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‘Hot damn, boy’: Biden bumbles Fla speech with more weird lies, gaffes and a Southern accent

November 2, 2022 | | Print Article

President Joe Biden, who will turn 80 in less than 3 weeks, traveled to Florida on Tuesday to stump for the two Democratic candidates trailing badly in the race for governor and U.S. Senate — polling shows Gov. Ron DeSantis and incumbent U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., holding commanding leads.

As badly as Charlie Crist and Val Demings needed an energy boost to supplement their faltering efforts, the unpopular, low-energy president failed at the task, stumbling and bumbling his way through a gaffe-filled speech.

After U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. took to the microphone in a desperate attempt to fire up a “sparse” crowd with tepid results, Biden repaid the effort by bungling her role as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

“I don’t have a greater friend in the United States Senate,” the president said. “And I didn’t have a greater friend as vice president, nor as president. So Debbie, thank you, kiddo.”

But that was tame in comparison to a confused Biden ONCE AGAIN repeating the falsehood that his son, Beau Biden, died in Iraq, this coming as he talked about inflation.

“Inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq and the impact on oil, and what Russia is doing — I mean, excuse me, the war in Ukraine,” he said. “And — I’m thinking of Iraq because that’s where my son died. The, uh — because he died.”

Beau Biden, who deployed to Iraq while serving in the Delaware Army National Guard in the Iraq War, died from brain cancer in 2015 at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

With 40-year high inflation hurting Democrats’ midterm efforts, the president was trying to blame the Ukraine-Russia conflict and declared rather boldly that other countries have it worse off — as if that eases the sting American families feel as they choose between essentials like rent and gas over food on the table.

“We have the lowest inflation rate of almost any major country in the world. We’ve done a lot to try to take it under control,” Biden said, ignoring the reality that because of his policies prices were already on their way up long before Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.

Strangely, Biden also claimed he met the “inventor” of insulin while taking credit for lowering the cost, never mind that the naturally occurring hormone was discovered in 1921.

“It was invented by a man who did not patent it because he wanted it available for everyone,” he said. “I spoke to him, okay? And guess what? It cost 10 bucks to make. Ten bucks to make.”

Another bizarre moment came when Biden was employing fearmongering tactics among Florida’s large senior citizen population, distorting reality to falsely claim Republicans are going to take away Social Security.

In what may be a first, the president adopted a newfound southern accent:

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