Joe Biden's neurosurgeon says presidential hopeful is not too old to run: 'He's as sharp as he was 31 years ago'
Former Vice President Joe Biden's neurosurgeon has reportedly insisted that the 2020 frontrunner is in good health and has not suffered brain damage after facing multiple medical complications decades ago.
Dr. Neal Kassell, in an interview with Politico, said that Biden, 76, is "every bit as sharp as he was 31-years-ago," adding that he hasn't seen 'any change" in his patient over the last few decades.
The surgeon had reportedly treated Biden in 1988 for two brain aneurysms.
"I can tell you with absolute certainty that he had no brain damage, either from the hemorrhage or from the operations that he had," Kassell said. "There was no damage whatsoever."
Ever since Biden's announcement of his White House bid in April this year, concerns have risen about his mental acuity after he made multiple slip-ups during campaign speeches and televised interviews. Dubbed as the "gaffe machine" by many critics for his blunders, the Democrat recently threw himself in another controversy when he placed two of the most historically poignant moments of the 1960s in the wrong decade during a speech in Urbandale, Iowa, on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Daily Mail.
"Just like in my generation, when I got out of school, when Bobby Kennedy and Dr. King had been assassinated in the '70s, the late '70s when I got engaged," Biden said of the two murders, which took place just weeks apart in 1968. He appeared to revert to the correct decade in a later sentence when he referenced to varied cultural trends that roiled the United States during the sixties: "Um, you know, up to that time remember – none of you women will know this but a couple men may remember – that was a time in the early, late ’60s, early ’60s."
A week ago, Biden, in Iowa, had said that "poor children" are just as talented as "white children." Shortly after his controversial statement, his campaign quickly clarified that the former vice president had misspoken.
The Democrat then on Saturday recalled being vice president during the Parkland shootings. However, the Parkland shootings occurred on February 14, 2018, over two years after he left the office.