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Some of the most aged politicians in the United States are in the Democrat Party and now voters are starting to get concerned about it.
A new survey shows that a majority of voters support having mental tests for both President Joe Biden, 79, and House Speaker and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, 82, The Washington Examiner reported.
“SILVER ALERT 58% say cognitive test time — 55% say Biden won’t last his term,” John McLaughlin of the McLaughlin & Associates survey, said on Twitter.
In the survey, shared with Secrets, 58% said Biden should take a test and release the results. Just 30% said he shouldn’t.
The results follow a series of apparent mental flubs by the 79-year-old president, the latest being a flip, flop, flip on calling for the ouster of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Yesterday, his staff wrote him a notecard titled “Tough Putin Q&A Talking Points.”
The poll of 1,000 voters also found similar calls for a cognitive test for Pelosi, 81. McLaughlin said 61% want Pelosi to take the test and release the results.
And when asked between Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris who’s more incompetent, the survey found that it’s a near toss-up, with Biden at 15%, Harris at 11%, and “Both” at 33%.
“This means six in 10 voters view either our president, the vice president or both as incompetent. This is a very disturbing result at a time when inflation is rampant and war is threatening the world,” McLaughlin said in his analysis for Newsmax.
It comes after the White House has had to walk back comments the president made during his trip to Europe three times, a point Fox News reporter Peter Doocy made when questioning him on Monday.
The White House shared a transcript of the questioning:
Q Are you worried that other leaders in the world are going to start to doubt that America is back if some of these big things that you say on the world stage keep getting walked back?
THE PRESIDENT: What’s getting walked back?
Q It — made it sound like, just in the last couple of days — it sounded like you told U.S. troops they were going to Ukraine. It sounded like you said it was possible the U.S. would use a chemical weapon. And it sounded like you were calling for regime change in Russia. And we know —
THE PRESIDENT: None of the three occurred.
Q None of the three occurred?
THE PRESIDENT: None of the three.
Q Mr. President —
THE PRESIDENT: You interpret the language that way. I was talking to the troops. We were talking about helping train the troops in — that are — the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland. That’s what the context.
I sat there with those guys for a couple hours. That’s what we talked about.
Q So when you said, “You’re going to see when you’re there,” you were not intending to send U.S. (inaudible)?
THE PRESIDENT: I was referring to with — being with and talking with the Ukrainian troops who are in Poland.
Q And when you said a chemical weapon use by Russia would “trigger a response in kind”?
THE PRESDIDENT: It will trigger a significant response (inaudible).
Q What does that mean?
THE PRESIDENT: I’m not going to tell you. Why would I tell you? You got to be silly.
Q The world wants to know.
THE PRESIDENT: The world wants to know a lot of things. I’m not telling them what the response would be; then Russia knows the response.
Q Mr. President, I still want to get back to your
original words that he cannot remain in power. Can you help us understand: You have more foreign policy experience than any President who has ever held this office. Whether those are your personal feelings or your feelings as President, do you understand why people would believe you, as someone commanding one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world, saying someone cannot remain in power is a statement of U.S. policy?
And also, are you concerned about propaganda use of those remarks by the Russians?
THE PRESIDENT: No and no.
Q Tell me why. You have so much experience. You are the leader of this country.
THE PRESIDENT: Because it’s ridiculous. Nobody believes we’re going to take town — I was going to — I was talking about taking down Putin. Nobody who believes that. Number one.
Number two, what have I been talking about all — since this all began? The only war that’s worse than one intended is one that’s unintended. The last thing I want to do is engage in a land war or a nuclear war with Russia. That’s not part of it.
I was expressing my outrage at the behavior of this man. It’s outrageous. It’s outrageous. And it’s more an aspiration than anything. He shouldn’t be in power.
There’s no — I mean, people like this shouldn’t be ruling countries, but they do. The fact they do — but it doesn’t mean I can’t express my outrage about it.
