NEW YORK (Dagbladet): American voters have long responded in opinion polls that they are concerned about the age of President Joe Biden (81). Recently, however, Trump (77) has also delivered several incoherent speeches where he has appeared confused and mixed up names.
– I have said this before. He’s not as sharp as he was in 2016. And not even as sharp as he was in 2020,” Trump’s former White House communications director, Alyssa Farah Griffin, told CNN, according to The Hill.
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The statement came after two more chaotic speeches by Trump at campaign events in North Carolina and Virginia over the weekend.
Tuesday is so-called Super Tuesday in the USA, where 16 states and one US territory will vote in primaries. Trump is the clear favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination.
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At one point, the audience fell silent as Trump, from the podium in Virginia, apparently mixed up Biden and former President Barack Obama. The statement came as Trump spoke about the war in Ukraine. He himself claimed that he wanted to end the war.
– Putin has so little respect for Obama that he has started throwing around the nuclear word, Trump said in the speech, according to The Independent.
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Later in North Carolina, it was again a ball for the ex-president. Despite reading the speech from a teleprompter, he paused several times, seemed to have trouble moving forward and slurred his words.
At the same time, Trump very often makes fun of Biden for being too old and frail to be president.
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– Confused
Biden’s campaign organization quickly took the opportunity to attack after Trump’s speeches. They posted clips from the speeches with comments:
– A confused Trump refers to himself in the third person while reading from a teleprompter, they write X.
They also point out that Trump claimed he got legislation passed for former soldiers. This legislation was passed when Obama was president in 2014.
According to Forbes Trump has mixed up Biden and Obama at least seven times in recent months.
Trump himself has tried to defend himself by saying that he mixes the names “intentionally” to be sarcastic.
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– For one reason or another, it is not necessarily clear to voters that Donald Trump is not the strongest fighter the Republicans could have right now, says Griffin to CNN.
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The former presenter is now the presenter of the talk show “The View” on ABC and has become one of many former Trump associates, who are now highly critical of him. She believes that Trump has never been particularly eloquent, but that he now “consistently” mixes up the names of high-profile leaders.
– It is remarkable how little the voters also see his age as an issue. He is only three and a half years younger than President Joe Biden. But there is something about the way they appear that is just perceived very differently, says Griffin.
She also highlights Trump’s statements during an election rally in February where he apparently mixed up his own Republican opponent, Nikki Haley, with former Democratic speaker Nancy Pelosi.
– It has gotten worse. It hasn’t gotten any better. He is nowhere near as sharp as he was, says Griffin.
Biden has also messed with names and statements. In February, special investigator Robert K. Hur submitted a report on Biden’s handling of confidential documents as a private individual. Among other things, Hur writes about Biden that he is a “sympathetic, well-intentioned, elderly man with a bad memory”.
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Doubts about Biden
A recent survey from New York Times/Siena College also showed that 73 percent of registered voters believe Biden is largely or somewhat too old to be an effective president. This included 56 percent of Democratic voters. Only 43 percent of registered voters said the same about Trump.
Biden himself has recently tried to joke about his own age by claiming that what really matters is “how old your ideas are”.
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– You have to take a look at the other guy. “He’s about my age, but he can’t even remember his own wife’s name,” Biden said when he appeared on the “Late Night With Seth Meyers” talk show last week, referring to how Trump apparently mixed up his own wife a few days earlier. , Melania Trump, with Mercedes Schlapp, who is the wife of the head of the American Conservative Union, Matt Schlapp, writes The Hill.
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