MAGA World says Biden's lost it. Republican senators disagree.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

For former President Donald Trump’s GOP allies, President Joe Biden’s recent stumble on the Air Force One stairs was a sign of bigger problems. But Republican senators who’ve met with Biden say the 78-year-old president is just fine, with one describing him as “sharp as a tack.”

Biden’s fitness for office, a longtime fixation among conservatives, is dominating conversations on the right as Trump openly sows doubts about the health of the man who defeated him. One Republican senator recently texted an acquaintance his private suspicions that Biden, the oldest president in history, is mentally unwell. In on-the-record interviews, however, seven GOP senators who’ve met with Biden lately described him as cogent and well-versed on the issues they discussed. And none echoed the warnings many pro-Trump Republicans have issued about Biden amid the chatter about his stair-stepping acumen.

“In the two meetings I was in with the president, he was as sharp as a tack,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said in an interview.

Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), who joined Capito at a February meeting with Biden on Covid relief, said he didn’t see anything amiss: “I visited with him in the Oval Office, and he seemed well-prepared and well-briefed for the meeting.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maga-world-says-bidens-lost-it-republican-senators-disagree/ar-BB1eZe7P?li=BBnb7Kz

[CrispyQ]

1. Let's talk about the time the Con walked up the AF1 stairs with TP on his shoe. -nt

[gratuitous]

2. Go ahead, GOP, treat President Biden like that brain-addled former guy

Bring a bag so you'll have something to carry your head in when he hands it to you.

[lagomorph777]

3. Seriously, a stumble? This is what passes for journalism?

Anybody who's watched President Biden speak knows this is 100% bullshit. Anybody would even dare to try this crap deserves public ridicule.

[Quixote1818]

4. Remember how many times Trump literally got upset and just left. LOL. nt

[PortTack]

5. They're going to make this kind of shit up whether it really happened or not

[Caliman73]

6. Stupid, false narrative.

There was another thread on this topic, given Biden's excellent performance at the first formal press conference. The idea of Biden having actual cognitive problems is ridiculous and is a smear instigated by the idiot Trump.

No one with any sense of reality, would go after Biden's cognition.

There is always a legitimate concern as people age, with their cognition, but Biden clearly demonstrated throughout the campaign, that aside from the stumbles that EVERY politician on the trail makes regardless of age, that he was fit.

We worry about gaffes from Biden. Times when he is too blunt, or says something that would have hit well in 1950 or 1970, but not in 2021. We do not worry about dementia, or the verbal sewage that spewed from Trump's mouth coming from Biden.

[uponit7771]

7. +1, Biden gave better answers to answers to some thoughtless questions.

[Caliman73]

8. He is very skilled and intelligent about government.

I am sure he has heard it all, and seen it all. Like I said, the greater narrative about his being senile is pernicious and stupid. Not to say he hasn't made his share of gaffes and errors, but that is a human failing not a sign of incompetence. Trying to go off the cuff and sounding like a total idiot like Trump used to do (and still does), is a sign of mental deterioration.