Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is shrugging off thinly veiled criticism from younger rivals that he is too old for the Oval Office. "There's no reason for me not to release my medical records," Biden said. Age has been an undercurrent of the Democratic primary for months,
HOUSTON — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is shrugging off thinly veiled criticism from younger rivals that he is too old for the Oval Office.
"Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?" Castro asked, wrongly accusing Biden of misstating how people would secure health insurance coverage under his proposal for a Medicare-like"public option" plan to compete alongside private insurance. Biden said Friday, as he has before, that his age is a legitimate issue for his opponents to use and voters to consider. But the Thursday debate marked a new turn with Booker and Castro directly raising the issue.
Story continuesSaid Booker:"I don't remember the last time I saw a record player. ... But there are definitely moments where you listen to Joe Biden and you just wonder."
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