This morning CNN challenged Joe Biden on something he’s been saying continually on the campaign trail and in the debate this week, that he was arrested in South Africa when visiting Nelson Mandela:
Joe Biden acknowledged that he wasn’t arrested in South Africa during a visit to the country in the 1970s despite recently claiming that he had been.
“I wasn’t arrested, I was stopped. I was not able to move where I wanted to go,” he told @JohnBerman.https://t.co/zDFjiJ8oli pic.twitter.com/D5pPLLCpgx— New Day (@NewDay) February 28, 2020
“Joe Biden acknowledged that he wasn’t arrested in South Africa during a visit to the country in the 1970s despite recently claiming that he had been. “I wasn’t arrested, I was stopped. I was not able to move where I wanted to go,” he told New Day.”
Turns out Joe wasn’t arrested. He was ‘stopped’. He claims that’s what he meant to say, of course.
I would say Joe is lying, but honestly he mixes us his statements and facts all the time now. Take this one for instance, which just happened today:
Biden said “Well, I’m looking forward to appointing the first African American woman to the United States Senate.” Of course we know what he meant to say because he got it right during the debate, that he wants to appoint the first African American woman to the Supreme Court.
Biden has really lost a lot of support since last year and I suspect it’s in part because people simply don’t know if he’s really all there, mentally speaking, because he gets things wrong all the time. Van Jones said this morning that Biden’s campaign is broke and blames it on a ‘lack of enthusiasm:
Jones make the point that Biden, a two-term vice President and ‘Obama’s guy’, should be sucking in money from Democrats, both grassroots and big donors. But he’s broke. Jones believes that short of a miracle tomorrow night where Biden does something extraordinary, his campaign is probably done.