WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden sought out deceased Rep. Jackie Walorski on Wednesday during remarks at a hunger conference, saying “Where’s Jackie?” The White House press secretary later said the congresswoman had been “top of mind” for the president at the time.
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Karine Jean-Pierre did not acknowledge that Biden had misspoken during his remarks at the White House conference on hunger, nutrition and health when he looked around the room for Walorski, the Indiana congresswoman who died in an August car crash.
Biden, in his remarks. praised bipartisan lawmakers who worked on addressing childhood hunger, including Rep. Jim McGovern, Sen. Mike Braun, Sen. Cory Booker and Walorski, who was seen as a leader on the issue before her death.
“Representative — Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? I think she wasn’t going to be here — to help make this a reality,” Biden said.
Jean-Pierre faced repeated questioning during Wednesday’s White House press briefing about Biden’s flub, saying more than a dozen times that Walorski was “top of mind” for the president, who plans to meet with the congresswoman’s family at an event Friday when he signs a bill renaming a Veterans Affairs clinic in Indiana after her. She declined to say Biden had erred, nor did she issue an apology to the late lawmaker’s family.
“My answer is certainly not going to change,” she told reporters. “All of you may have views on how I’m answering it, but I’m answering the question to the way that he saw it and to the way that we see it.”
Now, of course, if it was former President Trump who would of made the same gaff, the left wing media would of gone crazy demanding Trump resign immediately.
Now he is talking to, and looking for the dead. How did we vote in a guy like this – mind boggling
It’s only crazy uncle joe again So he forgot she died in a car crash it that he’s president. That’s ok for him while he destroys america
Once he learns she is deceased, Biden will blame her for the stock market crash, struggling economy and inflation. Never accept blame or responsibility is Democratic motto.
To Biden there’s no difference between death or alive , both can vote in his party
no one has to apologize over Biden. We all know he is beginning stages of dementia.
Watch them blame the teleprompter
“but I’m answering the question to the way that he saw it and to the way that we see it.”
In other words in same way they answer the question as to whether they are male or female.
Brainmush Joe does it again. Checks the right boxes Karine again tries to claim all is well this is normal.
Let’s make this election about Trump instead of Biden. That’s a fine dem strategy . And let’s make believe he isn’t sleepy joe