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DNC Chair Jaime Harrison also shared his Biden story in a post, moments after the president's impromptu Thursday night news conference.
\"On AF1 I chatted with him on a myriad of topics from politics to family. Saw him bring down the house in SC talking about the promises made and the promises kept!\" Harrison assured his followers.
Other Democrats are flatly stating the undeniable truth: Biden is old.
But so, they add, is Trump.
\"President Biden and former President Donald Trump have both old, and if that's the only issue in the 2024 campaign, then the American people will have to judge between two elderly men,\" Brazile said. \"The president has has acknowledged that he is an elderly man, and he also has acknowledged that he's still up to doing the work on behalf of the American people. I don't know what else we can say.\"
The youngest member of Congress, Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., in a press call for the Biden-Harris campaign on an unrelated topic on Friday, flatly acknowledged Biden \"is old\" but deflected to the administration's record, which he said is what Democrats will run on.
\"Number one, yes. OK. President Biden is old. OK. Yeah. It doesn't sound like breaking news to me,\" said Frost, who is 27. \"When it comes down to how this is gonna impact folks down ballot and how Joe Biden's candidacy will impact folks down ballot, I see nothing but positivity -- because we're looking at an agenda and we're looking at a record that is positive.\"
The report alleging Biden couldn't recall the years he served as vice president or when his son, Beau, died, followed the president twice this week confusing European leaders with their dead predecessors -- instances his allies are dismissing as common mistakes.
\"If he had a momentary blip where he couldn't remember, as his mind is racing from the war in the Middle East to the questions that he's been asking, I think that's understandable for any of us,\" Goldman told ABC News Live.
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After Biden mistakenly called Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi the president of Mexico during his news conference, surrogates were quick to pounce on the fact that Biden isn't the only big-name politician to recently confuse a name.
Goldman called it \"nit-picking\" and \"inappropriate,\" he said, \"unless you're also going to do it with Speaker Mike Johnson or anyone else who makes a mistake.\"
Notably, the House speaker confused Iran with Israel last week on NBC's \"Meet the Press\" on Sunday, and Trump, at a rally last month, twice mentioned Nikki Haley when he meant Nancy Pelosi. Trump has also repeatedly confused former President Barack Obama with Biden at recent rallies.
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