Trump has been publicly going through his adventures of aging in recent days: Last week, he bragged about passing a cognitive test while president, but got the name of the doctor who administered it wrong, and he confused Nancy Pelosi with Nikki Haley and Biden with Barack Obama.
Democrats, too, have their own set of video clips to consume. They see evidence of aging in Trump’s bizarre digressions about sharks and battery-powered boats, or in the way he fudges words, like his rant at a rally on Tuesday when Biden’s campaign said the “video of Bad Joe limping is a total fake.” “You know what a total fake is?” he asked the crowd. The word Trump was trying to use was actually a “cheap fake” — real footage that has been deceptively edited by zooming in and cropping to omit context.
In Racine, some Trump supporters took a more nuanced look at Biden’s video and the age factor and how it affected expectations for the debate.
“Of course I watch it on every channel, and of course I watch it on the Internet,” Marjan Stern, a 79-year-old retiree from Kenosha, Wisconsin, said of Biden’s videos, but confessed that, given her own age, she feels a bit uncomfortable with Biden reveling in a moment of supposed seniority.
“We’re old people and we don’t like that,” she said. “We’re not going to make fun of him. teeth he.”
Will Morse, a 23-year-old recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who will be voting in a presidential election for the first time, said he acknowledged that Biden’s video may have been edited to make it look confusing. “But when you watch the whole video, it’s hard to disguise a lot of the context,” he said.
