Vice President Kamala Harris insists she is “ready to serve” as president.
With concerns swirling around President Joe Biden’s age, The Wall Street Journal’s Tarini Parti spoke to Harris and asked if she has to convince voters she is ready to be president.
“I am ready to serve. There’s no question about that,” Harris responded.
She also insisted that people who see her on the job are “fully aware of my capacity to lead.”
The question comes after a shocking report from Special Counsel Robert Hur.
On Thursday, Hur released a report on his investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents.
He declined to recommend charges against the president, even though investigators “uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”
Still, the report included several damaging sections. One portion labeled Biden a “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Investigators also believed, “Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt.
“It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness,” the report added.
Hur’s report also claimed Biden “did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
Harris blasted those portions last week, saying, “The way that the president’s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated! Gratuitous!”
She added, “And so I will say that when it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we should expect that there would be a higher level of integrity than what we saw.”
Still, on Sunday, an ABC News/Ipsos poll found a whopping 86% percent of Americans believe Biden is too old to serve another term.
