Seniors in Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania believe he no longer has what it takes to govern, suspecting age may have blunted whatever mental edge he once possessed.
The Messenger, a new, corporate-backed outlet, interviewed “more than two dozen” seniors in the Democrat stronghold, finding some who think his age is not an issue “as long as his mind is clear” – a rather big “if” – and plenty who think it is time for the 80-year-old to hang up his gloves.
“He’s making a good front and everything, but I just don’t think he has the capabilities anymore,” said Barbara Petroski, a former executive secretary even older than Biden, at 86.
Petroski voted for Biden in 2020, but thinks he does not have enough in the tank to last through another term: “[F]our more years? I just don’t think he’s going to have the brain power.”
In fairness to seniors who do not wish to be tarred with the same cognitive decline brush as Biden – “Don’t compare me with him,” one 82-year-old told The Messenger – his “brain power” was in question long before he reached advanced old age.
In his first run at the presidency as a (comparatively) young Senator in the late 1980s, he made a number of bizarre statements about his IQ to the press, boasting that he graduated from the Syracuse College of Law near the top of his class with three degrees and was named Outstanding Student in the political science department.
In fact, he graduated 76th out of a class of 85, did not earn three degrees, and was not named Outstanding Student – revelations which forced him to issue a humiliating apology and buried his presidential hopes for some 20 years, when he embarked on a second failed run at the White House and wound up playing second fiddle to Barack Obama.
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