{"id":552878,"date":"2023-02-17T02:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T23:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/white-house-brushes-off-haleys-call-for-mental-competency-test\/"},"modified":"2023-02-17T02:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T23:25:43","slug":"white-house-brushes-off-haleys-call-for-mental-competency-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/white-house-brushes-off-haleys-call-for-mental-competency-test\/","title":{"rendered":"#White House brushes off Haley\u2019s call for mental competency test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28eac3ae4a4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28eac3ae4a4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/white-house-brushes-off-haleys-call-for-mental-competency-test\/#White_House_brushes_off_Haleys_call_for_mental_competency_test\" >White House brushes off Haley\u2019s call for mental competency test<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"White_House_brushes_off_Haleys_call_for_mental_competency_test\"><\/span>White House brushes off Haley\u2019s call for mental competency test<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/bidenjoe_020623gn9_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>White House aides are confident they can combat GOP attacks on President Biden\u2019s age and mental acuity, saying he has proven time and again that he\u2019s up to the job.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The criticisms resurfaced this week as Republican Nikki Haley labeled herself a \u201cnext generation\u201d candidate in making her opening pitch for her 2024 presidential bid. Haley also insisted that anyone over 75 years old should be subjected to a mental competency test.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>It was a jab at Biden \u2013 who will turn 81 in November \u2013 and Haley\u2019s 76-year-old rival for the Republican nomination, former President Donald Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House and Biden allies say they understand that age and the president\u2019s mental competency will be at the epicenter of Republican attacks and they are prepared to handle it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, in a feisty response, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre offered a preview of how Team Biden will handle the attacks, pointing to 2021 when he proved his critics wrong and \u201cturned around the economy\u201d and in 2022 when everyone predicted another red wave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden, she said, \u201cbeat them at their own <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe they\u2019re forgetting the wins the president got over the past few years but I\u2019m h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y to remind them anytime,\u201d Jean-Pierre said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an email to The Hill, White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates echoed that sentiment, saying Republicans have played the age card and failed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201c\u2026I\u2019m not sure what they think they\u2019re accomplishing,\u201d Bates said. \u201cThe trend is not good for them.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, questions and doubts persist, even among Democrats, about Biden\u2019s age.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Joe Biden. I\u2019ve always loved Joe Biden. But I don\u2019t think an 80-something should be the leader of the free world,\u201d said one Democratic strategist, who requested anonymity to be candid about the issue. \u201cIt\u2019s nothing personal. I think he\u2019s done an amazing job as president but I do wonder about a second term.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone, if they\u2019re honest, wants an 85-year-old president,\u201d the strategist added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another strategist predicted that Biden\u2019s age\u2014 and his handling of the economy\u2013 would be the two issues Republicans would lob at him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously age is going to be a popular hobby horse for anyone trying to beat Biden, or keep Trump away from the nomination on the Republican side,\u201d the second strategist said. \u201cIn order to do this effectively, you need to link age with performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cYou need to convince voters that the advanced age of the people in power is leading to worse outcomes, and making life harder for them. Just age in a vacuum is not going to move voters.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Polling this month could give Republicans confidence in the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>It suggests that a majority of Democrats would prefer Biden as a one-term president, with some surveyed pointing to his age. Only 37 percent of Democrats said they want him to seek another term, which was down from 52 percent in the weeks prior to November\u2019s midterm elections, according to an\u00a0Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research\u00a0poll.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Seventy percent of Americans in a December\u00a0poll\u00a0said they don\u2019t want Biden to run again, largely citing his age, and another\u00a0poll\u00a0from November found that 38 percent of Americans say that age hurts a president\u2019s ability to do the job. Fifty-nine percent in that poll said they think there is an age at which someone is too old to hold the presidency and pointed to 74 as that age.<\/p>\n<p>Biden aides and those close to the White House say he has proven he is a capable leader and not the elderly, out-of-touch caricature that Republicans have painted.<\/p>\n<p>They say he can hold his own, as he did last year when he fielded questions from reporters for more than two hours. And he can maintain a break-neck <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> schedule that is standard for the commander in chief.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>They also point to last week, when Biden during his State of the Union address veered off script and was able to respond in real time to jeers from Republicans after he accused some in the party of wanting to make changes to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social<\/a> Security.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody who doubts it, contact my office,\u201d Biden said in response to heckling coming from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) \u2014 who called him a \u201cliar\u201d \u2014 and other Republicans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll give you a copy,\u201d Biden said. \u201cI\u2019ll give you a copy of the proposal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Those close to the president also say attacks on Biden\u2019s age will only anger senior citizens, one of the largest voting blocs.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the Washington Post reported that Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway warned her colleagues that attacking Biden\u2019s age was chipping away at their support with older voters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, some Democrats argue that Biden has been forthcoming about his health, including on Thursday when Biden had his annual physical.<\/p>\n<p>The results released by the White House said Biden is fit to execute the demands of his job and \u201cremains a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a memo following the exam, the president\u2019s physician, Kevin O\u2019Connor, said none of Biden\u2019s pre-existing conditions had worsened.<\/p>\n<p>Those conditions, noted during his last physical, include a stiff gait and high cholesterol. O\u2019Connor said Biden has no symptoms of long-COVID and attributed his occasional cough or congestion to gastroesophageal reflux.<\/p>\n<p>Political observers say the transparency will help Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best way for the White House and certainly his campaign to go at this issue is twofold. One, release any relevant medical data that comes after his physical or throughout his campaign, which is important just to be transparent. But two, more importantly, just let them go on the road, let him go work, let him go talk to people,\u201d said Ivan Zapien, a Democratic lobbyist and former DNC official.<\/p>\n<p>Others railed against the Haley\u2019s call for a test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a competency test for president, and it\u2019s called an election,\u201d said Michael Starr Hopkins, a Democratic strategist. \u201cVoters have made clear they not only support President Biden, but support his agenda as well. 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