First lady Jill Biden called it 'ridiculous' for GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley to demand cognitive function testing when politicians turn 75, a poke at...
Haley was referring to neurocognitive or “mental status” testing like the, a common tool for detecting dementia related to Alzheimer’s, stroke and other ailments.
A year ago, Jackson, called Biden “brain dead” and rounded up three dozen other Republicans for a letter demanding he undergo such testing himself.Nine of the 38 Texans in the U.S. House would be subjected to the Haley test by the end of her first term. Sen. John Cornyn would face the test early in her second term.
The test also would apply to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, 81 – one of 13 octogenarians in Congress.
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