What is the biggest test for the 78-year-old Biden?
Is it the continuing dire Epidemic in the United States? Is it the economy that has plunged through history? Or the demolition from Republicans?
Neither. Age, is the biggest test for Biden.
As the oldest president in U.S. history, the outside world on Biden’s health status has not been interrupted.
On the 3rd of this month, Biden appeared in a video conference in the House of Representatives, during which he expressed his willingness to take questions, but as soon as the words left his mouth, the White House immediately interrupted the live feed.
For this “live incident”, many critics believe that the White House suddenly cut off the live feed, out of “protection” for Biden, to avoid allowing him to improvise answers to questions, because he often falls in this part of the chain.
This speculation is not empty wind, as early as during the 2020 election, Biden has repeatedly in the speech in the jam and serious gaffes. For example, Biden not only mispronounced the number of deaths from the new U.S. pneumonia, but also forgot the name of his opponent Trump and called him “George”.
After entering the White House, Biden’s old problem of “forgetfulness” has not improved.
A week or so ago, Biden held an event at the White House, and forgot the name of his recently appointed Secretary of Defense Austin, and had to awkwardly use “the guy who runs the agency” to refer to.
It was also discovered that Biden has been in office for nearly 2 months, but he has not held a full press conference. He has set a record for the longest Time in the past 100 years that a new president has not met with the media, which has led to more speculation about Biden’s health.
As questions about Biden’s health have increased, the attention of his deputy, President Harris, has also risen recently.
A recent poll by Rasmussen, a U.S. pollster, showed that a significant portion of Americans believe that while Biden is the boss of the White House, he is not the one making important day-to-day decisions in the White House, Russia Today TV (RT) reported on Sunday.
In this poll, only 47 percent believe that Biden is carrying out his presidential duties, while another 47 percent believe that it is other officials, such as Vice President Harris, who make decisions behind the scenes.
Rasmussen also questioned the role played by Harris. The agency noted that Harris had run as a candidate in the party’s primary during the 2020 election, but was so widely attacked that she announced her withdrawal from the election before official voting had even begun in the states.
Long before running in the 2020 election, Biden had said he wanted to pick a female running mate to be the vice presidential candidate.
With the Floyd incident setting off an unprecedented wave of anti-racism in the United States, Biden preferred to pick a non-white woman because it would help him capture the favor of more minority voters.
This is a good way to get the most out of the campaign, but there is not much left for Biden to choose from.
In addition, Biden had to consider a cruel but realistic problem: he is 78 years old, when he leaves office will be 82 years old, if he died suddenly during his term of office or for some reason can not continue to perform, his deputy must have the ability to take power immediately.
Biden chose Harris because she met all of the above criteria – non-monolithic minority status (mixed African and Indian descent), senior prosecutor origin, age of 55 ……
From the moment Biden announced his selection of Harris as his campaign deputy, Harris was destined to become the core of the future leadership of the Democratic Party and the most promising person to become the first female U.S. president after Hillary.
According to CNN, Harris is focusing on strengthening her work in the area of foreign policy, as well as U.S. national security, which are two key areas for potential presidential candidates.
Harris not only spoke on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instead of Biden, but also with French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and WHO Director General Denis Tan.
If put in the previous U.S. administration, it would have been unthinkable for Pence to go on the phone with these international dignitaries instead of Trump. But nowadays, such a drama is played out in the Biden Administration.
When Americans started to question Biden’s role, it was already a problem – there was no doubt that it was Biden who was calling the shots in the U.S. But now, that question has a different answer.
Biden has been living in Obama’s shadow since he was vice president of the United States. Now under the era that belongs to him, but again to be taken away from the light by his deputy Harris.
It must be said that Biden was criticized for not having a “sense of presence” is not without reason.
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