More Democrats are getting concerned of US President Joe Biden’s mental health status, a recent poll shows.
In the survey conducted by Issues & Insights/TIPP, the number of people showing concerns regarding the 79-year-old commander-in-chief’s mental state have increased from 59% to 64% in just two months and most of the increase has come from Democrats, the pollster revealed.
“Virtually all of October’s gain came from Democrats, who went from just 39% expressing ‘concern’ over Biden’s mental health in August, a high number in itself, to 52% in the latest poll. Let that sink in: A majority of Democrats now also think Biden possibly has mental health issues.” Issues & Insights editor Terry Jones said in a statement.
In addition to that, according to the survey conducted in early August, 59% overall, reportedly said that they were worried about President Joe Biden’s mental health status.
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The responses were recorded showing 82% of Republicans, 56% of independents, and 39% of Democrats, worrying about the same issue.
Moreover, the latest poll was conducted from October 5 to 7, with the same questions asked, showed an overall growth from 56% to 64%. The latest survey has a margin of error of 2.8 percentage points.
“Recent video snippets show Biden wandering off stage, apparently lost, after speaking briefly; forgetting the name of the Declaration of Independence, the nation’s founding document; not remembering that a congresswoman he was honoring at a ceremony was in fact dead, asking Where’s Jackie (Walorski)? invoking the possibility of nuclear ‘Armageddon’ after Vladimir Putin’s military suffered setbacks in Ukraine; and so on,” Jones added.
Following the said poll, the issue was noted by one medical professional.
In a statement released by Dr. Marc Siegel, a professor of medicine at New York University, in a recent commentary, he claimed that “the best way to approach Biden’s apparent multiple memory lapses and periods of disorientation is not to speculate based on video clips alone but to demand full disclosure and transparency, especially of a president almost 80 years old with a significant medical history.”
“If he decides to run again, I’m on record demanding full health transparency of all candidates for higher office, tracing back to when John McCain was 71 and running for president in 2008. I called it ‘the McCain Protocol’ in 2016 when both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were over 70 and running for president.” Siegel added.
Furthermore, Jones also wrote that the new survey suggests “it may be time for Biden to undergo a mental competency test, as former President Donald Trump did — and passed.”
