White House rules out cognitive test for Biden’s upcoming physical, saying he’s ‘sharp’

President Joe Biden’s annual doctor’s physical is coming up soon, but it won’t include a cognitive test for the 81-year-old democrat seeking a second term.

As Fox News reports, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday the mental acuity exam isn’t necessary, as determined by Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor.

Rather, Jean-Pierre said the doctor believes Biden proves his cognitive ability “every day (in) how he operates and how he thinks,” the Fox reported stated.

The reporters’ questions about a cognitive test for Biden came in wake of special counsel Robert Hur’s report citing Biden’s “poor memory” and calling him a “well-meaning elderly man” who couldn’t be successfully prosecuted in the classified documents case because of his mental decline.

Since Hur’s report was released last week, subsequent polls have shown 86% of Americans believe Biden is too old to serve another term. This, according to an ABC/Ipsos released Sunday. The same survey found 73% of Democrats who responded also deemed Biden too old for four more years in office, when he would turn age 86.

Despite all this, Jean-Pierre was steadfast in sticking with the determination Dr. O’Connor to dispense with a cognitive test for Biden ahead of the upcoming election on Nov. 5. The same physician also declined to give Biden a mental acuity test during last year’s exam.

Said Jean-Pierre: “I’m just gonna say what Dr. O’Connor said to me about a year ago when (Biden’s physical) was released: ‘The president proves every day (in) how he operates and how he thinks, by dealing with world leaders, by making difficult decisions on behalf of the American people — whether it’s domestic or it’s national security.’ That is how Dr. O’Connor sees it, and that is how I’m going to leave it.”