Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mentioned it's honest for voters to ask questions on President Biden’s age within the 2024 election.

If he wins re-election, Mr. Biden might be 82 years previous when he takes the oath of workplace.

Mrs. Clinon mentioned the president’s age, nevertheless, is way much less regarding than the prospect of former President Donald Trump successful again The White House.

Speaking on the Financial Times Weekend competition in Washington, Mrs. Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee who misplaced to Mr. Trump, was requested about Mr. Biden’s latest come across a flight of stairs in Japan.

“We’ve had presidents who have fallen before who were a lot younger and people didn’t go into heart palpations, but his age is an issue and people have every right to consider it,” she mentioned. 

“But you know he has this great saying, and I think he is right, don’t judge him by running against the Almighty but against the alternative, and I am of the camp that I think he is determined to run, he has a good record that three years ago people would not have predicted would have gotten done,” Mrs. Clinton mentioned. “He doesn’t get the credit yet he deserves for what is happening out in the country in terms of jobs and growth and planning for the future.”

An ABC News/Washington Post ballot launched this month discovered 68% of Americans say he's too previous to be president.

Mr. Biden has tried to spin his age right into a optimistic, saying he has “acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom” over his life.

“I know more than the vast majority of people,” Mr. Biden mentioned in a latest interview on MSNBC. “I’m more experienced than anybody who has ever run for the office and I think I’ve proven myself to be honorable as well as also effective.”

Mrs. Clinton, in the meantime, warned a Trump victory can be “disastrous” for the nation.

“If Trump wins, which I do not believe will happen … it would be the end of democracy in the United States. It would be the end of Ukraine,” mentioned Mrs. Clinton, who was first woman after which a U.S. senator from New York earlier than serving as secretary of state within the Obama administration.

Mrs. Clinton predicted that Mr. Trump would pull the U.S. out of NATO. She mentioned it's mind-blogging folks that will wish to re-elect him.

“Any sensible person who looks at this former president and says, ‘Oh let’s do this again,’ needs an intervention because he has only gotten worse,” she mentioned.

Mr. Trump shocked the political institution in 2016 when he defeated Mrs. Clinton within the presidential race. 

Mrs. Clinton confronted immense blowback weeks earlier than the election after she described half of Mr. Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables.”

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