White House defends Biden’s ‘lucidity’ amid Democratic mutiny

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The White House defended President Joe Biden‘s age and mental acuity as he launches his own defense of his presumptive nomination as the Democratic Party’s 2024 standard-bearer.

“In my experience, the last 2 1/2 years, I have not seen any reason whatsoever to question or doubt his lucidity, his grasp of context, his probing nature, and the degree to which he is completely in charge of facts and figures,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters Monday.

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