There are headlines from RW newspapers saying that Joe Biden

[Ilsa]

gaffed and said he was running for the US Senate. Did he say that?

I'm freaking out.

[jimfields33]

1. He did

But remember he’s been running for Senator for over 40 years. It’s bound to happen naturally from time to time. Nothing to worry about.

[lapfog_1]

4. taken out of context

the complete statement (which got cut off by cheers) was "When I started out in national politics..."

[USALiberal]

35. So this is a fake video from Reuters......

[lunasun]

46. Someone posted a much longer video of it below . He did say it and he was not mentioning his

senate years . Didn’t seem out of context .
I wonder where everyone here @ du is getting that same comeback line about it was taken out of context and he was referring to his senate campaigns

TBH I would have expected here some to say deep fake from Sanders camp or maybe that is to come now since the long version of his speech is out now showing there was no talk about his senate campaigns

Why not just say it was a mistake he made ?
This is bad to not just get over it and make up stuff to cover a gaffe about a favored candidate

I doubt the fake excuse cover is coming out of the Biden campaign

[USALiberal]

49. Good point. nt

[jimfields33]

10. Why Bernie gets blamed?

[George II]

21. The video was put out by Shaun King. Here's his OWN twitter profile and the tweet in question.

Bernie gets blamed because he's a surrogate of Sanders. That's how it works. Sanders should disavow stuff like this but he never does, he pleads innocent, "how do we know it was a Sanders supporter?"

Profile:

Shaun King @shaunking, Founder @TheNorthStar & @RealJusticePAC, @FlipTheSenate & @TheActionPAC, Host of @TheBreakdown
Podcast. Husband. Father of 5. Surrogate for @BernieSanders

Link to tweet

[secondwind]

14. What if he is our nominee? VOTE BLUE

no matter who!!!

[demgrrrll]

30. I have never voted for a republican in my life. I am frustrated by his subordinates. He needs to

take control and run a responsible campaign. I don't think he will be the nominee so I meant what I said in that context.

[RandiFan1290]

24. When he is the nominee

You will

[George II]

27. Shaun King, a prominent Sanders surrogate edited that video to make it look bad.

Link to tweet

[thesquanderer]

56. Okay, I'll bite... Where's the version that doesn't look bad?

I think it's overblown, it's kinda joe being joe, but I don't think editing is the issue.

[melman]

59. It doesn't exist

Original Reuters video here.

[melman]

60. No he didn't

Original Reuters video here.

[jimfields33]

17. Please. Read my reply.

[jimfields33]

18. You signed up 5 hours ago.

Good grief go bother someone else.

[lunasun]

47. Hey he is on a roll all over the place in 5 hours . There seem to be a lot of recent Olympian grade

posters on du lately

[jimfields33]

57. He also has a hide already. Record? Lol

[Squinch]

2. Apparently yes, but I don't get where this is a big deal. We all sometimes have

slips of the tongue. And he was in the Senate from 1973 to 2009. That's a lot of Senate elections.

[MoonlitKnight]

3. In other news

Water is wet.

[CentralMass]

5. It a long campaign with a lot of speeches.

[demgrrrll]

8. Wrong. Look it up. He was recounting his history.

[CentralMass]

19. My comment was meant to be a generous one. However since you snapped

at md i just watched it znd i dont buy tbe ouf of context explanation.

[demgrrrll]

23. I understand. Just tired of the Bernie Bros doxxing people and doing things like this.

He is responsible for his subordinates. The buck does stop with him.

[CentralMass]

31. I like Joe but I do think that was a slip however I'm not piling on.

It is a long campaign flying all over the country.

[lunasun]

53. So your post # 8 saying that Wrong. Look it up. He was recounting his history. wasn't real

but you are just mad that a Bernie person posted this on twitter so that is why you posted that comment ? Your post #23
I don’t get it

[mainstreetonce]

7. It is taken out of context

He tried to explain how if you want votes,you have to ask like when he asked for votes when he introduced himself when running for Senate.
He didn't make the association clearly enough,but he had just referred to running for president.

[Squinch]

11. Thanks. I didn't know this. I just saw the very understandable slip of the tongue

and didn't look any further because it didn't faze me at all.

[uponit7771]

9. Yep, its true but compared to "oranges" of the investigation who cares

[braddy]

15. Where is the video?

[Hoyt]

25. There's a thread yesterday where it was posted, and clearly edited to misrepresent the facts.

[BusyBeingBest]

34. King posted a longer (3-minute) clip and it wasn't misleadingly edited.

If I were a Biden fan, I wouldn't worry too much about it, he makes a lot of verbal slip-ups, it's not that big a deal.

[USALiberal]

36. Here..........

[BusyBeingBest]

37. Longer clip here, for context:

Link to tweet

[Hoyt]

43. Well, he was talking a good bit about Senators, so I'm not going to commit him to a nursing home yet

[brush]

16. Not a huge deal. Obama once said there are 57 states.

[BusyBeingBest]

28. Yeah, Repubs still pretend Obama thinks there are 57 states.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. He was telling of a past event and using the present tense for his past words

[juxtaposed]

58. pretzel logic

[jalan48]

22. A video and brief article about the event

A video of Mr Biden’s speech shared widely on social media showed him saying: “My name is Joe Biden. I’m a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate. Look me over, if you like what you see, help out. If not, vote for the other Biden.”


Mr Biden, 77, has made a series of confusing and controversial statements during a presidential campaign to date that has seen his poll ratings tumble.

Earlier this month, he mistakenly referred to New Hampshire as Nevada on the night of the state’s first-in-the-nation primary.




https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/joe-biden-speech-senate-south-carolina-democratic-primary-video-election-2020-a9356366.html

[BusyBeingBest]

26. He did say it, and I watched the whole clip, and it wasn't taken out of context.

He just fucked up. How damaging depends on how seriously you take verbal fuckups. Since Biden does it A LOT, it probably won't hurt him, but of course the GOP is going to paint him as senile--but they were going to anyway.

[apcalc]

29. BFD! I don't care. Slip of the tongue.

He could say” whatever”. I just don’t care.

[USALiberal]

39. At some point you should care! nt

[USALiberal]

32. Here is video..........

[braddy]

33. Who is the "other Biden" he says to vote for in the video?

[BusyBeingBest]

38. He obviously meant to say "The other guy" because he's said that before.

[ibegurpard]

41. Pretty sure he meant his wife Jill

kind of a lame joke acknowledging what an asset she is to him. the "running for senate" thing was a misstatement that's pretty easy to make when you've been running for Senate your entire adult life. This is a nothingburger.

[evertonfc]

40. man, I miss Bill and Barack. Youth and hope

[Peacetrain]

42. You see... that is no big deal to me.. The one thing VP Joe can be counted on is to

trip over his words..part of its is due to his stuttering history. and part of it is what Joe does... Not a big deal to me..

[USALiberal]

44. I imagine Trump supporters say the same thing about Trump. nt

[Peacetrain]

45. I am sure they do..

[ibegurpard]

50. tripping over your words

is hardly the equivalent of mocking disabled people

[uponit7771]

52. +1, makes him more likeable

[Gothmog]

48. NO-Biden was telling a story about the time he ran for Senate, and was quoting himself

Link to tweet

[zackymilly]

51. Freaking out? I'd rather have Joe with his gaffes than Bernie with his Socialism. n/t

[uponit7771]

54. +1, Sanders 3 month swing state numbers vs Trump suck, socialism doesn't help

[brutus smith]

55. Could you imagine the response if Sanders said this?

[W_HAMILTON]

61. Sanders did make a similar gaffe -- and it's nowhere to be found, so your premise is faulty.

Link to tweet

He was telling people in Nevada to turn out and vote in the Iowa caucuses, which had already been held...

I supposed anti-Sanders people could rail against minor gaffes like this, but there is far more worrisome baggage out there of his to go after...