When the names of 79-year-old US President Joe Biden and 82-year-old Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi come to mind, their age immediately comes to mind. Old age, which caused not only their words and behavior, but also the final performance of the government and Congress to be questioned.
Pak Sahafat – Recently, “Reuters” news agency published a report and wrote: Biden will be 80 years old by November 20th, and Americans are asking how old a president can be.
Ronald Reagan was 77 years old when he left the White House, while Joe Biden will be 80 in the next few days, and if he wins the next election and completes his second term, he will be 86 and if Donald Trump wins the upcoming presidential elections, he will be 82 years old when he leaves the White House.
The report adds: Now, according to the results of the mid-term elections, which show that the Democrats performed better than expected, it is expected that Biden, despite his old age and the observation of some verbal and behavioral slips in him, will once again run for the upcoming US presidential elections. However, many Americans are concerned about the age of the two possible candidates for the 2024 presidential election.
A joint Reuters-Ipsos poll shows that 46 percent of Democrats say that Joe Biden may not be able to handle the upcoming presidential election campaign, and 26% of Republicans do not consider Donald Trump suitable for this round of the American presidential election due to his old age.
At the same time, 68% of Americans believe that Biden is not even able to complete the remaining two years of his four-year presidential term; Other results of this survey indicate that 86% of Americans believe that the age limit for the position of the US president is 75 years.
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In addition to 79-year-old Biden, 82-year-old Pelosi and 76-year-old Trump, some senators are always criticized for their age. For example, Mitch McConnell, the 80-year-old Republican leader of the Senate, and Chuck Gresley, the 89-year-old Republican Senator from Iowa, have each been re-elected to the Congress for a six-year term in this round of elections.
The approved age for the presidency of the United States
In the US Constitution, there is no maximum age for the president, but one of the conditions for nomination is that he must be at least 35 years old.
The average age of the 45 presidents who ruled the United States throughout the history of this country was 55 years. As the first president of the United States, George Washington was 57 years old when he began his first term in 1789, while the previous president Trump served his term at the age of 70 and the current president Biden at the age of 77 started that other American presidents were older.
Theodore Roosevelt, the youngest US president, started his presidency at the age of 42. John Kennedy was the youngest US president to leave the White House because he was assassinated at the age of 46. While Reagan left the White House at the age of 77. “Jimmy Carter” is the oldest living American president who is currently 98 years old. Barack Obama is 61 years old as the youngest president who is still alive.
Until a few years ago, many Democrats believed that Donald Trump was unable to make wise decisions and run the country due to his old age, but they chose an older president; A person whose troublesome gaffes cost the Democrats and America every day. Therefore, the American people do not understand such an issue and demand the application of age limits for politicians.
Reuters wrote about this: Americans are actually not very happy with this situation, two-thirds of American citizens want to apply an age limit for positions in the American federal government, such as the post of president, membership in the Supreme Court, and holding the position of the Supreme Court in this country.