Pro-Trump super PAC ad questions if Biden can survive second term
A super PAC aligned with former President Trump debuted an ad Thursday that attacked President Biden over his age and questioned whether he could survive a second term in office.
Make America Great Again Inc. aired the aid, titled “Jugular,” on MSNBC on the morning of Biden’s State of the Union address.
The ad opens with a clip of Biden’s press conference on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. It includes a moment where Biden, after recounting how Trump suggested he’d let Russia attack NATO allies, took a lengthy paused before saying he should clear his mind “and not say what I’m really thinking.”
“We can all see Joe Biden’s weakness. If Biden wins, can he even survive to 2029. The real question is, can we?” a narrator says in the ad.
The 30-second spot is interspersed with clips of Biden stumbling as he walks on stage at an event and tripping up the stairs onto Air Force One.
Ammar Moussa, a Biden campaign spokesperson, slammed the ad as “a sick and deranged stunt from a broke and struggling campaign that can’t defend Trump’s extreme Project 2025 agenda to ban abortion, separate families, raise costs on the middle class, repeal health care, and sow chaos and division.”
“Trump tried this strategy four years ago and got his ass kicked by Joe Biden – he should tune in tonight alongside tens of millions of Americans to see why President Biden will beat him again this November,” Moussa added.
Biden’s age has been a persistent issue for the White House as he seeks reelection. Biden is 81 and would be 86 at the end of a potential second term. Strategists have said Biden can use Thursday’s State of the Union to help calm concerns about his age with a strong, vigorous speech.
A recent New York Times/Siena College poll found 73 percent of registered voters said they either strongly or somewhat agree that Biden is too old to be an effective president.
Trump is 77 and would be 82 at the end of a potential second term if he wins in November. He has faced some scrutiny for his own verbal slips, such as when he confused former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Nikki Haley, his GOP rival.
Trump has largely avoided attacks direct attacks about Biden’s age, instead arguing the president is “incompetent.”
Biden, meanwhile, has sought to neutralize questions about his age with self-deprecating jokes and by arguing it’s more relevant that Trump’s ideas on abortion and other issues are old.
Updated at 10 a.m.
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