Ex-Clinton Advisor: If ‘Really Old’ Candidates Are A Problem ‘Everyone Is Out of Luck’ No Matter Who Wins Election
Phillippe Reines, former senior advisor to then State Secretary Hillary Clinton, quipped that if “really old” presidential candidates are a problem then “everyone is out of luck” no matter who wins the upcoming election and the parties “should not have nominated these two guys.”
The comments came just days before the first debate between Republican nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic President Joe Biden.
Trump, along with other Republicans, has consistently depicted Biden as senile or in cognitive decline. However, liberal commentary has also recently shifted to focus on Trump’s viability, with focused criticism on his rambling style, verbal switches, and claims of memory lapses.
Speaking to Fox News host Trey Gowdy on Sunday Night in America when the host asked: “I am sure that there are Democrats who affirmatively want President Biden to win but I’m also sure there are Democrats that want Trump to lose. Is there any combination of bad polling or concerns of acuity that can theoretically lead to the selection of a new candidate? Or is it definitely going to be Biden versus Trump no matter what?”
The former Clinton spokesman replied: “It is fantastical or magical thinking to think that 4,200 or 4,500 Democratic National Convention delegates would agree that today is Sunday, let alone to agree to switch our candidates. Why would we switch? Joe Biden is the only person to beat Donald Trump. He is the guy and I agree with Doctor Wright, this is an optics issue more than anything else, not that I’m dismissing the severity of an optics issue but there’s a third factor here on top of age, because they are identical in age, and mental acuity as Doctor Wright said they both have their lapses, there is flat out health – that we never talked about. Going back to 2015, Donald Trump forged a doctor’s note like some of us did when we were in fourth grade. I certainly did. He basically deceived America or certainly was nontransparent when he went to Walter Reed hospital for no reason, until said it was a colonoscopy that he decided to do unscheduled. There are multiple aspects to this.”
He continued: “If this was about who is healthier or cognitive… whose age… [then] everyone is out of luck we should not have nominated these two guys, but we did. They were each the oldest when they were elected. This is who they are. They are each going to be, no matter who wins, really old when they are elected. Eighty, they should not [even] be driving cars, and thankfully they’re not – that does not mean they can’t be good presidents.”
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