Direct | Biden pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey at the White House

2023-11-20 17:33:02

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, celebrates his birthday this Monday 81 yearsat a time when polls show that his advanced age could be a burden on his political future, although the president maintains that he wants to continue one more term in the White House and therefore retire from the political front line with more than 86 years old.

On his agenda for the day is pardoning a turkey for Thanksgivinga holiday that is celebrated this Thursday and is the main family event on the calendar for many Americans.

In 2021, Biden already became the oldest president to sit in the Oval Dispatch. He will repeat as a candidate in the November 2024 elections, so he would begin his hypothetical second stage at the age of 82, thus breaking the record that he himself has established.

Three out of four Americans agree that He is too old to continue four more years in the White House, according to a survey published in September by the newspaper ‘The Washington Post’ and the ABC News network and which reflected an increase of six points compared to the May data.

Biden, aware that the debate is on the table, has resorted to irony in several of his public statements, such as when in September he stated: “In the 800 years I have been around, I have never been more optimistic about the future of the country.” “I know I’m 198 years old,” he said in June at another event, in an attempt to take what could be a burden to his field.

Both he and those around him have also tried to highlight that age also implies experience – in fact, Biden arrived in Washington as a senator 50 years ago -. “One of the things that comes with age, luckily, is wisdom,” the president noted in another of his references to this topic.

In his favor is the fact that he operates in a markedly aging political environment. His main rival, Republican Donald Trump, complied in June 77 years, although the tycoon has not hesitated to publicly mock Biden’s age and cast doubt on his ability to remain in power. 50 percent of Americans also believe that Trump is too old.

The debate around the political longevity of some leaders has become especially pressing in Congress, especially after the death of the senator Dianne Feinstein At 90 years old and the obvious symptoms of weakness shown by the Republican leader in the Upper House, Mitch McConnell.