Kamala Harris insists she’s ‘ready to serve’ as voters’ growing concerns about Joe Biden’s age and cognitive decline impact his re-election bid

Vice President Kamala Harris declared she is “ready to serve” if President Joe Biden is unable to fulfill his duties as president as questions swirl around his declining cognitive skills.

Her comments come after a recent NBC poll found that 62 percent of voters cited “major concerns” about Biden’s mental and physical health.

And last week, special counsel Robert Hur described the president as an “older man with a bad memory” in a scathing report on the president’s mishandling of classified documents.

“I am ready to serve. There’s no doubt about that,” Harris, 59, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal when asked about the 81-year-old president’s age.

Harris added that anyone who watched her in her current role as vice president is “fully aware of my ability to lead.”

But her comments come as she tries to reassure skeptics that she can handle her role.

The vice president continues to struggle to demonstrate her competence after a series of political missteps and awkward moments during her first three years.

Harris’s approval ratings are even lower than Biden’s, with a recent NBC News poll showing her with just 28 percent approval.

She has largely abdicated her responsibilities for the border crises and the root causes of migration, choosing instead to blame Congress for failing to pass immigration reform.

Axios reported Monday that Biden’s team was disappointed with her performance on the border issue, with a former senior White House aide describing her as “ineffective at best.”

Harris is also routinely ridiculed for her awkward “word salad” speeches that often spiral out of control and are weighed down by a large number of dependent clauses.

Harris is under even more scrutiny as Biden regularly shows signs of physical and mental decline.

The president routinely has difficulty remembering details of events, names of people and details of stories that he easily recalled during public remarks.

Americans are also increasingly concerned about Biden after a damning report from special counsel Robert Hur, in which he described the president as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”

Harris turned down a request from Biden’s team to appear on a Sunday news show to defend the president, the Wall Street Journal reported, opting instead to answer a reporter’s question after her event in Washington, D.C.

Harris deliberately denounced the report during public comments.

“The way the president’s attitude was characterized in that report could not be more wrong on the facts and, clearly, politically motivated – unnecessary,” she said.

She defended Biden as “before and on top of everything” during the “countless hours” she spent with the president after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel.