President Biden mistakenly referred to himself as the “first black woman to serve with a black president,” marking another verbal misstep as he works to assure voters of his capability to lead.
During an interview on Thursday with Philadelphia’s WURD black radio station, part of his Independence Day media appearances, the 81-year-old president fumbled his words while recalling his tenure as Vice President under Barack Obama and his selection of Kamala Harris.
“By the way, I’m proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman, to serve with a black president,” he told host Andrea Lawful-Sanders.
In the same interview, Biden highlighted his achievements, including appointing the first black woman, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to the Supreme Court, and selecting the first black woman as vice president.
However, this gaffe was just one of several Biden made during the interview, which aimed to reassure voters after his poor debate performance. At one point, he oddly claimed to be the “first president that got elected statewide in the state of Delaware, when I was a kid.”
Additionally, Biden compared his understanding of the black community’s struggle for representation to his own belief that Catholics couldn’t be president before John F. Kennedy’s election over six decades ago.
Biden referenced this belief while discussing the significance of Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination to “a young girl who is in school and having trouble.” He shared, “I looked at John Kennedy and said, ‘Well, he — John — he got elected. Why can’t I get elected?’ People need things to look up to.”
These repeated slip-ups have intensified concerns about the president’s age, especially following his disastrous debate with former President Trump last week.
In response, Ammar Moussa, a spokesperson for Biden’s re-election campaign, criticized the media for emphasizing Biden’s recent blunders. “This is absurd,” Moussa tweeted. “It was abundantly clear what the president meant. This would be considered a perfectly normal speech pattern for any other person in America, and has certainly been normal for Joe Biden for his entire career. What are we even doing anymore?”
{Dov T. Heller – Matzav.com}