The White House breathed a sigh of relief after Tuesday’s election, convinced Democratic wins will smother this week’s earlier panic over a New York Times/Siena College poll showing President Biden losing to Donald Trump in five key swing states.
But the White House can’t relax.
Biden turns 81 this month, and let’s say you can increasingly walk through his deepest thoughts and not get your ankles wet.
Axios reports Biden is now wearing tennis shoes and using the short stairs on Air Force One to avoid slipping.
A special team of aides (dubbed “The Fall Guys”) surrounds him and assists the president when he doesn’t know where to go after he speaks at a podium.
Notes Axios: “Democrats, including some in the administration, are terrified that Biden will have a bad fall — with a nightmare scenario of it happening in the weeks before the November 2024 election.”
Voters are also worried.
The same Times/Siena poll that showed Biden losing swing states to Trump found 71% of those states’ respondents think Biden’s too old and 62% think he lacks the “mental sharpness” to be president.
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