Questions swirl now about whether he’s got what it takes to go for the summit again for a a second term as president.
By CALVIN WOODWARD, ZEKE MILLER and NATHAN ELLGREN
“We’re going to have discussions about it,” he said. Aides expect those conversations to pick up over the holidays, with no decision until 2023. Among the questions Pelosi’s move raises, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, an authority on political communications at the University of Pennsylvania: “Even if one is highly competent and successful, is there a point at which one should step aside to give others the opportunity to lead?”
In the distorted mirrors of social media commentary, every slip is magnified into supposed proof of senility. A moment of silent reflection by Biden is presented as the president nodding off.In an AP VoteCast survey of the electorate this month, fully 58% of voters said he does not have the mental capability to serve effectively as president. That was a grim picture of the present, not just looking ahead to another potential term.
And he’s been on a roll. The November elections produced the best result for a Democratic president’s party in midterms in decades. The president also sealed consequential legislative victories in recent months, on climate, infrastructure, health care expansion, military aid to Ukraine and more.“If I let it go for a week, I feel it,” he told the “Smartless” podcast. “I used to be able to go for a week and nothing would change.
In Cockeysville, Maryland, outside Baltimore, Nelson Hyman, 85, and his wife, Roz Hyman, 77, credit Biden with getting big things right and especially with appointing a strong team. To these Democrats, that adds up to an effective presidency that taps the value of age in a society that often doesn’t.
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