President Joe Biden‘s brand, at best, is folksy and, at worst, is creepy and cringeworthy as his decades in politics have been marked with a number of noteworthy gaffes.
From calling out out to a dead congresswoman during a speech, to suggesting he has cancer, DailyMail.com charted some of Biden’s most awkward moments from his previous presidential runs and his time in the White House as he launches his 2024 reelection bid.
In the past, even some of his staunchest allies have expressed a wariness over whether his proneness for gaffes could impact his political future.
President Joe Biden‘s brand, at best, is folksy and, at worst, is creepy and cringeworthy as his decades in politics have been marked with a number of noteworthy gaffes.
From calling out out to a dead congresswoman during a speech, to suggesting he has cancer, DailyMail.com charted some of Biden’s most awkward moments from his previous presidential runs and his time in the White House as he launches his 2024 reelection bid.
Former President Barack Obama reportedly remarked to a Democrat during Biden’s 2020 run, ‘Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up,’ according to Politico.
Neera Tanden, who now works in the Biden White House, sang a similar tune when Biden was mulling a 2016 primary bid against Hillary Clinton.
‘The good thing about a Biden run is that he would make Hillary look so much better,’ Tanden told John Podesta, another Clinton-turned-Biden adviser, in a hacked email that was distributed by Wikileaks.
A LIFE-CHANGING GAFFE
Biden was elected to the U.S. Senate at age 29 and mounted his first presidential bid at age 44 in 1987.
If he was elected to the presidency, he would have become the second youngest person to take office after President John F. Kennedy.
But just three months in, his campaign was derailed thanks to a plagiarism scandal, as Biden omitted crediting British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock during two speeches. He previously remembered to use Kinnock’s name.
That gaffe cost him his first chance at the White House in 1988.
He wouldn’t run again until two decades later.
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