Welp, Nikki Haley said the quiet part out loud about Old Joe Biden’s chances of surviving through a second term in office:
That’s something, huh? When have we ever had that particular discussion in a presidential contest?
Here’s an excerpt from the CNBC story:
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Wednesday that President Joe Biden, 80, will likely die within five years and that his supporters would have to count on Vice President Kamala Harris if he were to win re-election next year.
“He announced that he’s running again in 2024, and I think that we can all be very clear and say with a matter of fact that if you vote for Joe Biden you really are counting on a President Harris, because the idea that he would make it until 86 years old is not something that I think is likely,” Haley, 51, said in an interview on Fox News.
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Haley has framed her presidential bid around a “new generation” of leadership. In a speech launching her campaign, she suggested that politicians over 75 be required to take a mental competency test — a proposal that first lady Jill Biden slammed as “ridiculous.”
Her latest remarks come as Biden, the oldest president in U.S. history, works to combat concerns about his age heading into 2024. Republicans are weighing how far to push the issue in the campaign without alienating older Americans who tend to be dependable voters.
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Readers here will know that I fully agree with Haley’s assessment of Biden’s age, survival prospects (based solely on actual male life expectancies in the U.S.) and the argument that candidates of advancing age be required to, at a minimum, take a competency test. I have gone further, arguing in favor of a mandatory 75 year-old retirement age for elected officeholders.
For many Republicans, the uncomfortable aspect of Haley’s competency test proposal is that it would also apply to this guy named Donald Trump, who is 76 today and would be 78 years old upon assuming office in January 2025.
Because Biden is so elderly and so obviously suffering from steadily advancing cognitive issues, Trump’s own advanced age has received little attention thus far, mainly because he appears to be so robust in comparison to the Sock Puppet. But everyone should rest assured that Haley’s willingness to be so uncomfortably outspoken on the issue is just a precursor to her raising the issue in relation to Trump in the months to come as the campaign heats up.