Jill Biden has dismissed as “ridiculous” suggestions that her husband Joe Biden, 77, is less sharp-minded than he was in the past as the Donald Trump campaign released an advert attacking his mental faculty. Mr Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, would be the oldest person ever elected to the US presidency if he wins in November and has faced relentless questions from his political opponents about his mental acuity given his age. Mrs Biden starred in the second night of the Democratic convention on Tuesday, giving the closing address and being featured in a short film about her life, and then did a round of TV interviews on Wednesday morning. Asked in one about Trump campaign claims that her husband has “lost a step or two in the last few years” and whether that was a fair issue to raise in an election race, Mrs Biden said: “No, it’s ridiculous.” She went on: “I mean, Joe’s on the phone every single minute of the day talking to governors who are calling him and Nancy Pelosi [the House of Representatives speaker], he’s on the Zoom, he’s doing fundraisers. He’s doing briefings. I mean he doesn’t stop from nine in the morning to eleven at night.”
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