The campaign of Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden is falling apart for everyone to see.
Biden appears to not be able to formulate his thoughts very often and on Thursday he said “they” would “shoot” him if he told everyone his tax plan.
Who “they” is remains a mystery but what we do know is that Biden has been stealthy avoiding questions from the media, not that they have been pressing him.
But on Thursday, at his campaign stop in Kenosha, Wisconsin, it was his own supporters who humiliated him.
The first embarrassment for Bide came when he arrived and, unlike President Donald Trump who drew hundreds when he visited the city days ago, his cheering section was one, lone elderly woman and a spattering of other supporters.
“Maybe I’m in the wrong spot, I don’t know,’” the 60-year-old retired school teacher, Michelle Stauder said to The DailyMail.com before being joined by a handful of other Biden supporters. “I hope to get it started.”
“I just want to support Joe and let him know he’s doing the right thing – telling people to wear masks and that it’s not right to shoot people and settle things with violence. It’s the opposite of Trump,” she said.
There were handful of other people there but the majority of us have had barbecues with bigger crowds than what Biden had in Kenosha.
If this is the enthusiasm the Democrats have then they should be concerned. But his embarrassment for the day was not done.
During his speech, a Black Lives Matter supporter stood to ask a question of the former vice president and revealed that her question was scripted, making it appear as though his campaign pre-screened the question, which was not the case.
“Hello my name is Porsche Bennett,” she said, “and I’m just going to be honest Mr. Biden, I was told to go off this paper but I can’t. You need the truth and I’m part of the truth.”
After she spoke the former vice president, who was a major force behind the 1994 crime bill responsible for jailing countless black people, responded.
“Even though I’ve been involved with the African American community and the Civil Rights movement since I’ve been a junior in high school, segregated movie theatres, I can’t understand what it’s like to go out the door, send my son out the door, my daughter, and worry about just because they’re black they won’t come back. I can’t really, I can intellectually understand, but I can’t feel it,” he said.
After the presser The Washington Post reporter Jonathan Capehart said he spoke to the woman and she admitted that she was given the questions by Black Lives Activists Kenosha (BLAK).
“I was supposed to read off this paper, but I can’t. I need to tell you the truth. It was just little specific demands that we wanted put out there,” Bennett said.
“But I felt like much more was needed to be said. So I didn’t go off our demands strictly on the paper,” she said.
“I spoke straight from my heart … He needed to hear more of what was from our hearts,” she said to the reporter.
It appears the campaign did not pre-screen the questions as some had suggested, but it still provided an embarrassing moment for the former vice president.
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