Annoyed, the democratic candidate has strongly rejected the idea of having a cognitive test to assess her mental fitness, in the face of calls Donald Trump urging him to pass.
This is a non-farm. The democratic candidate for the White House, Joe Biden, visibly annoyed, has strongly rejected the idea of having a cognitive test to assess her mental fitness, before the calls of his rival Donald Trump’s plea to go with him, as this evaluation. “No, I have not been tested. Why the hell should I take a test ?” replied Joe Biden in an interview broadcast on Wednesday.
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A 77-year-old, his mental agility is relentlessly called into question by the campaign team of Donald Trump, 74-year-old, he will face the 3 November when the us presidential election. The former vice-president had earlier this summer said that he was constantly tested, before clarifying that he was speaking of the rigors of the presidential campaign and his meetings with the voters.
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“It’s like if I told you, before coming on this show, to do a test to see if you take cocaine or not. What do you think, huh ? Are you a junkie ?” he continues in the face of the journalist from CBS who asked him, for the convention of the us association of black journalists (NABJ) and hispanic (NAHJ) americans.
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This sudden release caused an immediate controversy on social networks. A journalist for CBS, Errol Barnett was later said to have asked the campaign staff of Joe Biden to give more context on the relationship between a cognitive test and a screening to detect if he had taken cocaine.
The campaign team of Donald Trump has it immediately seized the end of the exchange to put in doubt its capacity, because Joe Biden, who has often spoken of his struggle against stuttering, bafouille and resumes several times to say : “And I’m ready to let the american public judge my physical and mental health.”
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Donald Trump said in late July that it had “excelled” in a cognitive test, during an interview which was quickly became viral around the world. Proudly, the u.s. president stated inter alia that the test included, for example, “a question of memory”. “They tell you to repeat the words : person, man, woman, camera, tv. I said yes, it is a person, man, woman, camera, tv”.
reference is apparent in these statements, the democratic candidate was added, in the interview on Wednesday : “Well, if he can’t make the difference between an elephant and a lion. I do not even know what he’s talking about. You have seen it ? (…). I’m so excited to have the opportunity” to debate against Donald Trump.
Biden will not be going in person to accept his nomination at the democratic convention
Joe Biden will not be going in person to accept his nomination at the democratic convention Milwaukee, Wisconsin “in order to protect the public health” in the midst of a pandemic of Covid-19, were also announced Wednesday the organizers. It is “after consultation with public health officials and experts, who stressed the worsening of the pandemic of sars coronavirus”, the organizers of the convention of the democratic party (17 to 20 August) explained that they had taken this decision.
Joe Biden will deliver his speech to formalize his candidacy from the State of Delaware, where he lives, they said. Time and place will be announced “later”. Historic first, this decision makes the convention entirely virtual.
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