UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer dodged questions about Joe Biden’s age and declining mental acuity during a CNN interview Friday, saying it is up to American voters to decide their president.
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Starmer, who became the newly-elected prime minister of the United Kingdom earlier this month, whether he believed 80 years was too old for someone to serve as U.S. president.
“Obviously, in America, it’s for the American people to decide who they want to be their president,” Starmer replied.
Starmer also claimed Biden was in “good form” when the two met earlier this week.
“We were billed for 45 minutes. We probably went on for the best part of an hour. Covered a lot of ground. And, he was in good form,” Starmer said.
Tapper also asked Starmer if he endorsed Biden for president, noting the U.K. leader told Politico in 2023 that a second Trump term would not be his “desired outcome.”
“I am a progressive, and we’re sister parties with the Democrats. But I’ve also been really clear that I will work with whoever the American people decide to elect as their president. That’s what you would expect — and it is for the American people to decide,” Starmer replied.
Biden continued to raise concerns among Democrats over his mental fitness after his disastrous NATO press conference on Thursday, where he referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as Russian President Vladimir Putin and his VP Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump.”
The press conference was so bad that the largest super PAC supporting Biden’s presidential campaign froze approximately $90 million in pledged donations unless the Democrat Party substitutes Sleepy Joe as its candidate.