Both friends and adversaries point out that the octogenarian president has slowed with age but is still sharp and commanding. Read more at straitstimes.com.
of Americans, including Democrats. During a recent New York Times focus group, several voters who supported Mr Biden in 2020 expressed worry, with one saying: “I’ve just seen the blank stare at times, when he’s either giving a speech or addressing a crowd. It seems like he loses his train of thought.”
Aides limit exposing Mr Biden to news media interviews when he could make a politically damaging mistake. He has given just one-fourth of the interviews Mr Donald Trump did in the same time period and one-fifth of Mr Obama’s interviews – and none at all to reporters from a major newspaper. At the same time, he is trim and fit, exercises five days a week and does not drink. He has at times exhibited striking stamina, such as when he flew to Poland then boarded a nine-hour train ride to make a secret visit to Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, spent hours on the ground, then endured another nine-hour train ride and a flight to Warsaw, Poland.
The question of Mr Biden’s age does not come in isolation, of course. Mr Trump, his likeliest Republican challenger, is just four years younger and was thehim. If Mr Trump were to win next year, he would be 82 at the end of his term, older than Mr Biden will be at the end of this one.
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