'We'll Be A Team': Trump Calls On Biden To Take Cognitive Test As More Democrats Demand The President Withdraw From Race

Over the past week, President Joe Biden has been fighting for his political career as elected Democrats have begun to call on the president to withdraw from the race in droves after his disastrous debate performance and inability to prove his ability to run a successful re-election campaign during his interview with George Stephanopoulos last week and his press conference on Thursday. In response to these developments, 45th President Donald Trump called on Biden to take a cognitive test to prove to the American public that he has what it takes to stay in the race.

"Joe should immediately take a Cognitive Test, and I will go with him, and take one also," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "For the first time we'll be a team, and do it for the good of the Country….And from now on, all Presidential candidates should be mandated to take a Cognitive Test and Aptitude Test, regardless of their age!!!"

Trump isn't the only one who has called on the 81-year-old Democrat to take a cognitive test. Rep. Adam Smith (D-CA) has called on both candidates to take a test, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) said on Tuesday that she doesn't think it "would hurt" Biden to take the exam. 

President Biden has repeatedly denied taking a cognitive test to prove his mental fitness, telling George Stephanopoulos last week that he gets "a full neurological test every day." The president explained to the press on Thursday that his doctors would notify him if they felt that he needed to take a cognitive exam. Biden's comments come after it was revealed that a Parkinson's expert, Dr. Kevin Cannard, visited the White House residence clinic on multiple occasions and met with the president's physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, on at least one occasion. 

Biden's repeated lapses in recent days as well as the revelation of a Parkinson's expert visiting the White House prompted NBC News to interview Parkinson's specialist Dr. Tom Pitts who pointed out the various physical and mental signs of the neurological disease that the president exhibits. 

"I see him 20 times a day in clinic. I mean, it's ironic because he has these classic features of neurological degeneration. Word finding difficulties and that's not 'Oh, I can't find the word,' that's from degeneration from the word retrieval area," Dr. Pitts explained, adding that the president's stutter has no impact on his word retrieval.

The expert stated that the president has multiple other symptoms of Parkinson's including his monotone voice, loss of arm swing, end block turning, and other "hallmarks" of the condition. "I could have diagnosed him from across the mall," the doctor explained. When asked about the way the president walks, Dr. Pitts emphasized that a shuffling gate is characteristic of someone suffering from the neurological disease.

"It's a hallmark. Shuffling gate, we call that. So little steps. Loss of arm swing from the rigidity. Where we walk with a nice cadence, he doesn't really swing his arms. And end block turning, meaning he kind of pivots around his foot," he said. When a reporter attempted to pushback on the doctor's diagnosis of Biden, the specialist explaiend that Biden's not a "hard case."

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