An independent panel should evaluate the health of presidential candidates

President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign ended on the afternoon of 21 July 2024, not with a bang but a whimper: he posted a brief letter on X (formerly Twitter) announcing he would stand down.1 Even before his disastrous performance in the debate against Donald Trump on 27 June 2024, during which he sometimes seemed confused and forgetful, public polling showed that voters were concerned about his age—he is 81 years old—and his fitness. In a September 2023 poll, 57% of respondents said Biden’s age would “severely limit his ability to do the job” if he were re-elected in 2024.2With Biden out of the race, attention has turned to Trump, who, at 78, is by far the oldest presidential nominee in US history, a record previously held by Ronald Reagan, who took office at the age of 69. While his own debate stumbles were less scrutinized, Trump often rambled incoherently…
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