Former President Trump renewed his request for President Biden to undergo a cognitive test on Friday, telling Biden he would accompany him.
“Joe should immediately take a cognitive test, and I will go with him and take one as well,” Trump said. wrote in a post in Social Truth. “For the first time we will be a team and we will do this for the good of the country…”
Biden has faced intense scrutiny in recent weeks over his age, mental fitness and ability to complete four more years in the White House if reelected in November. After a poor debate performance against Trump last month — where he appeared to lack energy and stumbled over his words — a growing list of Democrats called on the president to withdraw from the race.
Others, including Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) and CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, repeated calls for him to undergo cognitive testing.
Trump has repeatedly called on Biden to join him in carrying out cognitive tests, even before the presidential debate. The former president has also boasted that he received a perfect score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA).
Dr. Gupta, noted in a recent opinion articlehowever, that the MoCA “is not the same level of cognitive testing that the medical experts I spoke with would like Biden to do.”
The presumptive GOP nominee also expressed support for a cognitive testing requirement for candidates in the future.
“And from now on, all presidential candidates must be required to take a Cognitive Test and an Aptitude Test, regardless of age!!!” He wrote.
Former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who suspended her campaign in March and released her delegates to the former president earlier this week, has put forward a similar demand based on the candidates’ ages.
“We should seriously look at the age of the people who govern our country and understand if this is what we want,” she said at the time.
Biden has rejected calls for a cognitive test, often saying the rigor of the presidential job is a sufficient test. He also stated that he intends to remain in the race and classified the debate as “a bad episode”.
“Look, I take a cognitive test every day. Every day I take this test; everything I do,” Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in his first post-debate interview.
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