Assistant Home Democrat chief Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), who additionally serves as President Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection marketing campaign co-chair, stated the president’s age is a “reliable concern.”
Clyburn reportedly speaks with the president frequently and has been credited for serving to Biden win their celebration’s main throughout the 2020 presidential election. His endorsement of Biden within the main finally helped him over the end line after struggling a number of early-state losses.
Nonetheless, he has proven concern over Biden’s age going into the subsequent election cycle.
“Joe Biden I’m certain has misplaced a step,” the 82-year-old South Carolina Democrat stated concerning the 80-year-old president, in accordance with a Self-importance Truthful article revealed on Monday.
“It’s a reliable concern. I don’t hit my 5-iron so far as I used to—however I can nonetheless play 36 holes of golf a day. You learn to make sure changes,” Clyburn added. “I feel Joe Biden is aware of easy methods to function inside himself. And I might a lot moderately have an 82-year-old Joe Biden as president than a 42-year-old Donald Trump.”
The feedback from the staunch Biden supporter come after a CBS Information/YouGov ballot on the finish of April discovered 45 p.c of Democrats didn’t need Biden to run once more, 86 p.c of whom cited his age as the explanation.
The 80-year-old president can be 82 on the finish of his first time period as president and 86 on the finish of a second time period if he’s reelected.
In 1972, when as a 29-year-old native Delaware councilman he ran towards incumbent Sen. Cale Boggs (R-DE), a former two-term governor, Biden used his opponent’s age to criticize him on a number of events.
The then-councilman used the senator’s age sufficient instances {that a} reporter finally labeled the tactic “Expensive previous Dad.”
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart Information. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or observe him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.
