President Joe Biden’s latest mishap onstage has raised new concerns from Republicans over the president, with some renewing their requests for Biden to take a cognitive test.
Biden had been speaking at a White House conference on Wednesday when he asked, “Where’s Jackie,” referring to the late Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN), who died in August. The latest gaffe by the president, among past slip-ups, has led Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), who served as a physician to the president for both former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, to ask for Biden to take “a cognitive test,” according to Fox News.
“It doesn’t take a neurologist to realize he’s in serious cognitive decline,” Jackson said. “The American people know what’s going on here, and they don’t think the commander in chief is capable of doing his job. It’s past time for White House staff and the liberal media to stop shielding him from questions about his mental acuity and demand he answer my call for a cognitive test.”
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Biden has had numerous gaffes on camera since entering the White House, such as when he seemingly read a direction out loud off a teleprompter during a speech in July. Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC), a practicing surgeon and vice chairman for the GOP Doctors Caucus, told the outlet that these “kinds of senseless gaffes have become par for the course for this president.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that Walorski was “top of mind for the president” when Biden made the mistake and that he was naming food security “congressional champions” and “acknowledging her incredible work.” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued that the president’s “diminished capacity” shown by his latest gaffe “is so blatantly obvious that even the White House Press corps couldn’t hide their concern.”
Walorski had died in a car crash on Aug. 3, with Biden writing in a statement that her death left him and first lady Jill Biden “shocked and saddened.”
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The president is expected to honor Walorski on Friday by signing a bill renaming an Indiana Veterans Affairs clinic in her memory.
