Joe Biden’s campaign has sent out a flash survey to Democratic donors via text message, asking them to consider the possible candidacy of current vice president Kamala Harris: “Would you accept Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee?”, reads the message received by phone. Donors will have until midnight to respond.
Biden and gaffes: an unstoppable phenomenon
The Washington Post already in 2019 he dubbed it the ‘Lamborghini of gaffes’ and over the years he himself has often defined himself as a ‘gaffe machine’, but in recent months the slips of Joe Biden have increased alarmingly and have become an almost daily stumbling block for the 81-year-old president as well as a source of ridicule from his political opponents, Donald Trump ahead.
Gaffe during NATO press conference
The last two, sensational, shortly before and during the Press conference at the conclusion of the summit of the BORNthe long-awaited event considered by all analysts to be the test of the commander-in-chief to demonstrate his lucidity. And, instead, presenting Volodymyr Zelensky on the stage of the event for theUkraine he called him Putinexcept to correct himself immediately afterwards by giving as an excuse that his thoughts are always on how to stop the Kremlin leader. So, speaking of his number two Kamala Harrishe said “Vice President Trump” and the tycoon wasted no time in mocking him on social media.
Other recent gaffes
A week ago, still referring to Harris, Biden said he was “proud to be the first black vice president”, when in fact he meant to say he was proud to have appointed the first African-American number two. Then we only have to go back a few months to come across two other notable slips. Speaking at an electoral event in Las Vegas last February, in fact, not only confused Emmanuel Macron with François Mitterrandwho died in 1996, but also called the latter “president of the Germany».
Just two days later, another slip while he was telling the same anecdote about G7 in Cornwall. The 81-year-old Democrat in fact recalled that «after having declared to the leaders gathered at the summit that America is back, the German Helmut Kohl he turned around and said to me: ‘President, what would you do if tomorrow you opened the Times and read that 1,000 people had stormed the parliament?’ At a press conference, less than 24 hours later, he confused the Egyptian president Al-Sisi with the Mexican one, then Lopez Obrador.