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    Biden Verbally Fumbles, Twice, During Campaign Trip in Florida

    By Peter Baker,

    2022-11-02
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    President Joe Biden delivers remarks during an event on Social Security spending and medicare inside the OB Johnson Park/Community Center in Hallandale Beach, Fla., on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)

    MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — President Joe Biden verbally fumbled during a campaign swing in Florida on Tuesday, confusing the U.S. war in Iraq with the Russian war in Ukraine, and then he fumbled again while he tried to correct himself, misstating how his son Beau died in 2015.

    In defending his record on inflation, Biden was trying to blame rising costs on President Vladimir Putin of Russia for his invasion of Ukraine, which has roiled international energy markets. It’s a point that he makes regularly in public speeches, but this time he mixed up his geography and history.

    “Inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq and the impact on oil and what Russia is doing,” Biden told a crowd during a speech at O.B. Johnson Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida, before heading to Miami Gardens for an evening campaign rally with Democratic candidates. He quickly caught his own mistake. “Excuse me,” he said, “the war in Ukraine.”

    But as he tried to explain how he mixed up the two wars, he told the audience, “I think of Iraq because that’s where my son died.” In fact, Beau Biden, a military lawyer in the Delaware Army National Guard, served for a year in Iraq. He returned home in 2009 and died of brain cancer in the United States in 2015.

    Biden, who has made the same mistake before, once again sought to correct himself. “Because, he died,” he said, apparently referring to his belief that Beau’s cancer could have been caused by his service in Iraq, where he may have been exposed to toxic burn pits.

    Biden, who at 79 is the oldest president in U.S. history, has a long record of gaffes dating back to when he was a young man. But his misstatements have become more pronounced, and more noticed, now that he has the spotlight of the presidency constantly on him. While Biden has said he intends to run for a second term, his age ranked at the top of the list for Democratic voters who told pollsters that they want the party to find an alternative, according to a survey by New York Times and Siena College this summer.

    This article originally appeared in The New York Times .

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    President Joe Biden delivers remarks during an event on Social Security spending and medicare inside the OB Johnson Park/Community Center in Hallandale Beach, Fla., on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)
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    SuzanE
    2022-11-10
    He has had a speech impediment, stuttering, his whole life... shame on this rag, should know better!
    Sue Davis Shiffer
    2022-11-06
    He may have a few issues with speech as most do that have had a speech impediment such as his stuttering. One thing he’s not doing is telling a lie every time he opens his mouth like President Trump.As a Republican on the edge I have not seen anything good the Republicans running have put forward.They are not offering any fix on the economy, or crime.Why can we not have Republicans again that have at least some integrity & decency.Instead we just have a group acting as though they are in a cult.🥲
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