David Axelrod: Biden's age 'main' drawback for future political viability

Former Obama adviser David Axelrod raised a "main" crimson flag relating to President Joe Biden's ambitions to run for reelection in 2024, pointing to the commander in chief's superior age.

His feedback appeared in a New York Instances report Saturday that examined "whispers" amongst Democrats who're more and more anxious about Biden's management forward of the 2022 midterm elections wherein Republicans are broadly anticipated to win again management of at the very least one chamber of Congress.

Biden, who's 79, is the oldest man ever to be president. The truth is, Biden was older when he took the oath of workplace than was Ronald Reagan, the second-oldest sitting president ever, when he retired at 77. Biden could be 82 for a second inauguration.

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“The presidency is a monstrously taxing job, and the stark actuality is the president could be nearer to 90 than 80 on the finish of a second time period, and that may be a serious situation,” Axelrod stated.

Biden stated in December that he would run for reelection if he's in good well being.

"I am an amazing respecter of destiny. Destiny has intervened in my life many, many instances. If I am within the well being I am in now, if I am in good well being, then, actually, I might run once more," the president stated on the time.

Ought to Biden decline to hunt a second time period, youthful politicians could line as much as search the Democratic Occasion's nomination. Amongst them may very well be former rivals in 2020 who turned members of Biden's administration, together with Vice President Kamala Harris, who's 57, and 40-year-old Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Among the many older set, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), two high-profile, left-wing politicians who're 80 and 72, respectively, have additionally stoked presidential hypothesis as Biden's ballot numbers have taken a nostril dive.

Former President Donald Trump, who has flirted with the notion of a 2024 marketing campaign, is 75 with a birthday arising subsequent week.

Biden's critics usually increase questions on his bodily vitality and psychological acuity, spurred by frequent gaffes that aides usually then swoop in to wash up. Axelrod, who was a prime strategist for Barack Obama's two successful presidential campaigns, argued that the age issue had been a distraction from Biden's accomplishments.

“Biden doesn’t get the credit score he deserves for steering the nation via the worst of the pandemic, passing historic laws, pulling the NATO alliance collectively in opposition to Russian aggression and restoring decency and decorum to the White Home,” Axelrod stated. “And a part of the rationale he doesn’t is performative. He appears his age and isn’t as agile in entrance of a digital camera as he as soon as was, and this has fed a story about competence that isn’t rooted in actuality.”