'Gaffe machine': Joe Biden's blunders imperil 2020 bid

Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s gaffes are piling up, and Democratic campaign veterans warn it will hurt his White House run.

Mr. Biden, an early front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has shrugged off the frequent slips of the tongue and awkward remarks on the campaign trail.

“I want to be clear: I’m not going nuts,” he joked to supporters in New Hampshire after a string of goofs, including misidentifying the state as neighboring Vermont and pondering Barack Obama’s assassination.

He also recently contrasted poor children with “white kids,” mixed up the year when he met with survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and declared that “we choose truth over facts.”

Those slip-ups all happened this month.
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