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What Biden Can Learn From Another Elderly Statesman, Ronald Reagan | Opinion
Newsweek ^ | 04/25/2023 | ALLISON PRASCH

Posted on 04/26/2023 8:37:29 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

When Ronald Reagan ran for a second term in 1984, he was 73 years old—and, at that time, the oldest presidential candidate in U.S. history.

Biden eclipsed that record in 2020, turning 78 just two weeks after the general election. And now he's done it again with the announcement of his bid for a second term. Already the oldest president in U.S. history, Biden would, if reelected, be 82 on Inauguration Day and 86 by the time he leaves office.

While Biden's age will no doubt be a factor in the 2024 presidential campaign, history demonstrates that older presidents like Biden can turn the "too old" attacks of their opponents into a political asset. There are striking parallels between the challenges Reagan encountered in 1984 and what Biden will need to do to win reelection in 2024.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: biden; elderly; regan; statesman
I saw a YouTube clip of Reagan and Biden in the oval office in 1987. Biden sounded like a scum bag used car salesman while talking to Reagan.
1 posted on 04/26/2023 8:37:29 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Biden IS and always has been a SCUMBAG. Pervert, pedophile, and sexual deviant just round out his resume.

THANKS DELAWARE you bunch of morons.


2 posted on 04/26/2023 8:41:16 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

...How to be intelligent, moral, and righteous, rather than parasitic, idiotic, and corrupt?


3 posted on 04/26/2023 8:42:41 AM PDT by golux
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To: OHPatriot

Newsweek -the publication that sold for a dollar and was overpriced


4 posted on 04/26/2023 8:43:44 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Reagan cleverly diffused the age issue in the second debate by saying that age should not be an issue. Voters should not hold Mondale’s youth and inexperience against him.


5 posted on 04/26/2023 8:47:03 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”

Reagan


6 posted on 04/26/2023 8:49:11 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Daveinyork
Reagan: "youth and inexperience"
7 posted on 04/26/2023 8:50:56 AM PDT by Publius
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The words “Biden” and “statesman” will never belong in the same sentence.


8 posted on 04/26/2023 8:51:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because that’s basically what career politicians are, scumbag used car salesmen


9 posted on 04/26/2023 9:05:08 AM PDT by jpp113
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No politician could tell jokes like Ronald Reagan. Potato Head can’t finish a sentence. I’d like him to tell Reagan’s “Republican Kitten joke” ;-)


10 posted on 04/26/2023 9:05:44 AM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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Old dog, new tricks? God help us.

wy69


11 posted on 04/26/2023 9:18:09 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: OHPatriot

Biden’s always been a horses ass.
https://youtu.be/rca-_DOgBPU


12 posted on 04/26/2023 10:28:12 AM PDT by lilypad
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