Biden Dismisses Suggestions Of His Cognitive Decline, Says He Could’ve Beaten Trump During ‘The View’ Interview

Alessio AtriaMay 9, 2025, 5:35 pmNews >

Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, appeared on The View to discuss Kamala Harris’ future and his rivalry with Donald Trump, and they rebuffed suggestions of Biden’s cognitive decline in 2024.

During a joint interview on the talk show on May 8, Biden was asked what Harris plans to do next. He stated he last spoke to her on May 7 and that they speak to each other frequently. He also mentioned that she has “a difficult decision to make about what she’s going to do. I hope she stays fully engaged. I think she’s first-rate, but we have a lot of really good candidates as well. So I’m optimistic – I’m not pessimistic – about the future.”

Last week, it was revealed that Biden’s campaign team chose not to have him take a cognitive test in February 2024 because they feared it would raise more questions about his age.

During the interview, Whoopi Goldberg asked Biden why Trump is “so fixated” on him and “blaming [him] for everything.”

“I beat him,” the former president stated in response.

He also reiterated his claim that he could have beaten Trump if he had stayed in the 2024 presidential election.

Biden claimed in the interview that the allegations that he faced a cognitive decline last year “were wrong” and that there is “nothing to sustain that.”

Jill also spoke up to dispute the reports in new books written by journalists who claimed that her husband experienced a cognitive decline during his final year as president.

Later on in the interview, Biden mentioned that he “would offer specific evidence at a fair time exactly what I got done when I supposedly lost my cognitive capability, and secondly, what we did after we got out of the race.

“I said when I got out of the race, I would still be president. I think I did a pretty damn good job the last six months.”

During a recent interview with the BBC, Biden once more affirmed his decision to drop out of last year’s election when he did. He claimed that he did not “think it would’ve mattered” if he had exited sooner.