JUST OVER A MONTH AFTER A SPECIAL COUNSEL report brought questions over Joe Biden's age to the forefront of the 2024 presidential campaign, Democrats are torn about the best way of addressing what is becoming one of the election's defining issues.
The president, 81, and his advisers struck back after Special Counsel Robert Hur's report on February 8 depicted him as an "elderly man with a poor memory."
Biden staged a rare evening press conference within hours. In the days that followed, Vice President Kamala Harris called the report "politically motivated," and First Lady Jill Biden joined a chorus of surrogates vouching for Biden's fitness and energy.
But as the president and his team have tried to move on from the damage caused by the report, White House allies and other Democrats have grown increasingly worried that the strategy of downplaying Biden's age as a distraction is the wrong approach to an issue that can't be easily swept under the rug. While party insiders are privately fretting that Biden isn't making a more forceful case for why he can serve as president well into his 80s, Democrats disagree over what the best message is to dispel the public's fears about his age-and whether Biden or his surrogates are the most effective messengers.
The concerns and competing theories about Biden's best path to winning reelection reflect the anxiety many Democrats feel about a general election rematch against former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.
Biden's historically low job approval numbers and lackluster showing in head-to-head polls against Trump have fueled increasingly intense chatter that Democrats would be better off picking someone else.
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