Kamala Harris, 59, will release a medical report on Saturday concluding that she has “the physical and mental strength necessary to fulfill the duties of the presidency” of the United States, one of her campaign advisers said .
According to this source, who requested anonymity, the vice-president and Democratic candidate hopes with this assessment, which was not immediately published in full, to fuel a debate on the abilities of her Republican rival Donald Trump, aged 78. .
Questions about Joe Biden’s age, toughness and mental acuity dominated his campaign, until the 81-year-old president threw in the towel in July after a disastrous debate with the former Republican president .
The issue has since rarely been discussed in the media and has had no notable influence on the polls, which are still close, despite the strong age difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, and the ever more pronounced trend of the latter with disjointed digressions.
The vice-president would therefore like to bring the subject up to date, to her advantage.
His campaign team carefully read recent articles from New York Times.
One points out that the billionaire, already widely criticized by his adversaries for not having been transparent about his health when he was president, has not published a recent medical report.
The other article in the major American daily analyzes his recent speeches, concluding that they are ever more “long”, “confused”, “vulgar” and “obsessed with the past”.
The former president has a very busy schedule of trips and meetings. But he does not show fatigue comparable to that which often marked the gait, features and speech of Joe Biden.
And according to polls, his age is not an important issue for voters.
A Gallup opinion poll published on October 10 indicates that 41% of voters consider the Republican too old to be president. The percentage hasn’t changed much since Kamala Harris entered the race.
According to Gallup, in June, 37% said the same thing, while two-thirds of Americans then believed that Joe Biden was too old to stay in the White House.