President Joe Biden suffered another gaffe during a speaking event as he tried to paint his opponent, former President Donald Trump, as untrustworthy.
Biden, at 81 years old, the oldest president in American history, appeared before supporters at a community college in Tampa, one week before Florida bans abortions past six weeks.
He called out Trump, his 2024 general election opponent, as the sole person responsible for the ‘cruelty and chaos’ that’s occurred after the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
However, when he did so, he accidentally asked: ‘How many times does he have to prove we can’t be trusted?’
ABC News tried to cover for the president, replacing the word ‘we’ with ‘he’ in describing the speech, though he was clearly heard saying ‘we.’
President Joe Biden suffered another gaffe during a speaking event as he tried to paint his opponent, former President Donald Trump, as untrustworthy
Biden, at 81 years old, the oldest president in American history, appeared before supporters at a community college in Tampa, one week before Florida bans abortions past six weeks.
In 2024 alone, Biden has made several flubs, publicly forgetting the name of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny’s widow, forgetting a German chancellor he’d spoken to died in 2017 and confusing the leaders of Egypt and Mexico.
Biden was attempting to describe Trump’s rhetoric on abortion, blaming him for the end of Roe vs. Wade and any future rollbacks.
‘He described the Dobbs decision as a miracle,’ Biden said of Trump. ‘I think it’s coming from that Bible he’s trying to sell.’
‘I almost wanted to buy one just to see what the hell’s in it,’ Biden added of the $60 purchase.
In January just days before the Iowa caucuses – which Trump easily won – the Republican ex-president participated in a Fox News town hall and boasted of the ‘miracle’ of ending the constitutional right for women to have an abortion.
Former President Donald Trump, who was in court Tuesday, holds up a Bible he’s selling for $60
Trump warned, though, that Republicans who back extreme bans are being ‘decimated’ in elections.
Biden pointed out that political reality on Tuesday, noting that Trump is ‘worried’ voters plan to hold the presumptive GOP nominee ‘accountable.’
‘Donald Trump is worried that voters are going to hold him accountable for the cruelty and chaos he’s created,’ Biden said.
‘The bad news for Trump is we are going to hold him accountable,’ Biden continued. ‘We are – he should be held accountable.’
Florida voters have the ability to rescind the abortion ban if they approve Amendment 4 in November, which would allow abortions up to the time of viability, which is generally considered around 24 weeks.
That measure needs 60% support from Florida voters.
The Biden campaign is hoping that it will invigorate enough pro-choice voters to give the president a chance to flip the state.
Trump won Florida by a 3.4-point margin in the 2020 campaign, improving on his performance four years earlier when he beat Hillary Clinton in the state by 1.6 points.
‘I think Florida is in play, nationally,’ Biden said after his prepared remarks.
‘This election is a basic old fashioned election,’ the president continued, explaining that it will all be about turnout.
The Biden campaign is arguing that once Florida’s law goes into place there will effectively be an abortion ban across the entire Southeastern part of the nation.
Almost 7,000 women traveled from out of state last year to receive an abortion performed by doctors in Florida, according to a report from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.
Florida voters have the ability to rescind the abortion ban if they approve Amendment 4 in November, which would allow abortions up to the time of viability, which is generally considered around 24 weeks.
That measure needs 60% support from voters.
Trump has yet to say how he would vote on Amendment 4.
Abortion is banned in most cases in 14 states.
Another seven states have restrictions that prevent abortion between six and 18 weeks into a pregnancy.
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