Democratic leadership contender Joe Biden left voters bewildered yesterday as he told them he was running for the Senate and if they didn’t like him they should ‘vote for the other Biden’.
The former vice president, 77, sparked fresh concerns over his mental capacity as he addressed a crowd in South Carolina and appeared to forget which campaign he was running in.
He said: ‘My name’s Joe Biden and 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.’
A clip of his latest gaffe was posted on Twitter by activist Shaun King, who wrote: ‘This is so sad.’
He added: ‘I honestly wish he would’ve retired & not subjected himself to the rigors of this campaign.’
Joe Biden left voters bewildered yesterday as he told them he was running for the Senate and if they didn’t like him they should ‘vote for the other Biden.’
Joe Biden has made a string of gaffes during the democratic leadership campaign
Other twitter users agreed with one saying: ‘His cognitive decline has been on display throughout this campaign. It is sad.’
Another said: ‘Biden’s brain is complete pudding at this point. He’s barely coherent half the time.’
It is the latest in a string of gaffes by Biden in the past few months.
Last week Biden mistakenly described his late son Beau Biden as a former United States Attorney General during a town hall event when in fact he was Attorney General of Delaware.
President Donald Trump took a swipe at Biden on Twitter saying Saturday: ‘In all fairness Biden has no idea what he’s saying or where he is most of the time.
‘When will someone close to him finally say enough is enough? It’s not right anymore.’
Earlier this month he bungled a reference to which states had already voted saying ‘it is important that Iowa and Nevada have spoken’ when he should have said Iowa and New Hampshire.
While campaigning in Iowa in September, Biden put the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in the 1970s.
He also mixed up the timeline around the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in February of 2018, saying said he was in office at the time when he’d already left the White House.
And in the second presidential debate, he told viewers a number but forgot to tell them they were supposed to send a text to it.
In September he was also called out for getting numerous details wrong when awarding a Navy war hero the Silver Star. He got the soldier’s rank and military branch wrong, along with the type of medal involved, the location and timeframe of the crucial moment, and the act of bravery that he was rewarding.
Joe Biden, right, with his late son Beau, who he wrongly said was US Attorney General
Donald Trump slammed Biden’s gaffe about his son on Twitter claiming ‘enough is ‘enough’
Some have suggested his boyhood stutter might be to blame for his tendency to get his words mixed up.
But Biden has said: ‘I’ve always attributed that to being tired and not to the stutter.’
In December Biden made a gaffe during his ‘No Malarkey’ bus tour through Iowa when he called a Marine Corps veteran ‘fat.’
Merle Gorman, 83 , quizzed him about his involvement in Ukraine and accused him of ‘selling access to the president’ to which Biden called him a ‘damn liar’ and said: ‘That’s not true and no one has ever said that. No one has proved that,’ Biden said. But look, fat, here’s the deal.’
Last August Biden suffered another campaign blunder in Iowa, telling a group of Asian and Hispanic voters that ‘poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.’
Quickly realizing his mistake, the former vice president added ‘and wealthy kids. Black kids. Asian kids.’
And at the Iowa State Fair he mangled a line from his standard campaign speech, saying, ‘We choose truth over facts,’ when he meant ‘we choose truth over fiction.’
He also referred to himself as ‘President of the United States’ at the event while responding to a question from DailyMail.com about gun control.
Trump has repeatedly hit the former vice president on his age, calling him ‘Sleepy Joe.’ – Joe Biden is not playing with a full deck.