for a second term, he will play a larger role in the campaign.
Mr. Biden is expected to meet with major Democratic donors in Washington later this week, when he begins efforts to raise more than $1 billion for the re-election campaign.
His campaign team will seek to communicate to Democratic voters how the Biden administration is implementing sweeping new laws on infrastructure, technology and climate.
Scott Mulhouser, a former Biden spokesman, said the president hit a «home run» with his State of the Union address in February and «masterfully» traveled to Ukraine that same month.
But a recent Associated Press report -NORC poll showed that only 26% of Americans want Biden to run again, including just 47% of Democrats.
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