Maybe he wishes he had his old job back?
President Biden left a group of small-business owners in Pennsylvania confused on Friday when he told them that he still works in the Senate, where he served for more than three decades but left in 2008.
“My name is Joe Biden. I work for the government in the Senate,” Mr. Biden told patrons of a coffee shop in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, just outside of Allentown.
Mr. Biden was visiting the coffee shop as part of his tour of small businesses to promote his economic policies in the critical swing state.
It’s not the first time Mr. Biden has appeared wistful for his Senate days. In 2020, while campaigning for president, he told a crowd that he was “a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate.”
It was also his second major gaffe in the past month. Speaking at the Kennedy Center Honors in December, he announced that the rapper and actress Queen Latifah had earned “a Primetime Enemy” rather than “Emmy.”
At 81, Mr. Biden is the oldest sitting U.S. president, and his age and cognitive abilities are shaping up as an important issue in his reelection campaign.
An August poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs and Research found that 77% of U.S. adults, including 69% of Democrats, viewed Mr. Biden as too old to be effective for four more years.
The same poll found that 51% of adults and just 28% of Republicans said that former President Donald Trump, 77, is also too old. Mr. Trump is the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination.
• Jeff Mordock can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.
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