MSNBC Guest Says Biden's Age Is A Benefit. Seriously.

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MSNBC political analyst Cornell Belcher claimed over the weekend that
President Joe Biden’s age was not only not a concern, but a benefit.

Belcher attempted to take a page from the playbook of former President Ronald
Reagan — who also faced criticism about his age when he ran for president —
and equate Biden’s age with experience and accomplishments that the other
candidates could not match.

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MSNBC’s ?@cornellbelcher?: “Biden’s even better positioned than
Obama … He [has] a story to tell about his old age; you know what
his age & wisdom has been able to do? It’s been able to pass
transformative pieces of legislation no president has ever been
able to do before” pic.twitter.com/EYu8zxC46e

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 23, 2023

Belcher began by addressing recent polls that show Biden struggling, and in
some cases failing, to come out ahead of Republican candidates like former
President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and former South
Carolina Governor Nikki Haley — and he said that Biden was in much the same
predicament as former President Barack Obama had been at the same point in
his presidency.

“If you look at where Biden is right now, it’s not that dramatically
different from where the president campaign who I worked on at this time
going into 2011, right?” he said. “Obama was running behind Mitt Romney and
basically tied or running behind the whole cast of characters who were
running at that time.”

Belcher went on to say that he wasn’t overly concerned with poll numbers
because those were likely to change over time. His concern, he explained, was
“the story” that each candidate brought to the table.

“Biden’s even better positioned than Obama,” he said. “He [has] a story to
tell about his old age; you know what his age & wisdom has been able to do?
It’s been able to move transformative pieces of legislation no president has
ever been able to do before.”

President Biden has indeed suffered in recent polls, most of which have
indicated that a majority of Americans believe he either does not possess the
mental faculties or is simply too old to serve a second term in the White
House.

Reagan once played off the same criticism during a debate, telling the
moderator, “I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue on this
campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s
youth and inexperience.”

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