Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said this week that he is keeping an eye on President Biden amid growing concerns over the 80-year-old.
Sen. Cory Booker said this week that he is keeping an eye on President Biden amid growing concerns over the 80-year-old’s age and mental fitness, asserting he does not see “any deterioration” mentally, making the remarks during a conversation on the“I’ve said this publicly.
“I’ve sat up in the Oval Office, and he’s known more about facts than people on his staff does. He physically — look, I’ll play one-on-one with him. He wants to challenge me to a push-up contest, I’ll take you on Joe Biden — but his intellectual rigor is 100 percent there,” Booker said.“All I’m saying is this I know a couple things.
“I have seen no intellectual diminution,” Booker said, adding that he is still considering running for president in the future because the “biggest threat to America is us tearing each other apart, not any external threat.”
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