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  • 2020-07-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Joe Biden Say He's 'Going to Beat Joe Biden'? (en)
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  • Partisans typically seize on and play up every verbal miscue made by their political opponents, but in recent years former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has acquired a reputation for being something of a gaffe machine. That wasn't always the case, however, as Newsweek wrote in a June 2020 profile of the long-serving politician: Nonetheless, in May 2020 numerous pundits began circulating a clip from a Biden television interview in which the presidential candidate supposedly proclaimed, I'm going to beat Joe Biden: That clip was a short excerpt taken from an interview Biden gave with CNBC's Squawk Box on May 22, 2020, and according to the transcript of that interview, Biden actually said he was going to be Joe Biden. Given the obvious similarity in pronunciation between be and beat, it's not possible to definitively determine exactly which word Biden uttered during that interview, but in the full context of the conversation at that point, Biden's use of be made perfect sense, while his saying beat would have been a rather bizarre non sequitur. Biden was responding to a question in which host Joe Kernen questioned how, given his status as a moderate, Biden might appeal to Democrats who initially supported more progressive Democratic rivals Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Biden's response was to assert that he had built up a record over 40 years in public service, and he was going to stick with that record -- that is, he was going to be Joe Biden and not try to mirror the positions of Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders: Additionally, mainstream news accounts of the interview referenced Biden's saying be rather than beat. The Associated Press reported, for example: Similarly, the New York Times wrote that: Given that an interpretation of Biden's words exists which is much more sensible and reasonable that the one asserted above, we rate this claim to be False. Video of the full CNBC interview with Biden is viewable here: https://youtu.be/nbnJ5pTsP6o (en)
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