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“I think there were a lot of moments where a number of us were looking on stage where he tends to go on sometimes,” Booker said on CNN after the debate. “There are definitely moments where you listen to Joe Biden and you just wonder.” <ref>[https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/461237-castro-on-feisty-biden-exchange-i-wasnt-taking-a-shot-at-his-age Castro on feisty Biden exchange: 'I wasn't taking a shot at his age'], The Hill</ref>}}
“I think there were a lot of moments where a number of us were looking on stage where he tends to go on sometimes,” Booker said on CNN after the debate. “There are definitely moments where you listen to Joe Biden and you just wonder.” <ref>[https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/461237-castro-on-feisty-biden-exchange-i-wasnt-taking-a-shot-at-his-age Castro on feisty Biden exchange: 'I wasn't taking a shot at his age'], The Hill</ref>}}
====Nuclear codes====
:{{See also|25th Amendment|Legal capacity}}
Four weeks into the junta, ''[[Politico]]'' reported that nearly three dozen House Democrats called on Biden to relinquish his sole authority to launch [[nuclear weapon]].
[[File:Biden fall.jpg|left|300px|thumb|With advanced age Biden has become increasingly unbalanced.]]
{{quotebox-float|“...Vesting one person with this authority entails real risks...Past presidents have threatened to attack other countries with nuclear weapons or exhibited behavior that caused other officials to express concern about the president’s judgment...While any president would presumably consult with advisors before ordering a nuclear attack, there is no requirement to do so...The military is obligated to carry out the order if they assess it is legal under the laws of war. Under the current posture of U.S. nuclear forces, that attack would happen in minutes.”<ref>https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-defense/2021/02/23/tester-outlines-defense-budget-strategy-793538?cid=su_tw_md</ref>}} The effort was spearheaded by Democrat Reps. [[Jimmy Panetta]] and [[Ted Lieu]] after both international and national media questioned Biden's mental capacity and the threat it posed to national security.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/believe-joe-bidens-mental-state-clear-national-security-threat-newsmax-host-grant-stinchfield-joe-bidens-dementia-video/</ref><ref>https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6233603126001</ref> In late 2020, [[Speaker Nancy Pelosi]] introduced a bill creating a [[25th Amendment]] Commission. The 25th Amendment reads in part, "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments '''''or of such other body as Congress may by law provide..."'''''. Biden insiders began dumping on Kamala Harris in fear she would invoke the 25th Amendment as Biden's dementia became more obvious. When a Trafalgar poll revealed 58% of Americans had no confidence that Kamala Harris could assume the duties of president, a series of [[leak]]s trashing Harris emanated from the White House.<ref>https://www.dickmorris.com/harris-poll-numbers-crashing-lunch-alert/</ref> In the wake of her disastrous photo-op in Guatemala, Mexico, and El Paso, staffers began to quit, citing that Kamala is impossible to work with.<ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2021/06/26/top-travel-aides-for-kamala-harris-are-quitting-and-it-could-hardly-come-at-a-worse-time-n2591632</ref> ''[[Politico]]'' reported that Kamala's office is ''"Not a healthy environment’: rife with dissent. There is dysfunction inside the VP’s office, aides and administration officials say. And it’s emanating from the top."''<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/30/kamala-harris-office-dissent-497290</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"Harris’ team is experiencing low morale, porous lines of communication and diminished trust among aides and senior officials....22 current and former vice presidential aides, administration officials and associates of Harris and Biden described a tense and at times dour office atmosphere. Aides ....created an insular environment where ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals and decisions are dragged out. Often, they said, she refuses to take responsibility for delicate issues and blames staffers for the negative results that ensue.... “It all starts at the top,” said one of the administration officials, who like others requested anonymity to be able to speak candidly about a sensitive matter.
“People are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short fuses and it’s an abusive environment,” said another person with direct knowledge of how Harris’ office is run. “It’s not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated. It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like s---.”
The dysfunction in the VP’s ranks threatens to complicate the White House’s carefully crafted image as a place staffed by a close-knit group of professionals working in concert to advance the president’s agenda. It’s pronounced enough that members of the president’s own team have taken notice and are concerned about the way Harris’ staffers are treated....for some of the people who know Harris best, it’s become an all-too-familiar pattern for a politician who has churned through several iterations of staff on her rise and took office with a team almost entirely new to her.
Just six months in, some of those aides in the Office of the Vice President said they are eyeing other employment opportunities. Others have left already. ...The morale level for current Harris staffers is “rough” and in many ways similar to the failed presidential campaign and her Senate office, according to the former Senate aide."}}
Aides describe Harris as unpredictable and at times demeaning to her staff. She often hung up on her aides, berated them when she didn’t think they were prepared enough for briefings, and had a reputation for churning through interns and lower-level staff.<ref>https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2021/07/14/progressive-brawl-over-antitrust-measures-gets-personal-493575</ref> Some of her former staffers claimed to be suffering from a form of post-traumatic stress after Harris started her ascension to the White House. According to the ''Washington Free Beacon'', “they sought therapy to ‘resolve trauma from the on-the-job abuse’ after Harris was selected as Biden’s running mate in 2020.”<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-harris-staffer-trauma/amp/</ref> After an ''Axios'' hit piece on Kamala,<ref>https://www.axios.com/kamala-harris-office-dysfunction-2024-e2f9a9c0-f391-4c1d-8042-aa4f24a292e3.html</ref> the ''[[New York Post]]'' reported the knives were out for Kamala in the racist and [[misogynist]] Biden White House.<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/07/03/democrats-fear-harris-cant-beat-any-goper-in-2024-including-trump/</ref>
After Biden's disastrous performance in a nationally televised CNN townhall meeting,<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/07/22/joe-biden-becomes-progressively-incoherent-at-cnns-half-empty-townhall-and-its-not-just-a-stutter-1106954/</ref> speculation was rife over Harris invoking the 25th Amendment.<ref>https://www.dickmorris.com/bidens-senility-at-town-hall-will-cause-big-25th-amendment-battle-lunch-alert/</ref>
== Biden's age and his propensity to make more gaffes later in the day ==
== Biden's age and his propensity to make more gaffes later in the day ==