“He needs to be a strong force on the campaign trail,” said one source close to the Biden campaign, “but he also has to pace himself”
, some Biden allies are proposing a plan to limit the bloopers: restrict his public appearances.
Biden has put his foot in his mouth on several occasions so far, including during a trip to Iowa last week. At a series of events in the key caucus state, he mixed up living former British Prime Ministermistakenly claimed to have met with Parkland shooting survivors while he was vice president, and said that “poor kids” were as smart as “white kids”—a slip-up that some read as revealing of antiquated views on race and class.
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