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   Joe Biden is pushing back at Republican assertions that he   
   should take a cognitive test to disprove President Donald   
   Trump’s claim that the Democrat isn’t fit for the Oval Office.   
      
   Biden grew testy when CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett asked   
   the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee about the matter   
   in a recent interview.   
      
   “No, I haven’t taken a test? Why the hell would I take a test?”   
   Biden said.   
      
   He then told Barnett: “That’s like saying … before you got on   
   this program, you’re taking a test whether you’re taking cocaine   
   or not. What do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?”   
      
   The former vice president, who is 77, also tried to turn the   
   matter back around on the 74-year-old president in the latest   
   jousting over the two men’s fitness for office.   
      
   “Well, if he can’t figure out the difference between an elephant   
   and a lion, I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about,”   
   Biden said, appearing to refer to Trump’s public discussion   
   about his own clinical examinations that physicians often give   
   older patients to identify early signs of dementia.   
      
   Biden's exchange with Barnett was part of an interview conducted   
   with the National Association of Black Journalists and the   
   National Association of Hispanic Journalists. It was scheduled   
   to air in full on Thursday.   
      
   In a recent interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News, Trump   
   hailed his own mental acuity by referencing his recent   
   examinations. Trump framed his results as a sign of intellectual   
   prowess. He recalled in another Fox News interview that he   
   successfully repeated back to a physician a series of words he’d   
   been given audibly: “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.”   
      
   Trump and his allies have repeatedly raised questions about   
   whether Biden has been administered such an examination.   
      
   Biden told reporters in June that he is “constantly tested” by   
   the rigors of the presidential campaign and said he’s eager to   
   match wits against Trump in fall debates. He repeated those   
   sentiments with Barnett.   
      
   “I’m so forward-looking to have an opportunity to sit with the   
   president or stand with the president and the debates,” Biden   
   said. He later said he was “very willing to let the American   
   public judge my physical, mental — my physical, as well as my   
   mental fitness and to, you know, to make a judgment about who I   
   am.”   
      
   Allies of both Trump and Biden often seize on the other's verbal   
   slips. Both men have provided enough material to generate widely   
   shared video mashups of their mistakes. Biden’s third White   
   House bid has drawn renewed attention on his lifelong struggle   
   as a stutterer.   
      
   Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor of political communication   
   at the University of Pennsylvania, said voters and the media   
   should try to discern whether presidential candidates have the   
   reasoning skills and temperament to handle the job. But she   
   cautioned against using verbal inaccuracies to settle on a   
   conclusion.   
      
   “You don’t always know what that means,” Jamieson said, adding   
   that biases about age can influence how voters and media treat   
   an older candidate's syntax. “But you do know when you have an   
   exchange in real time whether a person can handle the questions   
   and answers and as a result is able to function” in the White   
   House.   
      
   “Some cues don’t really say anything about governance,” Jamieson   
   said. “If you can’t focus, that’s a problem. If you can’t   
   provide a coherent answer, that’s a problem. (But) sometimes   
   what you’re seeing, it may be annoying, but it doesn’t speak to   
   a person’s capacity to govern.”   
      
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