President Biden’s campaign manager is boasting about the president’s packed schedule as voters raise concerns about his age.
When responding to videos of Democratic voters voicing their concerns about Biden’s mental fitness, Julie Chavez Rodriguez pointed to the president’s busy schedule as evidence that he is up to a second term.
“I think that it’s important we continue to show the work that the president’s doing day in and day out. The most recent trip that he took overseas to the G20 — I think it’s a perfect example of the kind of schedule that he continues to keep, the kind of hard work that he continues to do on behalf of the American people and the fact that he continues to show really strong, steady leadership at every turn,” she said on CBS’s “America Decides.”
“It’s not just helping to protect democracy here at home, but also abroad,” she added. “So many people are looking to him and to his leadership, and he’s continuing to really step up and to show up both here in the country and on the international stage.”
The White House and Biden’s reelection campaign are ramping up efforts to dispel concerns about whether Biden, 80, is fit to run for office again. The White House thanked Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy after he mentioned Biden’s tough work schedule while in Asia last week.
“He has basically been working all through the night,” Doocy said while reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam, where Biden met with the country’s leaders. “The equivalent of an all-nighter Eastern Time. So, he’s probably pretty tired, pretty jet-lagged.”
“Thank you Peter,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The White House had previously ripped the media for fixating on Biden’s age, with aides going on the offense against headlines that were critical of his age, again pointing to his schedule as the reason why he is capable of another term.
Despite efforts to quell voters’ concerns that Biden is too old for the top post, more than three-fourths of Americans see his age as a small or big problem, according to a YouGov/Yahoo News poll. Even though former President Trump is only a few years behind him at the age of 77, voters are less likely to say they are concerned about his age, the poll found.