Ronald Reagan’s daughter: Cognitive tests for president would ‘probably be a good idea’
The daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, who was the oldest president ever elected when he assumed office, on Sunday endorsed the idea of cognitive tests for presidential candidates.
The daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, who was the oldest president ever elected when he assumed office, on Sunday endorsed the idea of cognitive tests for presidential candidates.
“Probably, yeah,” Patti Davis told NBC News' “Meet the Press” in response to a question about whether there should be cognitive tests for presidential candidates.
She added, “Just what we know about what age can do — it doesn’t always do that — but it would probably be a good idea.”
When Reagan was elected in 1980, he was 69 and set the record for being the oldest president ever elected.
Since then, former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden have each broken that record, with Trump being elected in 2016 at 70 and Biden being elected in 2020 at 78.
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