It has been noted that while President Joe Biden’s support weakens, Vice President Kamala Harris is facing growing calls to replace him on the Democratic party ticket in November’s election. In a recent video clip, Harris slipped up and almost called Biden “vice president“ before swiftly correcting herself as the pair put on a united front at a July 4 event at the White House.
“We give thanks to our commander-in-chief, the vice… the president of the United States! The extraordinary president of the United States Joe Biden,” she told the crowd.
Standing alongside First Lady Jill Biden, the president appeared not to notice the slip-up and accepted the applause and said: “Ho, ho, ho!” Biden seemed to think it was Christmas.
KAMALA: "We give thanks to our commander-in-chief, the vice— the president!"
BIDEN: "Ho, ho, ho!" pic.twitter.com/jJ4MdfLcF9
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He wished the crowd a happy Independence Day, appearing calm in the face of a tirade of calls for him to step aside and hand the ticket to his vice president. Well, it was something of a day riddled with gaffes just hours after Biden declared himself the “first Black woman” to “serve with a Black president” in a radio interview.
“By the way, I’m proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first Black woman… to serve with a Black president,” he said in a stumble on local Philadelphia radio station Wurd on Thursday.
Biden appeared to be highlighting his appointment of Harris as the first Black vice president as well as first woman to hold the job.
To round off a trio of Biden-Harris gaffes, the president once again stumbled while giving a four-minute address during a barbecue for military families on the White House South Lawn earlier in the day.
