Analysis: The fight over presidential age is unfolding in the oldest America ever
on skepticism from within his own party about his serving a second term in office. Most Democrats would like the party to nominate someone besides Biden in 2024, and when asked why, about a third said they were concerned primarily about his age.That spurred an unlikely sort of defense from the man Biden beat to earn his current position. On Truth Social, Donald Trump clarified that the problem wasn’t age, but Biden.
The reason for this is obvious: Trump himself would turn 80 during his second year in office, should he be elected again in 2024. It’s not that 80-year-olds are problematic, Trump insists. It’s that, there were nearly 55.7 million people in the United States aged 65 or over — 16.9 percent of all U.S. residents. That’s the highest percentage in American history — but also a percentage that was passed in 2021 and in 2022 and will be passed again in 2023 and 2024.
In 1984, the United States elected Ronald Reagan to a second term in office. He became the oldest person ever to be inaugurated at 73. But in 1984, the median age in the country was just over 31, compared with 38.3 in 2020. So relative to the population, Reagan was older at inauguration in 1985 than Biden was last year.Of course, age relative to the population isn’t really the point. The questions about Biden’s age aren’t really questions about age, as such, but about capacity.
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