David Axelrod says ‘it’s a very hard case to make that anyone should be elected US president at the age of 82’
David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to Barack Obama, has warned that Joe Biden has not done enough to relieve voters’ concern about his age since last month’s“I’ve felt for a long time, and I’ve said for a long time, it’s not in any way a commentary on his record, which I think will be honoured more by history than it is by voters right now,” Axelrod said.
Yet the party is pushing ahead with plans to hold a virtual vote to formally make Biden its nominee in the first week of August before its convention opens in person two weeks later., told the audience that Democrats had formed a “perfect circular firing squad”, giving his party the “run of the field”.
“There’s a lot to think about because I know he’s laid out the stakes in this election. The question he has to answer is, what are the odds of his winning? Would the odds be better with another candidate? I’m sure there’s a lot of discussion about that.”at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania had blunted the moment of Democrats pushing for a change at the top of the ticket.
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