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Democrat Sen. Cory Booker claims Joe Biden is mentally fit for office despite growing concerns about his shocking mental lapses in public.
At 80, Biden is the oldest president in U.S. history. If he wins re-election, Biden will be 82 at the start of a second term and 86 by the end of it.
Interviewer Stephen A. Smith began, “I’ve said this publicly. I think that the Democratic Party… should be ashamed of itself because you pride yourself on being progressives, but you’re relying on an 82-year-old at the time of election to win re-election,” Smith said.
“How in God’s name are we in that kind of predicament in the year 2023, where you’re relying on an 82-year-old man to come to the rescue to defeat a former president that’s got like 91 counts of federal charges against them,” Smith continued.
“For crying out loud. How the hell did that happen?” Smith asked.
Booker answered, “There is a spread, and everybody’s obsessed with a number and that doesn’t tell the whole story.”
“This is what I know about Joe Biden, because you I’m a human being, when I’m hanging out with him I’m looking close. That’s right, does he have it? Is he listening to me? Can he hear me? Is he gonna doze off on me?” Booker said.
“I’ve sat up in the Oval Office, and he’s known more about facts than people on his staff does. He physically — look, I’ll play one-on-one with him. He wants to challenge me to a push-up contest, I’ll take you on Joe Biden — but his intellectual rigor is 100 percent there,” Booker said.
“All I’m saying is this I know a couple things. I have no disrespect to the legacy of Ronald Reagan, but the stories I’ve heard about the state of his mental conditioning and his second term, I think it’s right to question that,” Booker said.
“But what I do see is a proven record. The biggest infrastructure act in this country’s history,” he said.
“I have seen no intellectual diminution,” Booker said, adding that he is still considering running for president in the future because the “biggest threat to America is us tearing each other apart, not any external threat.”
“I know there’s a lot of other people — a lot of other Democrats — that are already young horses that have stepped back and said that, let the old lion finish what he started, because he hasn’t shown any diminution,” Booker added.
