Top Biden Ally and Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday that former President Joe Biden could have served for another four years, despite several revelations about the former president's decline in cognitive abilities.
"Sir, you are often interviewed, and I don't think your acumen is anything to compare with your conversations and your ability to answer questions and make the date right, etc., and what we see from President Biden," Tapper said. "Do you think Joe Biden can really be able to remain president in January 2029?"
Tapper has been promoting his new book Original Sin: The Fall of President Biden, The Fall of the Cover, and his disastrous choice to run again, aiming to understand the cover-up of the former president’s decline while in office.
"Yes, I thought then," Clayburn replied. “I still think.”
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Rep. Clyburn told Jake Tapper that Biden would have served for another four years. (Screen shot/CNN)
"But I don't know, when people ask me, do I know this or do I know another one? The fact is, no, I don't, I'm here to put forward my meaning. So, it's not all about age," the councillor said.
Clayburn commented before Biden announced he was diagnosed with a “radical form.” Prostate cancer.
"Last week, President Joe Biden discovered new findings of prostate nodules due to an increase in urinary symptoms," Biden's team shared in a statement. "On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (grade 5), bone metastasis."
"While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive and can be managed effectively. The president and his family are reviewing treatment options with doctors," the statement said.
Tapper raises a question about Biden's disastrous debate performance and whether it is related to him.
“Absolutely did it,” Clayburn said. "Yes, I'm worried. The question now is, is this a condition, or is this an event?"
Clayburn said there was no long period of suspicion.
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Former President Joe Biden spoke to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Monday, September 2, 2024, before returning from Rehoboth Beach in Delal. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
"Then remember, many of us are worried about his schedule in the debate. He went on two overseas trips, came back and started preparing for this debate. I called it when I was getting overloaded because they were stuffing a four-day or five-day preparation for a debate, and I thought of two oversights, I thought of these two levies, but these were taxes on myself, so it was a problem for myself and myself. It caused doubts about any long-term situation here," he said.
Tapper asked Clyburn in a Hur-Biden audio released Friday, and South Carolina lawmakers said he had never experienced anything different in many conversations with Biden.
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"I often talk to him over the phone," Clebourne said. And I've never seen anything I thought wasn't in an ordinary place. I looked at my father at 80 years old. I can't see him doing the same thing as he did when he was 50 or 60. However, this did not disturb his psychological ability at all! Then my father died of prostate cancer. Then, my father died of prostate cancer. So I never spoke as quickly as he did. Didn't he speak as quickly as he did? Didn't he look like that?