’80 is the new 40′: Karine Jean-Pierre rejects claims Biden is too old to run again in 2024 with bizarre joke when questioned about dire polling

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “80 is the new 40” when asked during Friday’s briefing how President Joe Biden, 80, plans to address concerns about his advanced age as he runs for office proposes re-election.

An AP-NORC poll in late August found that 77 percent of Americans believe Biden is too old to be effective for another four years — and 69 percent of Democrats agree.

A Wall Street Journal poll from earlier this month had similar findings: 73 percent of voters said Biden is too old to run for re-election, including two-thirds of Democrats.

“I get this question about once a week, I don’t know, I lose track,” Jean-Pierre said. “This is a president, if you think about it, in 2019 he got the same criticism, in 2020 he got the same criticism, in 2022 he got the same criticism. And he beats the naysayers every time.”

‘You look at his track record, you look at how he has been able to bring both parties together, to get some very important things done. That matters,” she continued.

Jean-Pierre pointed to the record 80 million votes cast for Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in 2020, noting that they won more votes than “any other ticket in history.”

While it is true, the second largest vote-getter in history is former President Donald Trump, who appears to be in a strong position to re-enter the general election.

The latest national election survey, Fox news’Trump has a two-point lead over Biden, although swing state polls do a better job of predicting a general election winner.

Jean-Pierre also listed a number of Biden’s accomplishments, including the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act — which included a number of climate change initiatives and lowered the price of prescription drugs for Medicare recipients.

She was then asked why Biden’s age was such an issue when he has such an impressive legislative record.

“You know, I understand the question about age, and I’m sure we all do. But what we will continue to talk about is the record that this president has achieved, it has been a historic record,” Jean-Pierre said.

“You know, I can’t talk to every American out there and their concerns,” she continued. “What I can speak to is what this president has done, right? I can speak to his experience, I can speak to the wisdom he has, I can speak to his track record.”

President Joe Biden, 80, speaks Friday about the United Auto Workers strike. Recent polls show that a supermajority of Americans fear he is too old for a second term

“When it comes to how Americans — what they say to me about your specific question — should talk to that,” she added.

The president got some help on the age question this week from Hillary Clinton, 75, when she explained why she was all in on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

‘When people say to me, ‘Well, he’s old.’ Yes, that’s true, but look what he accomplished,” Clinton said. “And if that’s not enough for you, look at the alternative,” she said, a reference to Trump.

Trump defeated Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

But Biden didn’t do himself any favors either at his Sunday evening press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam.

When asked about G20 countries failing to reach an agreement on fossil fuels, the 80-year-old leader gave a meandering answer using a scene he said came from a John Wayne movie to explain the dwindling number of climate change skeptics .

“And the Indian looks at John Wayne, points at the Union soldier and says, ‘He’s a lying pony soldier with a dog face.’ Well, there are a lot of dog-faced lying pony soldiers out there about global warming. But not anymore,” Biden said. “Suddenly they all realize it’s a problem,” the president said, whispering into the microphone.