2023-04-28 21:31:18
Is it reasonable to re-elect an octogenarian president? From Washington to Los Angeles via Houston, the question is tormenting Americans, after the announcement of a new candidacy for Joe Biden at the White House for 2024. If he is re-elected, the Democrat would complete his second term in office. age of… 86 years old.
“He is old! “, sighs Avery, a student in Los Angeles, who still remembers the politician’s bicycle fall last June. Her shoe got stuck in the toe clip, but the image stuck with this medical engineering student. “I think it would be better to have someone younger, who assimilates faster and who is closer to the younger generations”. An opinion also shared in the polls. About 70% of Americans, including 51% of Democratic voters, do not want Joe Biden to run again, according to a recent opinion poll for the NBC channel. And among them, 50% invoke his age.
“The question of age is legitimate, but it is also becoming a political tool used by its Republican rivals”, underlines Marie Assaf, doctoral student at the Center for North American Studies EHESS and in charge of scientific cooperation PPR-Autonomy at the CNRS . “The arguments used are videos that we have all seen: Joe Biden who confuses things, people, who speaks to people who have died in the audience”, recalls Marie Assaf. This had been the case in September 2022 when the president was looking for the elected Republican of Indiana Jackie Walorski, who died a month earlier in a car accident. There were also widely publicized crashes used by his rival, four years his junior. “We could also ask ourselves the question of Donald Trump’s age…”, continues the doctoral student. Because beyond the single case of Joe Biden, the question of age raises “a malaise about the representativeness of the entire American political class”, still believes Marie Assaf.
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