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A Fox News host has claimed it’s “ridiculous” for Democrats to question Donald Trump’s age – despite the 78-year-old ex-president being the oldest presidential nominee in US history after Joe Biden dropped out of the race for the White House.
Less than 24 hours after the 81-year-old president stepped off the Democratic ticket on Sunday Kamala Harris, 59, has secured enough delegates to be nominated as the party’s presidential candidate. That has led Democrats to pounce on Trump and his age - a tactic straight out of the GOP playbook against Biden.
News anchor Dana Perino, however, said it was unfair to question the Republican presidential nominee over his age despite months of the outlet blasting Biden as both incompetent and incapacitated.
“The Democrats have this bat signal that goes out, like ‘here’s the new talking point,’” Perino said on Monday’s episode of The Five.
“So after saying that Joe Biden was perfectly fine, and his age didn’t matter at all, and he ran circles around them at the White House, now all of the sudden this memo basically goes out that says, ‘Trump is now the oldest nominee in history,’” she continued.
“And it’s so incredibly ridiculous, because they actually seem to believe that cutesy ridiculousness like that might work. I don’t think it’s going to work.”
It comes as Biden announced that he would drop his re-election bid following Democrats’ growing concerns over his ability to lead the nation for a second term.
But after Trump’s campaign team perpetuated doubts over Biden’s age and mental fitness after his disaster debate last month, the same arguments are coming back to haunt the former president.
A Washington Post and ABC News poll, conducted before last week’s Republican National Convention, found that 60 percent of Americans said Trump is too old for another term as president.
Now, Trump is struggling to shake a new title: being the oldest presidential nominee in US history.
“Seriously, how do you convince people you’re going to make America great again with some old guy who slurs his words and rambles incoherently after his jail ti– … um, I mean bedtime??,” anti-Trump Republican George Conway wrote on X.
In a seperate interview with MeidasTouch, he added: “Now, Trump is the old man in the race. Now, after having raised the issue of cognitive decline, he’s the only one that argument applies to.”
“Donald Trump is too old to be President,” Ohio representative Casey Weinstein also wrote on X.
