WASHINGTON – President Biden, in an interview with a Black radio station published Thursday, said he understands their struggle for representation because before John F. Kennedy was elected president more than 60 years ago, no one thought a Catholic could become president.
Biden, 81, Andrea Lawfull Sanders, radio host from Pennsylvania He said he knew what nominating Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court would mean to “a young girl who goes to school and has problems.”
“I looked at John Kennedy and I said, ‘Oh, John, he got elected. Why can’t I get elected?'” the president said. “People need something to look up to.”
Seconds earlier, Biden had made the bizarre and nonsensical claim that “I was the first president to be elected statewide in Delaware when I was a kid,” which is unlikely to assuage concerns about his advanced age, which have only grown since his embarrassing performance in last week’s debate with former President Donald Trump.
“A lot of people are talking about the debate and your performance, but should the American people be concerned?” Lawful Sanders asked, apparently baffling Biden.
“Well, I had a terrible argument. I had a terrible argument,” he said with a nervous chuckle, “but 90 minutes onstage doesn’t erase what I’ve done for the last three and a half years.”
The appearance was one of two pre-recorded interviews with black radio stations in battleground states that aired Thursday.
In the second interview, Earl Ingram Show Coming out of Wisconsin, Biden freely admitted that he “failed” in his match against Trump, during which he repeatedly stumbled and stumbled over his words.
“It was a bad night, a bad night,” he said with a laugh. “The fact is, I messed up, I made mistakes, but I learned from my dad that when you get knocked down, you get up. You get up.”
“And, you know, we’re going to win this election. Just like in 2020, we’re going to defeat Donald Trump again,” he added.
Biden also denied any intention to drop out of the presidential race following his mental breakdown.
Since the fiasco, Democrats have been meeting quietly around Washington as rumors swirl about a possible change in the party’s presidential nominee ahead of next month’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Throughout both interviews, Biden delivered lengthy remarks criticizing former President Trump, who was recently convicted in New York state of fabricating false documents to cover up evidence that he paid hush money to two women in 2016.
“First of all, I’m running against a convicted felon who has said from day one that he wants to be a dictator. I’m not joking, I’m serious,” he told Lawful Sanders. “And he’s appointed a Supreme Court that has made some pretty ridiculous decisions, not just on choice but on freedom in general.”
“They just said he has immunity, I have immunity, and I reject that. I have immunity that would allow me to avoid prosecution even if I did something that normally would not be allowed, if I did it in the name of my job,” Biden continued, calling the ruling “outrageous.”
“anyway, [I went into] “Way too much detail,” the president added, realizing he was slipping into an incoherent monologue.
He also struggled to compare himself to Trump, stumping at various times when describing the differences between himself and his predecessor.
“He’s going to make the wealthy and big corporations pay taxes. I’m going to make sure they pay their fair share. I’m going to double the tax rate on them,” he told Ingraham. “And he wants to strengthen — I want to strengthen Medicare and Social Security. He wants to cut Social Security and Medicare.”
“Look, I’m sorry to get so worked up, but he’s just done horrible things in the community and he has no more interest or concern for the black and minority communities than the morning man,” he added.
Biden also claimed, “I saved our economy from disaster and it’s still improving, I lowered the cost of prescription drugs, I worked with Republicans to expand veterans’ health care, and I rallied 50 countries to stand up to President Putin.”
“I’m proud of this record,” he said, “and we just have to keep going.”
