2024 US Presidential Election: ‘He is as old as I am’, Joe Biden turns table on Trump over age criticism
President Biden, while campaigning in New York on Monday, had stopped by 30 Rockefeller to appear on National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) "Late Night with Seth Meyers". The President's sit-down with the comic included questions about his age and his 2024 agenda versus that of Trump, the Republican front-runner for the nomination, reported ABC News. Meyers questioned the US President over the leaked classified documents which state Biden is 81 years old currently.
“Some documents recently leaked, some classified documents--and this isn't a gotcha show but I do want to ask about it--that says you are currently 81 years old." Jokingly, Biden said, "Who the hell told you that? That's classified." Meyers then highlighted the fact that polls have showed that the US voters are concerned about Biden's age as he gears up for second term run and asked how Biden plans to address that on the campaign trail. "Number 1, you got to take a look at the other guy, he's about as old as I am," Biden said, hinting at Trump, who is 77. "Number 2, it's about how old your ideas are." Slamming the 77-year-old's ideology, Biden said he is the person who wants to take America and American back 50-60 years.
"This is a guy who wants to take us back. He wants to take us back on Roe v. Wade.
He wants to take us back on a whole range of issues that, for 50, 60 years, have been solid American positions." The US President said that he thinks about the future, and not the past. “I think it's about the future. And everything, every single thing we've done, and I think we've got some good things done...they told us we couldn't get them done because things were so divided." The interview was in line with Biden's attempts to seek to tamp down voter worries
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