Ahead of Super Tuesday, US President Joe Biden attended a press briefing at the White House.
Biden was on hand for the opening of an action group to lower costs for American families, writes New York Post.
It was during the event that the 81-year-old president was expected to answer questions from the journalists present. In contrast, the president chose to say that he would “get into trouble” if he answered questions from the press.
– I have many questions. I’d better not start with the questions. Then I get problems.
Biden then left the briefing at the same time as the reporters shouted questions at him.
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Can age break Biden?
It is not the first time that Biden has hinted that he should not answer too many questions from the press.
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– You are not good. I am not supposed to answer all these questions. I’m actually going to go, but I can’t resist your questions, Biden said at an earlier press conference.
There are constant questions and speculations about the American president’s mental and physical health. One opinion poll conducted by the research agency Ipsos shows that as many as 86 percent of adult Americans believe that Biden is too old to be president.
The comments from the president at yesterday’s press briefing came just hours after press secretary in the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, answered questions about Biden’s use of so-called “cheat sheets”.
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– Are you upset because the president has note cards? You are asking me a question about the president having note cards? The president who probably had one of the most successful first three years in office of any modern president? He has done more in his first three years than most two-term presidents, Pierre said.
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Set for a rematch
Not unexpectedly, Biden emerged victorious from the Democratic nomination elections, but surprisingly lost the territory of American Samoa. At the same time, it became clear today that Nikki Haley is withdrawing from the Republican nomination race.
Thus, it appears that the presidential election will be a rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
In response to the ongoing topic of Biden’s suitability for president, noted statistician Nate Silver, who started the Bureau of Statistics FiveThirtyEight came up with a so far unanswered challenge to Biden.
He believes that the president should conduct four longer interviews with media houses, TV programs and newspapers that are not afraid to ask him “challenging questions”.
On its website draws mentions the Washington Post, 60 Minutes and the New York Times as examples. If he cannot do that, Silver believes that “it will be a lot to ask the Americans to make him president for four more years”.