In a candid assessment of the 2024 election cycle, Senator Mitt Romney took aim at both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump for their unwillingness to participate in debates, suggesting their reluctance stems from fears of exposing their age to voters.
Romney, a vocal critic of both Biden and Trump, stressed the importance of presidential candidates participating in debates to demonstrate their mental acuity and policy positions to the electorate.
“This is a democracy of the United States of America. We need to hear from the people who want to be president and see if they have mental capacity and see what their positions are on issues,” Romney said.
The debate dynamics for the upcoming election remain uncertain, with the Biden campaign declining to commit to future debates against Trump. While Trump has expressed willingness to engage in debates under any conditions, his aversion to the Presidential Debate Commission and absence from GOP primary debates has raised doubts about his own participation.
“People always find excuses for why they don’t want to debate. But you got a couple of old guys that don’t want to have people see how old they are,” Romney said.
The age factor has increasingly become a focal point in discussions surrounding the fitness of presidential candidates. Recent polling data from ABC News indicates significant skepticism among the public regarding the fitness of both Biden, 81, and Trump, 77, for a second term, with a healthy majority expressing concerns about their age.
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In general, I admire Romney. But that is an idiotic diagnosis of why they don’t want to debate.
There are a few clear and very understandable reasons why there is no benefit for them debating.
My instinct is to make a snarky comment “What’s the hiddush?”
but as a recently retired person in his seventies, I can sort of understand why Don and Joe want to hang on (while also appreciating why Mitt is retiring). No matter what you job was, retirement due to old age is an admission that you are at the end of road, and that’s hard for people to do, whether they had menial jobs, or ruled whole planets.
The man who calls his Ukraine funding vote today the “most important bill on which he’ll ever vote” is not a serious person.