Biden invokes JFK in cringeworthy attempt to relate to minorities in rambling black radio interview
By Social Links for Caitlin Doornbos
Published July 4, 2024, 3:36 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON – President Biden told a black radio station in an interview released Thursday that he understood their struggle for representation — because he didn’t think Catholics could be president before John F. Kennedy was elected more than six decades ago.
Biden, 81, told Pennsylvania radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders that he knew what his nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court meant to “a young girl who is in school and having trouble.”
“I looked at John Kennedy and said, ‘Well, he — John — he got elected. Why can’t I get elected?'” the president said. “People need things to look up to.”
Seconds earlier, Biden made the bizarre and nonsensical claim that “I’m the first president that got elected statewide in the state of Delaware, when I was a kid,” a lapse that will do nothing to quell concerns over his advanced age, which have only grown since his embarrassing performance at his debate last week with former President Donald Trump.
“A lot of people are talking about the debate and your performance – do the American people need to be concerned?” Lawful-Sanders asked, to Biden’s apparent chagrin.
“No, I had a bad debate – I had a bad debate” he said with a nervous laugh. “But 90 minutes on stage does not erase what I’ve done for three and a half years.”
The appearance was one of two pre-recorded interviews with black radio stations in swing states that aired Thursday.
In the second interview, with The Earl Ingram Show out Wisconsin, Biden bluntly admitted he “screwed up” the face-off with Trump, during which he regularly lost his train of thought and stumbled over his words.
“I had a bad night, I had a bad night,” he said with a chuckle. “The fact of the matter is that, you know, it was – I screwed up, I made a mistake and, but I learned from my father, when you get knocked down, just get back up. Get back up.”
“And, you know, we’re going to do, we’re going to win this election. We’re going to just beat Donald Trump as, like we did in 2020, we’re going to beat him again,” he added.
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