Following Harris’s replacement of Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, many Democrats and allied members of the media have drawn Trump’s mental acuity into question, insisting he’s too old to lead and is slipping mentally, as Harris is almost two decades his junior, giving them a line of attack that would have been ineffective against Biden who is three years older than Trump.
Despite repeated and consistent messaging, it doesn’t seem to be swaying voters, as polling numbers on the matter have barely moved since Harris moved to the top of the ticket.
The Daily Caller reports:
Particularly after the Trump campaign dropped out of several interviews and a Trump adviser attributed some of the cancellations on Trump being “exhausted” after a busy campaign stretch, Democrats and corporate media outlets repeatedly suggested or plainly stated that Trump is too old to handle the rigors of the campaign trail and the presidency. However, the latest New York Times-Siena poll indicates that the share of voters who believe Trump is too old for the job has remained about the same since July, the same month that President Joe Biden quit the race after struggling to speak coherently in his June debate against Trump.
This messaging may have been more effective if Democrats hadn’t spent years covering up Biden’s clear cognitive decline.
Even before the 2020 election, Biden was exhibiting signs of mental deterioration that accelerated after he was sworn in.
It was revealed that Biden’s condition had unraveled so much that staffers printed directions with pictures for him, guiding him on getting on and off stage.
The Daily Caller continues:
Notably, political journalist Mark Halperin — widely regarded as one of the most deeply-sourced journalists in America — recently told Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson that White House reporters for major corporate news organizations mentioned to him that they were aware of Biden’s cognitive decline, but their companies would not cover the issue aggressively despite its obvious significance.
Months into a presidential campaign started because of Joe Biden’s waning mental capacity, Kamala Harris still hasn’t come up with a satisfactory answer to the questions about it or what she knew about it.
The Daily Caller explains:
Vice President Kamala Harris — who has dodged questions about what, if anything, she knew about Biden’s cognitive decline while working as his number two — said that Trump is too tired to campaign effectively to a gaggle of reporters in Philadelphia. Notably, Harris has held 61 events since Sept. 1, while Trump has held 76 in the same period of time, according to the NYT.
While voters do not seem to be moved by the Democrats’ messaging push about Trump’s age, the electorate had concerns about Biden’s acuity even before the disastrous debate that led to the end of his reelection campaign. A September 2023 poll from The Economist and YouGov found that 57% of respondents believed Biden’s age would “severely limit” his ability to run the country if reelected, and other polling by the same entities in the run-up to the fateful debate reflected similar figures, according to ABC News.
Many Trump supporters admit that he isn’t operating at the same level he was in 2016 or 2020, but say that even in his advanced age, he’s the preferred alternative to Kamala Harris.
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