Donald Trump’s campaign is facing a new hurdle as a result of the announcement that Joe Biden has decided to withdraw from the run for the presidency in 2024. This new difficulty is that the Republican candidate, who has spent years attacking Biden’s age, is now the oldest person in the history of the United States to be nominated for president by a major party.
Despite the fact that Biden, who is 81 years old, has been the target of criticism for years over his apparent cognitive health, surveys have revealed that the majority of voters were concerned about the president’s age even before the 2024 campaign got began.
However, on Sunday, July 21, Biden made a historic decision by withdrawing from the campaign for the presidency. He then swiftly backed Kamala Harris, who is 59 years old and running for vice president.
Due to the fact that Biden is no longer running for office, the burden of addressing the issue of age may now be placed exclusively on Trump, who is 78 years old. For a considerable amount of time, polls have shown that people would like to have younger candidates on the ballot for the general election.
As the oldest president in the history of the United States, Joe Biden was often confronted with questions over his capacity to serve a another four years, which would have brought him to the age of 86 when he stepped down from office. However, in the most recent weeks, notably in the aftermath of the first presidential debate during the year 2024, a significant number of these worries originated from leaders inside Biden’s own party.
The Republican Party and the Trump campaign have taken advantage of these allegations even as far back as the 2020 campaign, when Trump referred to Biden as “Sleepy Joe.” Trump has refrained from outright targeting Biden’s age in more recent months; nonetheless, he has made fun of the Democratic candidate for his performance in the debates.
Following the announcement that Vice President Joe Biden had decided to withdraw from the race, President Trump replied to the news by posting on Truth Social, in which he said that the president “is certainly not fit to serve – And never was!”
“We will suffer greatly because of his presidency, but we will remedy the damage he has done very quickly,” Trump wrote in another part of the post before he made his statement.
When he was 78 years old, Vice President Joe Biden became the oldest person to ever be sworn in as President of the United States of America at his inaugural ceremony in 2021. At the time of his inauguration in 2017, Trump was 70 years old, exceeding the previous record for the oldest president to ever enter office.
Trump will step down from his position as president at the age of 82 years and seven months if he is elected to serve a second term. The predicted record of 82 years and two months for Vice President Joe Biden would be surpassed by this, making Donald Trump the oldest president in the history of the United States.