Beto O 'Rourke answers Joe Biden's questions about age and fitness: "Who the Hell Cares?

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O 'Rourke used his abruptly more and more common way to dismiss critics and questions regarding Joe Biden's age or mental acuity.

O'Rourke, speaking on NBC News & # 39; Meet the press On Sunday, he "made fun of everything" of the problems of political quarrels, media quarrels or questioning the mental health of the candidates. O & # 39; Rourke and host Chuck Todd then discussed his promise of Thursday's debate to remove the AR-15s from their owners and the compulsory buyout of firearms. But Todd first asked O & # Rourke to react to the memory of his colleague, Julián Castro, and to ask himself if he thought it was a "legitimate debate" of to question Biden's mental aptitude to be president at the end of 70 years.

"No, I do not care about it to be honest with you," Oourre said with a smile. "I was listening to your opening package, and I mean, who the hell cares, right?"

O & # 39; Rourke then urged the media and Americans as a whole to discuss "big things" that interest people rather than sniping. A similar question asked Thursday by CNN about the mental acumen of the former vice-president and returning officer, O. Rourke also rejected the question.

"That will not defeat Donald Trump," replied O & # Rourke. "This will not bring back this deeply divided country again … This type of personal attack, in my opinion, is not what we need at the moment and is insufficient to meet the challenges we are facing. face. "

Speaking at the same forum, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar also repressed Castro's move against Biden. "I thought it was so personal and so useless," she said Thursday after the Houston debate.

On Sunday, O. Rourke outlined what he preferred to talk about in terms of the real problems the Americans were facing.

"Tens of millions of people can not see a doctor In Texas, where I am now, the largest provider of mental health services is the county's prison system – you have 10 years to deal with climate change you have 10 years left to deal with climate change or all is over for all of us. "

O & # 39; Rourke continued, "You have children in cages, families that have been separated, there are really urgent issues that we need to tackle now. The last thing that matters is whoever matters, it's Joe Biden's age or political party struggle on this stage.We must talk about the great things that interest the people of this country. "

O & # 39; Rourke labeled guns such as the AR-15 "terror instruments" and said that the fact that Democratic lawmakers blame him for his "hard" tone during the debate "shows just how much priorities in Washington DC are messed up. "

The former Texas congressman who had narrowly lost the Senate race to incumbent President Ted Cruz in 2018 added details of what was behind his campaign concerns. "What's really horrible, it's a 17-month-old baby who received an AR-15 bullet in the face, like in Odessa, which is horrible, that's 22 people killed in a Walmart. .. innocent of any crime or threat … stalked by their ethnicity. "