![]() But Biden has also made some comments about race that were either inaccurate or simply awkward.ĭuring an interview with Charlamagne tha God, the host of The Breakfast Club, which is popular with Black listeners, Biden said: "If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black." Biden pivoted to make a false statement that the NAACP had endorsed him in every campaign. Mediaite captured the full sentence by Biden, which showed that after citing the wrong number, he quickly corrected himself: "Now we have over 120 million dead from COVID, I mean, 120,000 dead from COVID." Biden made a similar flub later, saying there were about 200 million covid deaths when he should have said 200,000.īiden uses poor word choice when talking about raceĪs Biden sought the support of Black voters who helped him win the primary, he emphasized his work alongside former President Barack Obama and his support for civil rights legislation. Trump tweeted the clip and wrote: "If I ever said something so mortifyingly stupid, the Fake News Media would come down on me with a vengeance. ![]() In June, Trump tweeted a five-second clip of Biden stating: "Now we have over 120 million dead from COVID." He has botched COVID-19 numbers, for example, saying there were 6,114 "military COVID deaths" - when he meant to say Michigan deaths.īut sometimes the right has gone too far with its criticism of Biden’s stumbles. ![]() He stated that there were millions of gun deaths when he should have said thousands. Many of Biden’s blunders have been about numbers. And, in light of Trump’s illness and the associated questions about his administration’s communication about the president’s health, will this line of attack sway portions of the electorate?īiden’s misstatements about numbers, both real and clipped With all the attention Biden’s detractors give to his errors in speech - some fabricated, some real - the key question is whether these moments are persuasive enough to influence how folks will vote. One deceptively edited video shared on a Trump aide’s personal account showed Biden falling asleep during a TV interview - but the anchor was interviewing someone else entirely.īiden’s supporters punch back with examples of Trump’s own speech, ranging from the head-scratching "covfefe" tweet to inflammatory language about race and falsehoods about Biden policies, voting and COVID-19. But sometimes they stretch the attack into a narrative that never happened. Their strategy has been to portray Biden as an old man unfit to lead. Trump, 74, and conservative media have been quick to mock Biden’s words when he stumbles. He has admitted he sometimes uses awkward phrases and, in his 2017 book " Promise Me, Dad," called himself a "gaffe machine." During the first presidential debate, in fact, some viewers and pundits noted his performance for its lack of verbal missteps. During this campaign, he has flubbed numbers, told tales and mixed up events and locations. What Biden actually said was, "I lost that lady," when the monitor on which the woman was seen asking her question went blank.ĭuring his decades-long career, Biden, who stuttered as a child, has made some notable verbal blunders. Telemundo doesn’t allow someone being interviewed to use a teleprompter. That isn’t what happened, or what Biden said. "Joe Biden caught red handed using a teleprompter," declared a video meme tweeted by Eric Trump, that quoted Biden as saying "I lost that line." ![]() I lost that."Ĭonservatives on social media pounced. The evidence driving this line of attack on the former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee has been a mixture of truths and exaggerations, doctored video and recorded moments lacking context.ĭuring an interview with Telemundo that provided such fodder, Biden responded to a listener who asked him about the Obama-Biden record on deportations.īiden promised to freeze deportations for the first 100 days and only deport people who committed a felony while in the U.S.īiden, 77, can then be heard saying, "OK. Before news of President Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 test upended the election cycle with a host of unknowns, one of his campaign’s leading narratives was that of Joe Biden as a clumsy, aging orator who frequently flubs the facts.
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