President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign has a major disadvantage. With no pandemic, Biden can no longer campaign from his basement and instead has to navigate the real world, which is filled with all kinds of hazards. Rogue sand bags, stairs, and bicycle pedals all threaten to trip up the president at any moment.
It sounds absurd, but Operation Don’t Let Biden Fall is a ‘critical project’ for Team Biden, Axios reports. Surrogates for the president have publicly brushed away concern about Biden’s age as a right-wing conspiracy, but the campaign is well aware that there is a serious problem.
Will Biden’s team put him in front of the voters and risk whatever gaffes might come along the way?
Two-thirds of voters say that they are concerned that Biden doesn’t have the ‘necessary’ physical and mental health to serve as president – and that’s an evaluation that goes beyond the number of birthdays Biden has celebrated (eighty!).
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