WILMINGTON, Del. — Joe Biden made the short drive from his now-famous basement, jogged into the high school gym where he usually votes and excoriated President Donald Trump as failing miserably to protect the health and safety of Americans.
It had been nearly three months since he held his last news conference, and that one took place in a choppy virtual setting. In his absence, Biden has faced relentless badgering from the president and his allies, who accused him of hiding out at home and challenged his mental acuity. On Tuesday, Trump’s campaign took credit for smoking out the former vice president. But whatever fire they were hoping would consume him didn’t seem to catch.
Against that backdrop, Biden parried 16 questions from seven reporters, including three from Fox News.intelligence briefings as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee but that he may request a classified briefing on the Afghanistan matter. “They’ve allowed Trump to just implode,” said Pete Giangreco, a Democratic strategist. And by releasing a renewed coronavirus plan on Tuesday, Biden was able to keep the heat on Trump as the president struggles to contain a resurgence of the virus across the country, including in states“There’s the old adage, ‘when your opponent’s drowning, throw him an anvil,'" Giangreco added. "They did it today with the coronavirus plan to underscore he’s blown this.
I would hope it was gaffe free since he had MONTHS alone to practice it. A 13 yr. old could have done that, and probably better.
Gaffe free? You can gaffe when all you say is ummmm, uhhhh
Haha haha gaffe-free.
As long as he’s on script or asked extreme softball questions by the biased media. Wait till he has to debate President Trump then we’ll see how well he does. Politico is just another arm of the Democrat Party. Can’t we just get some real news!
Apparently i was watching a different press conference. Debates will be awesome.
Gaffe Free? Easy Qs. LONG pauses. Confusion. It was sad. Qs not asked: why did Biden lie about Flynn investigation? Does Biden support defunding police? What would Biden have done w CHOP? Why was Biden silent on Iran bounties in 2010? Why did Biden condemn Soleimani killing?
If you call a blank stare and a pause long enough to put you to sleep gaffe free, then he was gaffe free. I like the part where he says, they gave me a list, who’s next? Did he have the questions lined up for him?.....
There is video--why lie?
He was told who to call on, and had his answers prepared. 😂
Amazing that far-left Politico's best praise for Biden is that his performance was 'gaffe free.' But it wasn't. Biden came across as nearly comatose, and he repeatedly flubbed his lines even though he was given a series of softball questions from sycophantic reporters.
gaffe free?
'Gaffe' More like mental decline but it's just semantics
Nice try that ass hole is never gaffe free.
All Biden has to do to exceed expectations is to not screw up. The political manoeuvres of team Trump have been an abject disaster for months now.
So many negative & nasty people here. Grow up already 🤬
He's been out of his basement for awhile now, has given a number of public speeches. This whole 'hiding in his basement' line needs to go away now 🙄🙄🙄
....mmmmmm, pills.
Gaffe free? Lol. WTF did you watch?
Lol...he goofed again. You are fake news.
lol..i would hope not, given that the questions were HAND PICKED...what a joke. Im sure he will get the questions before the debates, ala Hilary Clinton style.. dont think ive ever seen a presidential candidate so coddled and protected before
Yes, but the president can READ!!!!! 😎
He was scripted and had a list of the reporters he could call on who’d do his bidding. You are fakenews! Idiot too—anyone could see he was a awful. No questions about his quid pro quo w/Ukraine or his lie he didn’t know about the framing of Michael Flynn 🇺🇸! He conspired...
Gaffe free performance? Fake News🙄
Yay Joey, tore Trump a new one
wuerker If only this tweet was gaffe-free. Usually we call this... performance. duh
Yay Joey is doing fine
Did you fall asleep during this snooze fest? He had to check his notes to remember the name of his home town newspaper.
It was not gaffe-free despite the leftist media's best efforts to coddle him.
He had months to practice. I'm not impressed. JoNotJoe JoJorgensen2020
It’s breaking news and they are crowing that Biden Spoke for 5 minutes without forgetting who he was
Gaffe-free?! Did you even....watch? This smells like a blakehounshell special.
Did you just seriously say he had a gaffe-free performance? No...really? That's what you're going with 😂😂
Gaffe free?
Bah-hahahaha! Yeah, THAT’S how it happened. 😂🤣😂 You really think we’re all stupid. 🤦🏻♂️
Reading a teleprompter of some handlers thoughts and asking pre assigned reporters handlers questions. Is that gaffe free? Did you see how fast old Biden ran out of there? What was he afraid of?
You mean the one where he was given the list of reporters for him to call on?
Gaffe free? He literally admitted on TV that there were reporters (shills) in the audience that his campaign advised him to call on for questions.
Did you, uh, uh..... umm...did you uh... what’s the-umm, watch it?
Remember this. He can still read a teleprompter (barely). He won’t have one, or notes at debate(s).
Hahaha
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wow, Politico is officially on the Biden campaign. Biden was a bumbling fumbling fool with obviously pre-arranged questions which he had an ear piece, teleprompter, and notes to help him answer...and he still looked like an alzheimer patient wandering the sideroads.
😂😂😂 really
Well joe is now 1 for 50,000 way to go JOE D ., as in dementia
Liars.
gAfFe-FrEe PeRfOrMaNcE
No gaffes, but he still an idiot
Did anybody ask Biden what he would do about all the vandalism and looting that has taken place over the last month?
Nice try
Hardly gaff free. He informed everyone he had hand picked reporters to get questions from ( so the teleprompter could give him the answers). LiberalismIsTheRealPandemic
Gaffe free? Really? Dude was asleep and just threw mud the entire time. Such a weak ass performance.
Politico just owned itself
When the bar is that low.,,
It was a joke
You have very unconventional definition of gaffe.
Gaffe free? man, what are you smoking?
How low is the bar for presidential candidates that we think it’s a ‘gotcha’ when they deliver 1 speech right?
You spelled 'Mentally Declining Performance' wrong.
Biden is a true leader and will make a great President, something Trump only wishes he could be.
Gaffe free? Really lol
Its news when Biden doesn't have one mistake, but Trump can barely put together coherent sentences and no mention of his mental decline.
Put them in a debate.
Bye Don 😁
You weren't watching then 🤣😂🤣😂 What a hot mess.
Can we not play this game Trump is by zeroing in on if Biden makes even the slightest gaffe, to justify Trump?
Biden must be so proud of himself for delivering a gaffe free performance. We need better than that for a presidential candidate
Wow such low expectations of joe.
Joe Biden is no Hillary....
I love that it’s news when Biden has a gaffe free performance lol
That’s how low the bar is, he gave a gaffe-free “performance”. JoeBiden derp
We love you Biden, thank you also for following the doctor’s orders
I think Joe had a talk with Obama, who is the king of 'easy speech' as my son's speech therapist calls it. (we actually watch videos of Obama speeches to study his techniques). 'Joe, SLOW DOWN'
Almost like the Trump campaign is full of shit.
Spot on! Down with TRUMP the shit-birds are calling him home.
How stupid is this? “Smoke him out”? He’s been out and about and going to states like PA having round tables and such. What the heck?
Nixon had Watergate. Trump had Waterglass. 🇺🇸
Trump should focus on his 'friend' Putin slaughtering our soldiers.
Imagine being excited when your candidate doesn’t screw up 😂
Gaffe-free? Politico, are you drunk?
Omg reading off a teleprompter a second grader can do this. We know the real unedited Joe Biden
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