Elderly Americans weigh in on Biden 2024: ‘Not sure’

Not even a jury of President Biden’s peers can make up their minds.

Octogenarians are divided about the commander-in-chief’s decision to seek a second term, with some accusing the 80-year-old’s naysayers’ of “ageism” — while others admitted they were “not sure” he’s up to the job.

The compilation of brief interviews with elderly Americans was released by the BBC Tuesday, hours after Biden formally announced that he would run for re-election in 2024.

Biden, who turned 80 on Nov. 20 of last year, is the oldest man to serve as president. Though doctors insist the chief executive is “fit for duty,” a series of gaffes and stumbles have led critics to demand he give up the Oval Office — or at least take a cognitive exam to prove he’s still got it.

One supporter, however, said she was frustrated by the constant debate over the president’s age.

“It’s a question that honestly irritates me,” said Catharine Stimpson, 86, a feminist scholar and dean emerita at NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science.

“The satire about him and the sneering at him is ageism,” added Stimpson, speaking in Washington Square Park.

“Some people at 60 should go nowhere near political power,” she sniped.

Larry Kerr, 80, also questioned whether a younger candidate would have a positive effect on the country.

“What do they want to do? A 21-year-old [president]? They wanna get a Gen Z-er?” he scoffed.

Even so, Kerr admitted that while he’s “pretty sharp,” he is not sure he could run the United States in his ninth decade of life.

“I wasn’t brought up as a politician to know how to do these things,” he admitted. “So I’m not sure, to be honest with you.”

“[Biden] seems fine – alert, astute,” Jessica Kerr, 78, chimed in.

Another park-goer, David, 85, said age was not important compared to how well Biden “could do the job.”

“If you’re doing the job well, and if you can get this country together … I think if his health allows it, that’s fine,” he reasoned.

In Washington, however, Gail Lowe said that “it would be nice to get some of the younger [politicians]” in office — by which she meant “middle-aged people.”

“Not real young, but not in their eighties.”

If Biden wins a second term in 2024 and serves all four years, he will leave office on Jan. 20, 2029 — at the age of 86.

After Biden, the oldest presidents based on their age at the time of departing the White House were Ronald Reagan, then 77; Donald Trump, then 74; and Dwight D. Eisenhower, then 70.

As he gears up for the 2024 election cycle, however, Biden is under fire after remarks he made about an older candidate over 50 years ago.

“He’s lost that old twinkle in his eye he used to have,” Biden, then a 29-year-old first-time Senate candidate, told the Delaware Evening Journal of his opponent Cale Boggs, 63.

Biden ultimately unseated the incumbent Republican after spending much of his campaign bashing him as a “dear old Dad” figure with no grasp on modern American life.