On Saturday, Biden suggested that he was vice-president last year, when he told reporters that the victims of the 2018 Parkland shooting “came up to see me when I was vice-president”
Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images It’s been a big weekend in Iowa, where 22 Democratic candidates assembled at the “Wing Ding” dinner in Clear Lake to demand bipartisan gun control before driving down to the Iowa State Fair for retail politics and the eating of stick food.
Despite his strong polling lead in Iowa and on the national level, some local party figures expressed concern this weekend about Biden’s on-stage performance and the notion of his electability. “He isn’t as compelling verbally,” the Madison County party chairman told the Washington Post. “There is starting to be a real fear that he cannot hold his own in the debate against Donald Trump.
The former veep didn’t exactly dispel those fears in his trip through Iowa. It began with a remark at a town hall hosted by the Asian & Latino Coalition in Des Moines, where Biden wanted to dispel the “notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.” He corrected himself immediately, but the gaffe was out.
On Saturday, Biden insinuated that he was vice-president last year, when he told reporters that the victims of the 2018 Parkland shooting “came up to see me when I was vice-president” and that lawmakers were “basically cowering, not wanting to see them.” The New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg claimed that it was a comment he repeated twice yesterday.
For Democrats concerned with Biden’s propensity to flub on camera, the next few months will be a testing ground to see if he can manage not to undermine himself on a smaller debate stage in September and in speeches around the country. “Everybody else is out there doing a heavy schedule and he’s not,” Adam Jentleson, a former staffer for Harry Reid, told Politico, criticizing Biden’s light schedule up to this point.
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