America agrees: Biden is too old
WASHINGTON: Almost nine in 10 Americans believe Joe Biden is too old to serve a second term, according to a poll that has capped a damaging few days for the President.
Concerns over the 81-yearold’s age and memory exploded after the special counsel investigating his handling of classified documents released a damning long-awaited report.
Robert Hur said no criminal charges were warranted but concluded that the former vice-president would be seen by a jury as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”.
Mr Biden and the White House scrambled to control the devastating political fallout from the report.
An ABC News/Ipsos poll has suggested 86 per cent of Americans believe Mr Biden is too old to serve four more years. Even among Democrats, 73 per cent believe he’s too old. And among independents, the number soars to 91 per cent.
But the poll also suggested that 62 per cent of Americans believe Mr Trump, 77, is also too old to serve again.
A furious Mr Biden addressed the media after Mr Hur’s report was published, striking a defiant tone with flashes of anger over the claim he could not remember when his son Beau died.
“I don’t need anyone to remind me when he passed away,” Biden said. His son died from brain cancer in 2015.
His wife Jill Biden also criticised Mr Hur. “I hope you can imagine how it felt to read that attack – not just as Joe’s wife, but as Beau’s mother,” she wrote in an email to supporters over the weekend.
“I don’t know what this Special Counsel was trying to achieve. We should give everyone grace, and I can’t imagine someone would try to use our son’s death to score political points.
“If you’ve experienced a loss like that, you know that you don’t measure it in years, you measure it in grief. May 30th is a day forever etched on our hearts,” Ms Biden said.