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Focus on Biden health underscores future Trump attacks | TheHill

posted onSeptember 8, 2019
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Article snippet: Conservative media’s focus on MORE’s health this week underscores how attacks on the former vice president’s age are likely to be a big part of the race if he’s the Democratic nominee.  Biden will turn 77 this fall, and the issue of his age has repeatedly resurfaced since he entered the presidential race.  MORE, who is just four years younger than Biden, already has made a number of allusions to Biden’s age, accusing the former vice president just last month of “not playing with a full deck.” Democrats and Republicans alike say they expect Trump to continue to play the age card, particularly whenever Biden makes a gaffe.  “They’re going to make it all about him not being physically fit for the job,” said Shermichael Singleton, a Republican strategist who briefly worked for the Trump administration. “Republicans will use it to point out that he’s not ready for the job on day one.”  The Drudge Report this week made a banner headline out of a story from the conservative Washington Examiner about a broken blood vessel in Biden’s left eye.  Mainstream media outlets barely mentioned the incident, and the blood in Biden’s eye was hardly noticeable for many people watching the climate summit hosted live by CNN.  But right-wing outlets played Biden’s eye as a major piece of news, foreshadowing attacks likely to come next summer and fall if Biden, the Democratic front-runner, wins his party’s nomination.  The effort would be familiar to anyone who remembered attacks on MOR... Link to the full article to read more

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