VP Kamala Harris & President Joe Biden - PHOTO BY BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
WASHINGTON DC (WSAU) – As voters continue to lay out their concerns with President Joe Biden’s age and seemingly failing mental health, Vice President Kamala Harris says she is ready to step in if needed.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Harris stated, “I am ready to serve. When asked about concerns about Biden’s age and decline, she responded, “There’s no question about it.”
Vice President Harris’s comments come as the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 86% of US adults feel that the 81-year-old Biden is too old for another term. Of those who responded to the poll, 59% thought that Joe Biden and his assumed opponent, former President Donald Trump, were both too old, while only 27% thought that Biden and not Trump were too old.
Harris’s comments come almost a week after Special Counsel Robert Hur declined to prosecute President Biden for improperly storing classified documents due to his inability to remember answers to questions, saying, “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—b then a former president well into his eighties—of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
When asked if Biden should have been charged over the classified document storage incident, respondents responded in the ABC News/Ipsos poll in three different ways: 38% thought he should have, 34% disagreed, and 28% were unsure.
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