Ronald Reagan's daughter suggests cognitive tests are a 'good idea': 'We know about what age can do'

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Ronald Reagan's daughter, Patti Davis, weighed in on the age issue at the forefront of the 2024 election on Sunday and said presidential candidates probably should face cognitive tests while running for office.

Before President Biden was elected, Reagan was the oldest person to be elected president, at the age of 69.

"Now, obviously, the president is in his 80s, former President Trump, the frontrunner, is in his late 70s. Do you think there should be cognitive tests for people running for the highest office in the land?" NBC Host Kristen Welker asked.

"Probably, yeah. And just what we know about what age can do, it doesn’t always do that, but it would probably be a good idea. Yeah I know, my father was 77 when he left office after two terms, and it seems so young now, doesn’t it?" Davis responded.

Asked if it felt like he was old at the time, Davis said he was not someone who was fractured in age.

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"I don’t think it did because it was ’87, I believe, when he stood in front of the Berlin Wall and said ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.’ So that was not someone who was fractured in age. I mean yes, I probably thought he was old because he was my father and we think that about our parents, but not in the way that we are talking about now," she continued during the media