{"id":131875,"date":"2024-06-25T09:10:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T06:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/age-anxiety-hangs-over-first-biden-trump-debate\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T09:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T06:10:05","slug":"age-anxiety-hangs-over-first-biden-trump-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/age-anxiety-hangs-over-first-biden-trump-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Age anxiety hangs over first Biden-Trump debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131875\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nPresident Joe Biden, 81, and former president Donald Trump, 78, are the two oldest major party candidates for the US presidency. For Joe Biden and Donald Trump &#8211; the two oldest candidates ever to seek the US presidency &#8211; age is an election issue neither can escape. On Thursday, the current Democratic president, 81, and his Republican predecessor, 78, will face off in Atlanta, Georgia, for the first of two debates ahead of November\u2019s vote, offering Americans a rare, split-screen comparison of the two men\u2019s physical and mental strength.<\/p>\n<p>For 90 minutes, under the glare of the high-definition cameras, President Biden and former President Trump \u2014 who remain nearly tied in national opinion polls \u2014 will spar on issues ranging from the economy and foreign wars to immigration and the future of democracy. One slip-up, stumble or verbal miscue could cement concerns about their advanced age, with the potential for reshaping an already tight presidential race as voters begin to pay attention.<br \/>\nBut delivering a vigorous performance may be more critical for Mr Biden, the nation\u2019s oldest president who has been dogged by questions about his stamina and mental fitness since he took office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no hiding the fact that Biden\u2019s 81, there\u2019s no hiding the fact that Trump\u2019s basically the same age,&#8221; said Jim Messina, a Democratic strategist who managed Barack Obama&#8217;s 2012 presidential campaign. &#8220;It\u2019s not a contest of age, it\u2019s a contest of policy and character. Part of what needs to happen on Thursday night is just to begin the conversation about the differences between them,&#8221; Mr Messina said.<\/p>\n<p>Polling shows that voters are far more concerned about Mr Biden\u2019s age than his opponent\u2019s. But if Trump wins, he would break Mr Biden\u2019s record as the oldest president before the end of his term. A March New York Times\/Siena College poll suggested 73% of registered voters believed Mr Biden was \u201cjust too old to be an effective president\u201d. Voters of all age groups expressed these concerns about the president\u2019s fitness for office, including those 65 and older, according to the survey. Just 42% of registered voters said the same about Trump, despite a mere three-and-a-half-year age gap.\u201cIt ought to be about both of them, but Biden looks his age,\u201d said Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Biden was declared \u201cfit for duty\u201d earlier this year by a White House physician, but concerns about his age have persisted since he took office. Signs of his aging have become more notable in recent years, including a softer speaking voice, occasional memory lapses and a \u201cstiffened gait\u201d which his doctor partly attributes to arthritis.\u00a0 As president, he is \u201ccovered almost every moment he is out in public\u201d which means he endures more scrutiny than his challenger, Mr Sabato said.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn00e8dzq46o\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn00e8dzq46o\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/age-anxiety-hangs-over-first-biden-trump-debate\/\">Age anxiety hangs over first Biden-Trump debate<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[5756,800,3873,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-131875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-age","tag-biden","tag-trump","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}