Trump reelection campaign adviser Lara Trump thinks misstatements, embellishments, and other verbal fumbles by 2020 Democrat Joe Biden are fair game for criticism.
“It seems like if you’re a Democrat in this country, your choice right now looks to be a socialist who is a communist sympathizer or Joe Biden, who I think a lot of folks legitimately question his cognitive function in many cases,” the president’s daughter-in-law said Wednesday on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom.
Trump said she, as someone who is supposed to root against Biden, gets worried about what he might say when he takes the stage to make a speech.
“And if I feel that way, I think Democrat voters out there probably feel very nervous about him,” she said.
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Biden has been on the receiving end of ribbing from critics who have questioned his mental health and fitness for office, including President Trump, since he announced his candidacy.
“For sleepy Joe, he doesn’t even know where he is, what he is doing, or what office he is running for,” the president said at a rally in North Carolina this week. “It doesn’t matter. Maybe he gets in — because he is a little more moderate — so maybe he gets in, but he’s not going to be running it. Other people are going to.”
Biden’s allies worried in the early days of the Democratic primary that his missteps could haunt him as he seeks the party’s nomination.
Mike Lux, a Democratic strategist who worked for Biden’s 1988 presidential campaign in Iowa, told the New York Times last year that “it felt like he was a step slow. If Joe comes back strong in the next few debates, I think it’ll be fine. But I do think he looked kind of old in this debate.”
The former vice president, 77, dismissed concerns about his mental health or stamina during an interview with Stephen Colbert in September.
“I think it’s fair to go after a political figure for anything. OK? I mean we’re — we stand up, and that comes with the territory,” Biden said. “But here’s the deal. Any gaffe that I have made — and I’ve made gaffes just like any politician I know has — have been not about a substantive issue.”
In recent weeks, Biden has made more mistakes on the campaign trail, including claiming more than 150 million people have been killed by guns since 2007, all while winning key primary victories in South Carolina last week and in multiple states on Super Tuesday. As he addressed supporters after his Tuesday victories, he confused his wife for his sister while introducing them to a crowd in Los Angeles.
Lara Trump said her father-in-law’s 2020 campaign is not concerned with Biden’s recent surge to take the delegate lead in the Democratic primary.
“The results only increase the likelihood that no candidate will have enough delegates for a first-ballot victory at their convention,” she said. “Which only means more chaos.”
