By PoliZette Staff | July 31, 2019
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) were going at it on Wednesday night over criminal justice reform issues in this country when Biden made a gaffe he may be regretting for hours and hours and days and days from now.
Said Biden, “The fact is that the bills that the president — excuse me, the future president of the United States — that the senator is talking about …”
He grabbed Booker’s arm and tried to lighten the moment, but it almost didn’t matter what he said after that.
Biden was embarrassed.
Booker was jubilant about that reference.
Twitter exploded.
And Biden had another gaffe now added to his long list of gaffes over the years.
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Booker later said, all smiles, “I’m grateful that he endorsed my presidency already.”
See these tweets on the issue:
Did he just call Cory the future president. OMG.
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) August 1, 2019
https://twitter.com/Clyllie/status/1156736633837969408
VP Joe Biden really called Corey Booker the President. He thought he was talking to President Obama. He really thinks all black people look Ali….nevermind. #DemDebate
— Charlamagne Tha God (@cthagod) August 1, 2019
And the fact he’s 77 having serious mental lapses
— Alex (@Brazil201) August 1, 2019
https://twitter.com/Mantourguy/status/1156735542639386624
Are we really having a debate over the history of the Newark police department?
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) August 1, 2019
In an exchange on criminal justice reform, Booker tells Biden, "If you want to compare records—and, frankly I'm shocked that you do—I am happy to do that. Because all the problems that he is talking about that he created, I actually led the bill…that reverses the damage."
— ABC News (@ABC) August 1, 2019
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