President Joe Biden praised his 81st birthday on Monday by kidding over and over about his old age, even as the White House unequivocally guarded his endurance and batted away surveying — and one unmistakable liberal — recommending that the issue could cost him votes in the following year's political decision.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president's age ought not be an essential concentration.
"Our viewpoint is, there's really no need to focus on age, it's about the president's insight," she said while featuring that Biden had effectively supported through Congress a few significant bits of regulation — including a broad public works bundle and drive on general wellbeing and battling environmental change — and visited dynamic disaster areas not constrained by the U.S. military in Ukraine and Israel.
"What we say is we need to pass judgment on him by what he's finished, not by his numbers," Jean-Pierre said. "I would put the president's endurance, the president's insight, capacity to finish this for the American public, against anybody. Anybody, anytime."
Biden, as far as it matters for him, went for humor.
"Incidentally, today's my birthday," Biden told a group on the White House South Grass as he exonerated Thanksgiving turkeys Freedom and Ringer.
"I simply believe that you should be aware, it's troublesome turning 60," the president added with a laugh. "Troublesome."
Noticing that the pre-Thanksgiving exculpating function dated back 76 years, Biden likewise said, "I believe you should realize I wasn't there — for the first."
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