https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/joe-biden-age-young/2023/11/19/id/1142871/
President Joe Biden is already the oldest president ever elected or ever to hold the office, but he turns 81 on Monday and Democrats backing him want to stress former President Donald Trump’s age is equally advanced.
“I think everyone knows it’s an issue, and we have to address it,” former Biden administration White House chief of staff Ron Klain told Politico, wanting to “emphasize it gives him more wisdom and experience, how he’s navigated this difficult problem in Ukraine.”
“He’ll keep on doing the job, campaigning with vigor and demonstrating to the American people his energy level, which is quite robust.”
A Democrat donor and Biden bundler, Alan Kessler told Politico age should not be important in the 2024 presidential rematch between Biden and Trump because of the age of both leading candidates.
“Neither are going to get any younger on their next birthdays, but yet Biden seems to get, on a continuing basis, knocked for his age while Trump does not,” Kessler lamented to Politico. “No one brings up the age thing with [Trump]. That double standard is troubling.”
But it remains a disparate issue for Biden among young voters than Trump voters, according to the latest NBC News poll released Sunday.
Among young voters (18-34 years old) — just 20% of whom view Biden favorably on Israel’s war on Hamas — Biden (42%) trails Trump (46%) by 4 points, which is outside the poll’s margin of error.
“This could be a massive sea change,” according to NBC News poll analyst Steve Kornacki, who noted Biden was plus-26 points on younger voters in 2020.
Unable to change the reality of an 81-year-old incumbent who will be 82 if he were to win next November, Democrats want to focus on the narrative of “wisdom.