Kamala Makes Eyebrow-Raising Comment On Biden’s Age: ‘Ready To Serve’

Vice President Kamala Harris has asserted her preparedness to fulfill her duties amidst increasing worries about President Biden’s age and mental sharpness.

During a conversation on Air Force Two last week, Harris outlined her campaign objectives. She faced a probing question about the concern that looms large for the Democratic ticket: Given the worries about President Biden’s age, does she feel the need to reassure voters of her readiness to assume the presidency if necessary?

Harris, speaking to The Wall Street Journal, confidently stated, “I am ready to serve. There’s no question about that.” She further called attention to her leadership abilities, noting that anyone who witnesses her work “walks away fully aware of my capacity to lead.”

The statement was released just before the publication of the report by special counsel Robert Hur last Thursday, concerning Biden’s mismanagement of classified materials. The report highlighted the president’s memory as suffering from “significant limitations.”

Hur’s comprehensive report on Biden’s mishandling of classified materials determined that no chargeable offenses were committed. However, the report highlighted several facets that to presented political challenges for Biden.

“Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023. And his cooperation with our investigation, including by reporting to the government that the Afghanistan documents were in his Delaware garage, will likely convince some jurors that he made an innocent mistake, rather than acting willfully-that is, with intent to break the law-as the statute requires,” the report stated.

Republican criticism of Biden intensified, but it wasn’t just opposition voices raising alarm. Members within the Democratic Party too have started to express their growing apprehensions about Biden’s age and its potential impact on his re-election prospects this year.

If Joe Biden is not mentally fit to stand trial, then he certainly isn’t mentally fit to be President of the United States.

It’s time to do something about it. https://t.co/l8usJaYDSL

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) February 8, 2024

Hur’s report read: “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt.”

Mr. Biden’s memory also appeared to have significant limitations at the time he spoke to Zwonitzer in 2017, as evidenced by their recorded conversations, and today, as evidenced by his recorded interview with our office. Mr. Biden’s recorded conversations with Zwonitzer from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries…

In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (“if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?”), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (“in 2009, am I still Vice President?”). He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.

And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he “had a real difference” of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.”

Last week, former First Lady Hillary Clinton said Biden’s age was a “legitimate” campaign issue, despite the commander-in-chief facing criticism in the wake of a damning special counsel report accusing him of being senile.

“I talked to people in the White House all the time, and you know, they know it’s an issue, but as I like to say, ‘look, it’s a legitimate issue,’” Clinton told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner. “It’s a legitimate issue for [ex-President Donald] Trump who’s only three years younger, right? So it’s an issue.”

The former Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of state also stated during the interview that while Biden and Trump may struggle to connect with younger voters, the president could underline his credentials as a “experienced” leader.

“I think Biden also should lean into the fact that he’s experienced and that experience is not just in the political arena,” she said. “It’s like, the stuff of, you know, human experience, character, wisdom.”

“I think he should be willing to really pull that out … and I think he should kid more about it.”