Bizarre moment Biden, 81, insults reporter for asking if he will serve a full second term or hand over power to Kamala Harris… who gets a bigger cheer at campaign rally for black voters
President Joe Biden, 81, suggested a reporter was crazy Wednesday when asked whether he would serve a full second term or hand power to Vice President Kamala Harris.
Biden and Harris traveled together to Philadelphia on Wednesday to launch “Black Voters for Biden-Harris,” as recent polls showed the Democratic ticket slipping among that group compared to four years ago.
Biden would be 86 at the end of a second term, something voters have expressed concern about as he has also teased a future President Harris in recent weeks.
‘Is everything all right? Are you okay?’ Biden asked the reporter, pointing to his head, when asked the second term question.
However, when the Democratic duo arrived at Girard College for the campaign rally, it was Harris who received a hero’s welcome, as schoolchildren in the stands screamed as the vice president was introduced.
President Joe Biden (left) pointed to his head — an assertion that a reporter was crazy — when asked whether he planned to serve an entire second term or hand power to Vice President Kamala Harris as he joined Rep. Joyce Beatty arrived in Philadelphia. (right) Wednesday
Vice President Kamala Harris (right) drew bigger cheers when she was announced — especially from the schoolchildren attending Girard College — at a campaign rally for black voters with President Joe Biden (left) Wednesday in Philadelphia
“So in 2020, Black voters in Philadelphia and across the country helped President Biden and me win the White House,” Harris said. “And in 2024, with your voice and your strength, we will win again.”
“Philadelphia, in Joe Biden we have a warrior, a leader with skill, vision, determination and compassion,” she continued. ‘A leader who keeps his promises.’
When it was Biden’s turn to speak, he said he came to Philadelphia “to speak the truth.”
“The truth about ‘promises made, promises kept,’” the president said — which was Trump’s campaign motto for part of the 2020 race.
Biden blasted Trump for botching the initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Black people were hit harder than anyone else,” the Democrat said. “He hasn’t taken responsibility for any of it.”
The president mocked Trump again for saying, “Just inject a little bleach.”
“The way he’s acting, I think he injected himself with a lot of bleach,” Biden said.
Prior to the arrival of the President and Vice President, the Sixers Stixers drum lines of the 76ers performed, as well as the drum lines of ‘Philly Elmo’ Positive Movement Entertainment.
The event was held at Girard College, a K through 12 boarding school whose students are predominantly black.
The school began as a shelter for white male orphans, but was integrated after a fourteen-year struggle following the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board.
Biden meeting with families of Brown v. Board at the White House earlier this month.
William Fulton, known as the “Philly Elmo,” dances onstage with the Positive Movement Entertainment drummer during President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ performance in Philadelphia Wednesday
The 76ers’ Sixers Stixers drum lines perform ahead of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ appearance Wednesday in Philadelphia to launch Black Voters for Biden-Harris
Students at Girard College, a K-12 boarding school with a predominantly black student body, hold up signs reading “historically black”
The trip to Pennsylvania follows similar outreach to Black voters in the battleground states of Georgia and Michigan earlier this month.
Biden delivered a speech at the historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he told graduating seniors that former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies “don’t see you in the future of America.”
The president did not mention Trump or Republicans by name, but it was clear who he was talking about when he brought up the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
“Insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol with Confederate flags are being called patriots by some,” Biden said. “Not in my house.”
“Black police officers, Black veterans who protected the Capitol, as you remember, were called a different word,” Biden continued.
Later that day, in Michigan for the NAACP Detroit Branch Freedom Fund dinner, Biden drew gasps from the crowd when he floated an idea.
“What do you think he would have done on January 6 if Black Americans had stormed the Capitol?” the president asked about Trump.
Trump reiterated Saturday evening at the Libertarian National Convention that he planned to pardon those involved in the January 6 riot.
Biden will need to boost his support among black voters if he plans to win Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia again.
New York Times poll in Pennsylvania earlier this month showed that Biden only received the support of 50 percent of black voters in the Keystone State when third-party candidates including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were taken into account.
In that scenario, Trump received 12 percent of support from black voters, while Kennedy received 11 percent in the state.
That number rises to 69 percent in a two-way race against Trump, with the former Republican president receiving 18 percent of the black voter share.
Exit polling from four years ago in Pennsylvania found that Biden won the votes of 92 percent of Black voters across the state.
Participants interviewed by DailyMaill.com said they believed Biden and Harris still had a lock on the black vote.