Biden turns 81 as voters show concern about age
The HinduJoe Biden will turn 81 on Monday with the traditional pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkeys at the White House, but don’t expect him to mention the issue that has U.S. voters in a flap. On a visit to meet union workers in Illinois he joked that “I know I only look like I’m 30, but I’ve been around for a long time” -- and when a reporter tripped in the media area, Mr. Biden said, “I just want the press to know that wasn’t me.” On other occasions, Mr. Biden has used it to portray himself as a safe pair of political hands, saying that age brings with it a little wisdom. Seventy-four percent of people said Mr. Biden would be too old to serve a second term, compared to 50% for Mr. Trump, a recent ABC/Washington Post poll showed. A Yahoo/YouGov poll found that 54% of Americans say Mr. Biden no longer has “the competence to carry out the job of president,” up from 41% before the 2020 election. “There are very large segments of the population that survive to their eighth decade perfectly capable of being president, or doing whatever they like.” ‘Super-Agers’ Biden - and Trump for that matter - are both likely to be “Super-Agers,” a term coined by researchers to describe a small group of people who keep their full faculties until late in life, said Mr. Olshansky.