Even Biden's STAFF think he is too old to campaign and govern effectively: ... trends now
Even President Joe Biden's staff knows he's too old to campaign and govern with the same efficiency as a younger leader, as they try to deal with his age problem as the 80-year-old runs for a second term.
Politico's Jonathan Martin wrote a column Monday about some of the advice Demoratic allies of the president shared with him after the party had a collective freak-out over polls showing former President Donald Trump - the GOP frontrunner - leading Biden in five of six swing states.
One of Biden's primary problems, sources said, is that he's in denial about 'his capacity to do the job,' despite his 81st birthday coming next week.
'The oldest president in history when he first took the oath, Biden will not be able to govern and campaign in the manner of previous incumbents,' Martin wrote. 'He simply does not have the capacity to do it, and his staff doesn't trust him to even try, as they make clear by blocking him from the press.'
The president will occasionally answer questions from the press, but he seldom sits down for interviews, holds few press conferences and has never made an appearance at the podium in the White House briefing room.
Democrats told Politico President Joe Biden is in denial about 'his capacity to do the job' as he runs for reelection as the oldest president in U.S. history
Aides surround President Joe Biden in the Oval Office. Politico's Jonathan Martin's column said 'his staff doesn't trust him to even try,' and wage a traditional campaign, 'as they make clear by blocking him from the press'
Biden, instead, will have to run what's called a 'Rose Garden' campaign - an 'accommodation to that unavoidable fact of life,' which is that he's lost a step.
That term comes from now former President Jimmy Carter's run in 1976 when he was challenging the
