No, Joe Biden didn't forget he was running for President, despite claims from Fox News and Donald Trump.
Viral tweets - and a segment on Fox News - selectively edited a speech made by the former Vice President to appear he had suggested he was running for the Senate.
But the unedited footage makes it clear he was referring to his initial run for the Senate in 1973.
However - and admittedly quite confusingly - the former Vice President mixed up his tenses.
The edited video shows him saying: "You know, we have to come together. That's why I'm running. I'm running as a proud Democrat for the Senate."
In the unedited footage, he's shown as saying: "You know, we have to come together. That's why I'm running. I'm running as a proud Democrat for the Senate, when I ran as a proud Democrat for vice president, and I'm running as a proud Democrat for president.
"But I promise you this, I will govern as an American president."
Trump, apparently having seen the edited clip shown on Fox News during his flight to Florida, tweeted: "I’m running as a proud Democrat, for the Senate”. Sleepy Joe Biden today. It’s only going to get worse. It is not sustainable for our County - China will own us!!!!"
Biden pulled further ahead in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, building momentum in two states that Trump carried in the 2016 presidential election, Reuters/Ipsos opinion polls showed on Monday.
The polls, conducted Tuesday through Sunday, showed Biden now leading Trump by 7 percentage points in both states.
Taking advantage of his momentum and growing advantage in the polls, Biden on Monday campaigned in Ohio, where he was once considered a long shot, as he tries to expand his reach into Republican-leaning states.
Speaking to unionized auto workers in Toledo, Biden said he and former President Barack Obama played a key role in keeping the U.S. auto industry afloat during the financial crisis and recession more than a decade ago.
"Barack and I bet on you and the American worker and it paid off," said Biden, who is hoping to undermine what polls show is Trump's greatest strength, the view among some voters that the former real estate entrepreneur is better at handling the economy.
Biden also appeared at a get-out-the-vote event in Cincinnati. It was Biden's second campaign trip in as many weeks to Ohio, which was once thought out of reach but where polls now show a competitive race.
Trump won the state by 8 percentage points four years ago and almost certainly must carry it again to win re-election. No Republican has won the White House without carrying Ohio.
For months, Trump had worked furiously to shift public attention away from the virus and his handling of the pandemic, which has infected more than 7.8 million people in the United States, killed more than 214,000 and put millions out of work.
His own illness has put the spotlight squarely on his coronavirus response during the closing stretch of the race, with the Biden campaign scaling up its attacks and stretching its campaign into states that normally lean Republican.
The Link LonkOctober 13, 2020 at 06:10AM
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/no-joe-biden-not-forget-22835098
No, Joe Biden didn't forget he was running for President and say he was going for Senate - Mirror Online
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