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President Joe Biden stumbled over his words and trailed off before being cut off by CNN anchor Jake Tapper during a tense moment at the start of Thursday's debate as his age and mental acuity wear off. scrutinizing closely amid concerns that he is too old to serve as president. .
US President Joe Biden delivers a statement during CNN's presidential debate at CNN Studios … [+]
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Biden became unintelligible at the end of his response to a question about the national debt.
“We could wipe out” the debt built up during Trump's presidency, Biden said as he discussed his tax plans, before concluding: “Making sure we can make every single person . . . eligible for what I've been able to do with the uh, with the COVID, excuse me, with um dealing with everything we have to do with uh. Look, if we finally get past Medicare.”
CNN anchor Jake Tapper cut off Biden and turned to ask Trump a question.
At several other times, Biden misspelled and corrected himself, referring to “billionaires” instead of “millionaires.”
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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