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"Joe Biden is going to be just fine," Harris said, when asked
about concerns that Biden is too old to run again.
Biden, who will turn 81 in November and would be 82 at the start
of a prospective second four-year term in January 2025, faces
skeptical American voters who will decide whether to elect the
Democrat for another four years in November 2024.
His leading opponent, Republican Donald Trump, is 77; American
voters say they'd like to see younger candidates for president.
Some Republican presidential candidates, including former South
Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, have said a vote for Biden would
end up being a vote for Harris, who had a 40% approval rating in
an average of polls compiled by politics website Five Thirty
Eight.
Harris, on a trip to an Asian leaders summit meeting in Jakarta,
told CBS News, when asked if she was prepared to take over the
presidency, "Yes, I am, if necessary."
"But Joe Biden is going to be fine. Let me tell you something: I
work with Joe Biden every day," the vice president said.
Harris also rejected criticism by Republicans who said electing
her would be risky.
"They feel the need to attack because they're scared that we
will win based on the merit of the work that Joe Biden and I,
and our administration has done," she said.
(Reporting by Steve Holland; Editing by Heather Timmons and
Jonathan Oatis)
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