Freshman Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned 2020 front-runner Joe Biden’s “capacity” to be president, citing his performance in the first presidential primary debate.
“I think Joe Biden, his performance on the stage kind of raised some questions with respect to that. But I don’t want to say just because someone is 79, they can’t or shouldn’t run for president,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with The New Yorker Radio Hour published Tuesday.
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“I don’t want to use those proxies, a number as a proxy for capacity. I think you have to assess a person’s capacity kind of on a case-by-case basis,” she added.
Last month’s first presidential debate did no favors for the former vice president, according to polls. Biden saw a 10-point decline in a CNN poll conducted immediately following the debate in comparison to the same poll from a month before.
This is not the first time Biden and Ocasio-Cortez have traded jabs.
Just last week, in an interview with CNN, Biden labeled Ocasio-Cortez as “a brilliant, bright woman,” but argued that her “way-left” tilt would not work well in general elections.
His remarks were in response to the New York congresswoman saying he was “not a pragmatic choice,” in an interview with Vogue last month.
