People in their 80s lead countries, create majestic art and perform feats of endurance, one even scaling Mount Everest. It's soon time for Biden, 80 on Sunday, to decide whether he has one more mountain to climb — the one to a second term as president.
Yet the president himself can sound equivocal. “My intention is that I run again,” he said at a news conference this month. ”But I’m a great respecter of fate."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision, at age 82, to pull back from leadership and let a new generation rise may spill over into Biden's thinking and that of his party as Democrats weigh whether they want to go with a proven winner or turn to the energy of youth. Biden’s verbal flubs have been the stuff of legend throughout his five-decade political career, so sussing out the impact of age on his acuity is a game for “armchair gerontologists,” as Dr. S. Jay Olshansky, an aging expert, puts it.
Biden is already in the club of high achievers for people his age. Unlike 92% of people 75 and over in the U.S., he still has a job. Much of the leadership in the U.S. Congress is over 70, especially Democrats, and so were Biden's main rivals in the 2020 Democratic primaries and Trump.“Life expectancy back around 1900 in the United States was about 50,” Olshansky said, “and we added about 30 years” since.
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