Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has two words for President Trump when the current White House resident asks his mental fitness: “Watch me.”
Biden, who sat for his first interview alongside running mate Sen. Kamala Harris of California, defends his ability after months of Trump that he had smeared himself on gaffs and verbal screws while on the campaign trail.
“Look at me. Min. President, look at me. Look at both of us. Look at both of us, what we say, what we do, what we control, what we know, what kind of form we are,” Biden said, referring to himself and Harris, during an interview on ABC.
The 77-year-old former vice president admitted that he thinks it is a “legitimate question” to ask anyone over the age of 70 whether they meet the requirements to be president, but said he is more than the job .
“I think it’s a legitimate question to ask anyone over the age of 70 whether they are fit or not, or are they ready,” he said. ‘But I just, only thing I can say to the American people, it’s a legitimate question to ask everyone. Look at me. “
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Biden would be 78 on Inauguration Day, making him the oldest president ever elected if he won in November. Trump is 74.
Asked about his earlier remarks that he would like to become a transition president, Biden used rumors that he would not run for a second term if he won.
“In any state where we have competing people running for the House and the House and the legislature, it’s important that the Democratic Party invests there,” Biden told David ABC of David. “Sa [what] I want to do is make sure this is over, we have a new First Chamber, we won state houses back, we are in a position where we are moving to a period to bring people to the visibility they need are to be able to lead nationally. And that’s about raising people. And that’s what I’m about. “
Biden and Harris also address the battle for the primary debate phase they had last summer, in which the California senator followed the former vice president’s earlier statements about working with segregationists and his opposition to federal mandate busing.
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Harris – who said last year that it was “painful” to hear Biden’s comments about collaborating with segregationists and his opposition to bus drivers – called viewing her past battle “a distraction.”
“I want Joe Biden to be the next president of the United States,” Harris said. “I believe in Joe Biden, I believe in his perspective, and honestly I think that conversation is a distraction from what we need to accomplish at the moment and what we need to do.”
The Democratic ticket put a united front in the interview, with Biden praising Harris’ work in the Senate and saying he felt the ticket should look like the makeup of the United States. He added that Harris “fits the closest and best,” compared to other women considered.
“She’s an amazing woman,” he said. “At the Judicial Committee, of which I was chairman for years, I just saw her persistently getting the answers, and not infamous until she got the answers,”
He added: “It just seemed to fit.”
Harris – who last year threw her hat in the ring for the Democratic nomination – added that she has no hard feelings about not becoming her party and that, if she had been, she would have wanted Biden as her vice-president.
“Joe Biden is probably a model for me of what makes a great vice president, and the model for me, if we win, God wants us to win these elections,” Harris said. ‘What he did, in – as a partner for Barack Obama, what he did in terms of leadership on very important issues in support of Barack Obama, is really inspiring to me as a model for how I intend to do the job. ”
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However, the good feelings did not spread to Trump, who continued to criticize Biden for his reaction to the new coronavirus pandemic. Biden has been heavily critical of Trump and has blamed him for the thousands of people who have died from the contamination.
As of Sunday, more than 176,000 Americans had died from the virus and more than 5.6 million people had confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University.
“I do not blame him for the COVID crisis. I blame him for leaving and not dealing with the solutions. The idea of saying this will go away, this miracle will happen,” Biden said.
“I can tell you what Columbia University Medical School said. It said that if he had acted just a week earlier, he would have saved more than 37,000 lives,” Biden said. “Two weeks earlier, more than 50,000 people … This is about telling the American people the truth, letting the scientists, listening to science … and stepping out of the way.”
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Biden was also asked about his lack of time to campaign and if it is possible to win the election without going to the sidewalk. Trump, who has mocked Biden several times since staying in his Delaware home, spent much of last week on the road at campaign events in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Arizona and Pennsylvania.
Biden, however, seemed confident that his strategy was working, and responded “we will” when asked by Muir if the Democratic ticket could win the general election.
“We will,” said Biden. “We will follow science, what the scientists tell us. We have managed to travel places if we could do it in a way that we do not cause the congregation of large numbers of people. “
Biden leads Trump by 7.6 percentage points according to the RealClearPolitics average.
