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The President is separated by only three and a half years Joe Biden (81 years old) his possible opponent in the next November elections, Donald Trump (77 years
The President is separated by only three and a half years Joe Biden (81 years old) his possible opponent in the next November elections, Donald Trump (77 years old)And yet, potential American voters’ critiques of age largely focus on the Democrat as a training issue.
How has Trump been able to disguise his nearly eight decades and present himself as a resilient being, full of strength and mental agility, while Biden must constantly fight to protect his full right to run for election again?
Political communication experts point to two main reasons: one carefully thought out strategy of Trump’s advisers to make him look younger, and repeating the “Biden is too old” message perpetuated by the media, which scrutinizes every possible mistake of the Democratic president.
According to Tammy R. Vigilpolitical communications expert Boston Universitythe “advantage” that Trump has is “that he presents himself this way bold and boastful “People sometimes forget their age.”
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But “if you look closely at what he actually says or what he actually writes, it is usually not very coherent and makes a lot of mistakes“,” he told EFE in a telephone interview.
This attitude and his “overconfidence,” the expert says, cause his followers to “ignore mistakes,” while Biden is “much more thoughtful and thoughtful“, this attitude sometimes causes in his speech “a kind of hesitation that emphasizes the problem of age.”
According to a survey published this week by the publication ABC News/IpsosHe 27% of those surveyed said that only Biden is too old, and 3% He said only Trump. Meanwhile, 59% respondents noted that both were too old to hold this position.
Biden’s advanced age first octogenarian take over the White House, he is often questioned and was again on the front page after the report was published Special Prosecutor Robert Gur with the conclusions of an investigation carried out against him for storing secret documents from his time as Vice President Barack Obama (2009-2017).
In a strongly worded text in which he recommended that no charges be brought against him, he emphasized that he had demonstrated “severely limited” memory on the days when he testified in the case.
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According to a professor of political science at the University of Southern California, Anne CriglerHowever, the focus is on Biden’s age due to the effective communications campaign the Republican Party has been running for years, supported by the media and “opinion polls.”
“Trump and Republicans talked about his age for a long time, and the former president joked about it,” he explains to EFE.
In this way, Vigil notes, he has managed to create a “narrative” reproduced in the news that “talks about Biden as old and Trump as pompous, rather than giving a fair assessment on the issue of age,” he adds.
According to University of Michigan political science expert Aaron Call, Trump is also “master of television entertainment” who knows “how to reach people.”
“Trump has a lot of acting experience, he has worked in television and has done a good job of creating a youthful image, like Hollywood actors, with the help of makeup artists and other tricks,” he told EFE.
His appearance, as Vigil notes, was also part of this narrative. “She’s dyed her hair and uses self-tanning lotion.”Explain.
The image, enhanced by his partners, is much younger than him. WITH Melania Trump, 53, takes 24.
“Many older men marry younger women as a sign of masculinity and this is something that Trump has been very strategic about. Every time he remarried, it was to a younger woman,” Vigil notes.
On the other side is Biden and his gray hair, who also battled a “severe stuttering problem” throughout his life.
“Sometimes people blame their age for stuttering and use strategies to cope with it,” he explains. Thus, what is “not a matter of age” ends up being interpreted as such.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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