First lady Jill Biden has “extraordinary influence” over President Biden’s agenda to keep him from getting tired, and his claims that he feels young are catching the eyes of his staff, according to a report. new report.
“Jill Biden has extraordinary influence on the president’s agenda,” Axios reporter Alex Thompson said during a Tuesday appearance on “CNN This Morning.”
“Now it’s customary for first ladies to keep an eye on the calendar,” Thompson said. “It is not so normal for a first lady to draw up the presidential calendar.”
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First lady Jill Biden has “extraordinary influence” over President Biden’s schedule, according to a Tuesday report from Axios. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Thompson explained that Biden’s age is also causing conflict among his aides over how to manage the president’s schedule.
“Many aides I spoke with were struck by the fact that Biden, behind closed doors, repeatedly said, ‘I feel so much younger than my age.’ He says it so often and with such sincerity that there’s a tension that pushes him to push himself,” Thompson said.
“Aides feels like he doesn’t know his own physical limits and is trying to do too much,” the reporter continued. “It has this negative effect that he ends up burning out. Even though he does more events, he actually presents himself as more tired, which is how you get these poll numbers that show that more than 70% of voters are seriously concerned about the issue. gives him a second term.
Biden’s claims that he feels young “may make some aides roll their eyes who think the president “doesn’t realize how old he may be,” by Axios.
Thompson said Biden’s age also causes conflicts over how to manage his schedule. (CNN)
Jill is also “very involved in making sure (Biden) gets enough rest. She also pushed him to go on a diet, trying to get him to eat more fish and salmon and a little less junk food,” Thompson said. “Its role is really to ensure that the president, who is the oldest president everit’s staying healthy, getting enough rest and being able to run as vigorously heading into that re-election.”
Indeed, Jill considers herself a “protector” for her husband, especially since he risks being exhausted by his mandate as president and his life on the electoral campaign.
Jill has worried about her husband’s health for years.
“Joe works too hard,” Jill allegedly told former chief of staff Steve Ricchetti, according to Joe Biden’s 2017 memoir “Promise Me, Dad.”
“He’s exhausted. He’s not sleeping. This is going to kill him,” Jill Biden said then of her husband when he was “in his early 70s,” Thompson said.
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Several polls indicate difficulties for Biden, particularly regarding his age.
A Monmouth University poll taken in October found a huge gap in voters’ level of concern about That of President Biden advanced age compared to that of former President Donald Trump.
