Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) appeared on CNN‘s State of the Union on Sunday and defended President Joe Biden’s record ahead of his expected 2024 reelection campaign announcement on Tuesday.
CNN host Dana Bash pressed the Minnesota senator about the president being 86 at the end of a possible second term and cited a recent editorial expressing concerns about his age.
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“These are concerns that are not going away, and you know that. So how do you think President Biden could overcome that?” Bash asked.
“President Biden has such a strong record to run on. He has gotten this country through the pandemic,” Klobuchar said.
She continued detailing his time in office, “He has gotten this country through the pandemic. He has the backs of the American people and Americans know that whether it is passing landmark legislation to bring down pharmaceutical prices. Whether it’s investment in infrastructure, it’s going to bring high-speed broadband to every part of the country, including rural areas in my state. Or whether it’s bringing back manufacturing, he has the back of the American people.”
“He believes we should make things in America and export to the rest of the world,” she said.
Klobuchar added that he has “stood up for the women of America… He is going to have an incredibly strong record to run on.”
The Minnesota senator cautioned that the country will not want “that chaos back again” with former President Donald Trump, who has already announced his 2024 campaign.
The editorial referenced by Bash was published on Saturday by the New York Times Editorial Board and was titled “Biden Should Take Voters’ Concerns About Age Seriously.”
The piece opened with the lines, “Only 47 percent of Democrats want to see Joe Biden on the ballot in 2024, according to the latest Associated Press poll. That’s not because they think he’s done a bad job in office.”
The editorial continued, “But many Democrats, particularly younger ones, are worried that he will simply be too old to be effective in a second term, which would end when he is 86.”
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“That may be deeply unfair — people age at different rates — and in Mr. Biden’s case, it’s impossible to deny that politics and conspiracy theories, rather than facts, fuel at least some of the concern. But candidates shouldn’t pretend, as Mr. Biden often does, that advanced age isn’t an issue,” the newspaper’s editors wrote in the piece.
It shared examples of “his refusal to engage with the public regularly raises questions about his age and health” and noted he has “held fewer news conferences and media interviews than most of his modern predecessors.”
