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On April 5, 2020, U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was interviewed on the ABC News This Week with George Stephanopoulos program. Later in the campaign, a meme circulated via social media reproduced a transcript of a brief portion of that interview, calling attention to words that made no sense: The transcript presented in the meme was reasonably accurate in a literal sense, as can be verified in the following video clip, although reproducing an oral statement in written form, with no punctuation and no context, can create a very different impression than one might glean from listening to a recording of the spoken version: The full context of Biden's remark, according to ABC News' transcript of the interview, was as follows: Biden was referring to the early 20th century influenza outbreak commonly known as the Spanish flu, and (like President Donald Trump consistently does) he misstated that it began in '17 (i.e., 1917) rather than 1918. Then he interrupted his answer a few words later to correct himself, but his correction was also erroneous, placing the outbreak a year earlier (in 1916) rather than a year later (in 1918). Biden also slurred the word take such that it sounded like sakes, and he quickly said the words way they after second fiddle, as if he were going to pursue a different line of expression before stating that, We can both have a democracy, and elections, and at the same time protect the public health. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-20-joe-biden-secretary-mark-esper/story?id=69981088
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