Keir Starmer has denied that Joe Biden is senile or too old to be president of the United States.
Britain’s new prime minister insisted the president was “on really good form” during their hour-long bilateral meeting at the White House Wednesday.
Biden is under increasing pressure to withdraw from the November presidential election, following an often incoherent debate performance last month that put his mental acuity under the spotlight.
With presidential rival Donald Trump consistently leading in the polls, a growing number of Democratic Congress reps and even actor George Clooney, a major party fundraiser, have said Biden should withdraw from the race.
Asked during a sit-down interview with the BBC whether the president had appeared “senile” during their meeting, Starmer rejected the suggestion, saying Biden was “absolutely across the detail.”
It was the first time the U.K’s new prime minister, who was elected last week and is in Washington for the NATO summit, had met Biden.
“We were going [at] pace through a number of issues, which was really important to me, because obviously, it was my first opportunity to have a bilateral like that. And he showed incredible leadership,” Starmer said.
“We’ve covered a lot of ground, strategic ground, international stuff … He was on good form. And of course … we went straight from that to the dinner that he hosted.
“So I was actually really pleased to have the opportunity to be clear about a special relationship and about our long standing commitment to NATO at this really important time.”
Biden is emphatically resisting calls to withdraw from the presidential race and has framed such demands as a struggle between himself and Democratic party “elites,” in a number of interviews and speeches.
“I don’t care what those big names think,” Biden said during a Monday interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, after the hosts listed some prominent Democrats who have called on him to step aside.
“They were wrong in 2020. They were wrong in 2022 about the red wave. They were wrong in 2024.”
Joe Biden is not senile, says UK’s Starmer
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