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Biden's Verbal Gaffes Mounting

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is the leading
   Democratic presidential contender among two dozen candidates looking to
   take on President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, but Biden is
   proving to be unchallenged at committing verbal gaffes on the campaign
   trail.

   Biden, with four decades on the American political scene, has long been
   afflicted with jumbling his public pronouncements into word salads that
   leave listeners guessing as to their meaning and political opponents
   quick to attack the 76-year-old politician.

   The latest instances have come in the Midwest farm state of Iowa, where
   many of the crowded field of Democrats have trekked to the annual state
   fair to eat pork on a stick, a local favorite, aim their verbal attacks
   at Trump and look for votes ahead of the first Democratic presidential
   nominating contest early next February.

   "We choose science over fiction. We choose truth over facts," Biden
   declared, as he attacked Trump from a newspaper's political soap box
   stand for the Democratic candidates.

   Trump was quick to belittle Biden, for 36 years a U.S. senator, eight
   years former President Barack Obama's second in command and twice an
   unsuccessful presidential candidate.

   "Does anybody really believe he is mentally fit to be president?,"
   Trump said on Twitter. "We are 'playing' in a very big and complicated
   world. Joe doesn't have a clue!"

     Joe Biden just said, "We believe in facts, not truth." Does anybody
     really believe he is mentally fit to be president? We are "playing"
     in a very big and complicated world. Joe doesn't have a clue!
     -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [1]August 10, 2019

   As he left Washington for a vacation at his golf resort in New Jersey
   on Friday, Trump contended, "Joe Biden is not playing with a full
   deck."

   To be sure, Trump often exaggerates his claims, with some U.S. media
   outlets saying he lies outright and have called him a racist after
   saying recently that four congressional lawmakers, all women of color,
   should "go back" to their home countries, even though all are American
   citizens, three by birth and one, a Somali refugee, a naturalized
   citizen.

References

   1. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1160320950468009984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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