Biden, now 80, had said that then-Sen. Cale Boggs had “lost that old twinkle in his eye” and was out of touch at 63.
President Biden once hammered an opponent for being too old for office — even though he was almost 20 years younger than the oldest-ever commander-in-chief is now.despite being 80, was a 29-year-old local Delaware councilman in 1972 when he ran the cruel — and ultimately successful — campaign for Senate.
“To Cale Boggs an unfair tax was the 1948 poll tax. To Joe Biden an unfair tax is the 1972 income tax,” one newspaper ad read. “One of the biggest differences between Cale Boggs and Joe Biden is the things they worry about,” the radio ad said, according to CNN. Even left-leaning CNN noted that Biden’s age has been “omnipresent” in nearly every conversation about him trying to remain in office.
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