Neelam Rahim | neelam@radioislam.co.za

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01 May 2023 | 16:10 CAT

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When the campaign team of Joe Biden released a video early Tuesday morning accounting his official intention to seek re-election next year, it meant that the US president – already the oldest person to hold the job – would be 86 by the end of his second term.

While questions about Biden’s age have certainly become a factor in his re-election bid, so to have troubling poll numbers that show the 80-year-old Democratic president continues to struggle with disapproval dating that outweighs those who approve of his job performance.

Aage is a criterion for Biden. However, the same is said of 76-year-old Trump, who has thrown him into the ring for the presidency. In his opinion, Brooks Spector highlights a less healthy lifestyle led by Trump than Biden.

Biden received the best medical care possible and conquered the vicious problem of stuttering as a young man. In his prepared speeches and presentations, he has learned to cope and work around the words that trigger a struggle, says Spector.

Meanwhile, both men are leaning heavily on their records to act as validators for what they would do with a second term, which points to their myriad differences in politics, policy and personality.

“There has never been a greater contrast between two successive administrations in all of American history,” Trump said in his statement Monday. “Ours being greatness, and theirs being failure.”

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