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Another bad week for the president.
THE BIDEN ISSUE THAT WON’T GO AWAY. Just last week, an edition of this newsletter was headlined, “Biden’s losing battle with the age issue.” Now, there’s more to discuss.
On Monday evening, the president attended a Juneteenth concert on the White House lawn. It wasn’t a complicated event, as presidential appearances go. All President Joe Biden had to do was walk out of the White House, join the crowd listening to the music, and make some brief remarks.
It didn’t go well. As the music played, Biden took his place on a front row that included Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, actor Billy Porter (wearing a “rainbow sequined caftan … accessorized with bedazzled ankle boots,” according to Women’s Wear Daily), and, next to Biden, Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd.
Everyone was standing and swaying and clapping to singer Kirk Franklin’s performance. Everyone, that is, except Biden. As the scene unfolded around him, the president stood still and absolutely motionless, his hands hanging by his side. His face had a frozen expression, and his eyes seemed fixed, staring straight ahead. This went on for about a minute.
Look at your watch or phone and set it for a minute. It’s a long time. Biden was briefly engaged by Floyd, then resumed staring. Finally, he seemed to come out of it, ending the episode.
Biden had another bad moment in his remarks when he entirely garbled a sentence paying tribute to Opal Lee, the activist he referred to as the “grandmother of Juneteenth.” Beyond that, Biden’s remarks were intelligible but at the same time provided more evidence that his speaking ability has declined noticeably, not just from 20 years ago but also in the last three years, since he has been president.
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What is the electoral effect of all this? It seems pretty clear that Biden’s defenders are facing an uphill battle. There is just no doubt that the president, at 81, has slowed significantly, that he is increasingly enfeebled, and that his condition will not improve if he is elected to serve in the White House until he is 86 years old. Biden won’t get better. Life doesn’t work that way. Trump, on the other hand, while old — he turns 78 on Friday — is far, far more vigorous. (In Las Vegas, he spoke for more than an hour in temperatures above 100 degrees.) Voters have had many chances to watch each man in action and will have more as the campaign progresses. In November, they will draw their own conclusions.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3044616/the-biden-issue-that-wont-go-away/
THE BIDEN ISSUE THAT WON’T GO AWAY. Just last week, an edition of this newsletter was headlined, “Biden’s losing battle with the age issue.” Now, there’s more to discuss.
On Monday evening, the president attended a Juneteenth concert on the White House lawn. It wasn’t a complicated event, as presidential appearances go. All President Joe Biden had to do was walk out of the White House, join the crowd listening to the music, and make some brief remarks.
It didn’t go well. As the music played, Biden took his place on a front row that included Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, actor Billy Porter (wearing a “rainbow sequined caftan … accessorized with bedazzled ankle boots,” according to Women’s Wear Daily), and, next to Biden, Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd.
Everyone was standing and swaying and clapping to singer Kirk Franklin’s performance. Everyone, that is, except Biden. As the scene unfolded around him, the president stood still and absolutely motionless, his hands hanging by his side. His face had a frozen expression, and his eyes seemed fixed, staring straight ahead. This went on for about a minute.
Look at your watch or phone and set it for a minute. It’s a long time. Biden was briefly engaged by Floyd, then resumed staring. Finally, he seemed to come out of it, ending the episode.
Biden had another bad moment in his remarks when he entirely garbled a sentence paying tribute to Opal Lee, the activist he referred to as the “grandmother of Juneteenth.” Beyond that, Biden’s remarks were intelligible but at the same time provided more evidence that his speaking ability has declined noticeably, not just from 20 years ago but also in the last three years, since he has been president.
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What is the electoral effect of all this? It seems pretty clear that Biden’s defenders are facing an uphill battle. There is just no doubt that the president, at 81, has slowed significantly, that he is increasingly enfeebled, and that his condition will not improve if he is elected to serve in the White House until he is 86 years old. Biden won’t get better. Life doesn’t work that way. Trump, on the other hand, while old — he turns 78 on Friday — is far, far more vigorous. (In Las Vegas, he spoke for more than an hour in temperatures above 100 degrees.) Voters have had many chances to watch each man in action and will have more as the campaign progresses. In November, they will draw their own conclusions.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3044616/the-biden-issue-that-wont-go-away/
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