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  • 2021-03-18 (xsd:date)
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  • ‘President Harris’: Biden Misspeaks During Vaccine Update – Truth... (en)
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  • ‘President Harris’: Biden Misspeaks During Vaccine Update Claim On March 18 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden described Vice President Kamala Harris as President Harris. Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting Just after 3:30 on March 18 2021, President Harris trended on Twitter alongside short clips of United States President Joe Biden’s larger remarks about the vaccine rollout status: BIDEN: When President Harris and I... 🙄🙄🙄 pic.twitter.com/TivsTVzcOd — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 18, 2021 In the above 53-second long clip, Biden said, in part: This is really important, because we believe speed and efficiency must be matched with fairness and equity. Now, when President Harris and I took, uh, a virtual tour of a vaccination center in Arizona, not long ago, one of the nurses on that tour ... Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die Viewers of the live speech observed that Biden’s misstep would likely trend on Twitter: Oh god. President Harris will be trending soon. pic.twitter.com/SAaUpA6mwE — 🧜‍♂️King of Mermanistan 🧜‍♂️ (@KayOstas) March 18, 2021 As soon as I heard President Harris I knew it would trend on twitter. Heeeere we go. pic.twitter.com/sjcYJC9Y5Y — Dolores Pastor (@DoloresPastor3) March 18, 2021 Others read very deeply into the flub: Now when President Harris and I took, uh... Grampy Dementia knows he’s a puppet. pic.twitter.com/2hxhjdslJ3 — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) March 18, 2021 We found a version of Biden’s remarks in their entirety on YouTube (WATCH LIVE: Pres. Biden to give updates on COVID-19 vaccinations) streamed by NBC affiliate WSLS. That clip was nine minutes and 55 seconds long; just after 4:49 , Biden said: This is really important, because we believe speed and efficiency must be matched with fairness and equity. Now, when President Harris and I took, uh, a virtual tour of a vaccination center in Arizona not long ago, one of the nurses on that — on that tour, injecting people giving vaccinations said that each shot was like administering a dose of hope. A dose of hope, that’s how she phrased it. Behind these 100 million shots are millions of lives changed when people receive that dose of hope ... President Biden has openly discussed a lifelong struggle with stuttering; criticism of Biden sometimes describes his speech patterns as a gaffe when incorrect usage of a word is common for those who stutter. A 2020 InStyle editorial written by someone who explained they had had a stutter for as long as [they] can remember included context from an expert about Biden’s gaffes: Stuttering — a communication disorder that is characterized by involuntary interruptions within a person’s speech pattern — is part of my family’s very own cadence. The constant support was vital to give me the confidence to speak freely within our home from a young age. Despite this, I still felt largely alone in my experience as a woman. According to The Stuttering Foundation, women are four times less likely than men to stutter long term. Over the course of the debate, Biden fell victim to what the media would consider one of his gaffes. He appeared to stumble over his words, sometimes changing them at the last minute. Other times, he would begin to say something, pause as if in thought, and then proceed. What the public saw was not a series of mistakes, but a series of blocks caused by Biden’s stutter. He definitely switches up his words, and other times he just stutters through it, Dr. Heather Grossman, the executive director at the American Institute for Stuttering, tells me about Biden’s speech patterns. What a lot of people would think is him tripping over a word is the way he stutters. It’s true that Biden misspoke during March 18 2021 remarks about the milestone of 100 million vaccinations, describing his vice president as President Harris. Some predicted — acurately — that the misstep would be framed as confusion (or even a secret plan to place Vice President Kamala Harris in charge, as some conspiracy theories would have you believe.) However, speech experts have noted that Biden’s tripping over a word is the way he stutters. Posted in Fact Checks , Politics Tagged daily caller , joe biden , joe biden stutter , president harris (en)
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