EXCLUSIVE Experts reveal how a bad cold at Joe Biden's age could be DEADLY - and why it really could explain that Presidential Debate performance READ MORE: Biden REFUSES to drop out of Presidential race By Luke Andrews Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 20:46 BST, 28 June 2024 | Updated: 21:10 BST, 28 June 2024 e-mail 67 View comments President Joe Biden 's campaign team is doing damage control following his stammering and confused performance during the first presidential debate broadcasted on CNN . A White House official has explained the 81 year-old's slowed speech, long pauses and raspy voice as the result of 'a cold' that has 'started to hit his stride'.
Many have doubted this, with Trump supporters suggesting it's a mask for more serious degenerative conditions that would make him incapable of the top job. Even Democrats have called for a rethink, with some calling for POTUS to step aside. Now, speaking to DailyMail.
com, experts have revealed whether a cold really could be behind the president's bizarre symptoms. After Biden lost his train of thought at one point and stared ahead blankly, Donald Trump said: 'I really don't know what he just said' Joe Biden and Jill Biden pictured leaving the debate stage last night in Atlanta, Georgia They say that, in fact, a respiratory virus like a cold can cause a number of cognitive symptoms in a person of Biden's age, as well as making him generally weak and severely unwell. Dr Liz Landsverk, a geriatrician in Sa.