Joe Biden is pushing back at Republican assertions that he should take a basic cognitive test that President Trump has boasted about passing.
, which a White House doctor said he administered to Trump in 2018, includes a version that ask patients to identify animals, including a lion, rhino and camel.
In a recent interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News, Trump hailed his own mental acuity by referencing his recent examinations. Trump framed his results as a sign of intellectual prowess. He recalled in another Fox News interview that he successfully repeated back to a physician a series of words he’d been given audibly: “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.”Trump and his allies have repeatedly raised questions about whether Biden has been administered such an examination.
Allies of both Trump and Biden often seize on the other’s verbal slips. Both men have provided enough material to generate widely shared video mashups of their mistakes. Biden’s third White House bid has drawn renewed attention on hisKathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor of political communication at the University of Pennsylvania, said voters and the media should try to discern whether presidential candidates have the reasoning skills and temperament to handle the job.
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