Credit: <\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\nNews of the precautions emerged as the 80-year-old became the first president in modern history to join a picket line on Tuesday, as he spoke to striking workers protesting low pay in the car manufacturing industry.<\/p>\n
In what historians called an \u201cabsolutely unprecedented\u201d move, Biden told members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) trade union in suburban Detroit to \u201cstick with it\u201d and hold out for \u201ca significant raise and other benefits\u201d.<\/p>\n
The industrial action, and battle for union support, have become political flashpoints in the 2024 campaign, which has also seen questions raised over Biden\u2019s fitness for re-election come to the fore in recent months.<\/p>\n
In June, Biden tripped and fell over a sandbag at the US Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado.<\/p>\n
The moment was quickly seized on by his Republican rivals. Former president Donald Trump describing the fall as \u201csad\u201d and said it \u201chappened pretty badly\u201d.<\/p>\n
Senior Democrats are understood to have been frustrated with Biden\u2019s team after the incident, and are also said to be concerned that he often looks confused over which way to exit following a speech.<\/p>\n
Steps being taken by his team to prevent a repeat include enlisting the help of a physical therapist, Axios reported.<\/p>\n
Biden, who is the oldest president in US history, has been doing exercises since November 2021 to help improve his balance after he was diagnosed with \u201ca combination of significant spinal arthritis\u201d and \u201cmild post-fracture foot arthritis\u201d by his doctor.<\/p>\n
Biden spends several mornings with physical therapist Drew Contreras, who also worked with former president Barack Obama.<\/p>\n
His doctor has also recommended exercises for balance called \u201cproprioceptive maintenance manoeuvres\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Democrat leader has also been wearing tennis shoes to avoid slipping, as well as using the short staircase on Air Force One instead of the sometimes-wobbly 18ft staircase to the plane\u2019s upper door.<\/p>\n
The Axios report came after the White House was forced to correct Biden\u2019s transcript when he confused \u201cmillion\u201d for \u201cbillion\u201d and stumbled over a four letter acronym on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Biden announced the government was investing $US40 billion ($62 billion) in the Pacific Islands Infrastructure Initiative \u2013 instead of $US40 million, according to the official transcript.<\/p>\n
He then appeared to struggle to pronounce the acronym PIII, saying: \u201cWe call it the PG… PI… anyway, it doesn\u2019t matter what we call it, but that\u2019s what it is. I was going to get back to acronyms, and I\u2019m going to … I\u2019m going to … withstand not doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
A poll published by the Wall Street Journal earlier this month found 73 per cent of Americans, including two-thirds of Democrats, think Biden is too old to run again in next November\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told Axios that the president\u2019s physical therapy sessions are not \u201cnew\u201d and were \u201cproactively and transparently disclosed in a 2021 report from the president\u2019s doctor and again this year\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis article fits an unfortunate pattern of media attempting to sensationalise something that has long been public, rather than covering the president\u2019s very real achievements for hardworking Americans,\u201d Bates added.<\/p>\n
Biden\u2019s appearance on the picket line on Tuesday came a day before Trump, the 77-year-old Republican front-runner for president, will speak to auto workers in Michigan.<\/p>\n
The rare back-to-back events highlight the importance of union support in the 2024 presidential election, even though their members represent a tiny fraction of US workers.<\/p>\n
The UAW strike is directed at three Detroit-based manufacturers: Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep and Peugeot. The union is demanding a 40 per cent pay rise for its members in the next four years.<\/p>\n
Biden has long framed himself as the most pro-union president in American history.<\/p>\n
Dressed in a baseball cap and sweater, he told workers in Detroit: \u201cUnions built the middle class. It\u2019s a fact \u2013 so let\u2019s keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Erik Loomis, a professor at the University of Rhode Island and an expert on US labour history, said the event was \u201cabsolutely unprecedented\u201d.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cNo president has ever walked a picket line before,\u201d because they historically \u201csaw themselves more as mediators\u201d.<\/p>\n
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