Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume suggested that 2020 Democratic front-runner Joe Biden is suffering from creeping senility.
Responding to Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s assessment that Biden, 76, seemingly doesn’t even want to be president, Hume said, “I think he’s always wanted to be president. He has tried it before repeatedly, right? Hasn’t worked out. I think now perhaps he thinks it’s his turn.” Hume went on to say that Biden’s gaffe-prone style has been a problem for him in the past, but that his more recent blunders likely indicate something more serious.
Hume referenced Biden’s claim that he met with Parkland, Florida, high school students while vice president in 2018, despite having left office the year before. “The fact that he misremembered that is not a gaffe,” Hume observed. “That’s the kind of memory problems that people his age, and indeed my age, have all the time. I think the thing that may catch up with Biden over time, even among Democrats who would otherwise be for him, is the feeling that senility is overtaking him. And I think it is.”
“Jeez,” Carlson replied. “No one wants to say that, but you make a compelling case for it.”
Hume then went on to remember how Biden has always “undone himself” in every presidential run he attempts, and that leaders in the Democratic Party are likely very concerned that Biden simply doesn’t have what it takes to defeat President Trump.
Hume has before floated the idea that Biden’s plentiful gaffes are age-related, having tweeted last month that “Biden has always made gaffes by the bushel, but some his recent ones suggest the kind of memory loss associated with senility.” He then offered the example of Biden thinking he was in Vermont when he was in New Hampshire.
Biden has always made gaffes by the bushel, but some his recent ones suggest the kind of memory loss associated with senility. E.G: This one, plus forgetting remembering he was not vp when meeting Parkland students, twice confusing Theresa May with Margaret Thatcher. https://t.co/WpXDd0XVQL
— Brit Hume (@brithume) August 24, 2019
Biden has raised eyebrows over the past few months as he has made repeated verbal stumbles on the campaign trail. His most recent conflation of several wartime stories led the Washington Post to report last week that “in the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony.”
