Harris said Biden was fully fit to continue in office, despite numerous documented encounters over the past year.

Vice President Harris said President Biden is fully fit to finish his term and serve another, despite his performance in debates and interviews, after having more than 80 publicly documented encounters over the past year, a Fox News Digital investigation has found.

From July 18, 2023, to July 17, 2024, Harris, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee since Biden stepped down, shared at least 25 meetings, eight lunches and 46 events with the president, and they traveled together twice. That makes Harris one of the people best placed to speak to the president’s mental acuity.

Those dozens of meetings are also just the ones that appear on public calendars. Not everything the president or vice president does is listed, such as time spent in the Situation Room, where Biden and Harris sit in on briefings together. They likely would have done so after the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel, for example.

After Biden’s faltering and stalled performance in the debate against former President Trump in Atlanta last June, Harris sat down with CNN’s Anderson Cooper to try to hold the line for the commander in chief.

“Yes, it was a slow start, but it was a strong finish. And what became very clear throughout the night is that Joe Biden is fighting for the American people on substance, on policy, on performance. Joe Biden is extraordinarily strong,” Harris said last month. “I’m not going to spend all night with you talking about the last 90 minutes when I’ve watched the performance of the last 3.5 years.”

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President Biden and Vice President Harris (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images/File)

Earlier this year, Harris denounced special counsel Robert Hur’s report that described Biden as a “well-meaning older man with a bad memory” as a “gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate” criticism. But the June 27 debate publicly exposed Biden’s mental health, sending vulnerable congressional Democrats and the donor class into a downward spiral over the viability of the aging president’s candidacy.

Biden, who had been self-isolating due to a reported case of COVID-19, announced on July 21 via a letter posted on X that he would no longer seek a second term and endorsed Harris as his presidential candidate.

Harris, however, spent months before the debate defending Biden’s mental competence after a series of public gaffes and stumbles.

In November, at The New York Times Dealbook Summit, Harris was confronted about how former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Biden was confused and needed cue cards during debt negotiations.

“I would say age is more than a chronological fact. I spend a lot of time with our president, whether it’s in the Oval Office or in the Situation Room and other places. And I can tell you, as I just mentioned, he’s not only an authority in rooms around the world, but he’s also an authority in the Oval Office, in his meetings with members of Congress, with industry leaders, and with community leaders,” Harris responded.

Vice President Harris and President Biden attend a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House on June 10, 2024. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

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“There’s only one person sitting behind the Resolute desk,” she added. “I’m not lying… I’m telling… but I’m telling you a fact.”

The Justice Department report released in February by Hur found that Biden “willfully” withheld and disclosed classified information to a ghostwriter, but did not recommend criminal charges. Hur said Biden displayed “limited faculties” and described his memory as “significantly limited” during interviews with the special counsel’s office, noting that the president could not recall “even within several years” the death of his son, Beau.

At a White House event to discuss gun violence, Harris insisted that “the way the president’s behavior has been described in this report could not be more factually inaccurate and clearly politically motivated, gratuitously so,” adding that “when it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like this, we should expect a higher level of integrity than we’ve seen.”

President Biden delivers remarks on the assassination attempt on former President Trump at the White House on July 14, 2024. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

That’s when Harris described the “countless hours” she spent with Biden, the secretaries of defense and state and intelligence community leaders after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists.

“The president was on the front lines and in control,” Harris told reporters in February, “asking questions and demanding that the American military and intelligence community and the diplomatic community determine how many people were dead, how many were Americans, how many hostages, whether the situation was stable.”

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“He was on the front lines of it all, coordinating and directing the leaders who are in charge of America’s national security, not to mention our allies around the world for days and now months,” she said.

Fox News’ Callie Cassick and Kevin Ferris contributed to this report.