Joe Biden says there are ‘54 US states’ during Democrat campaign rally

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The President said ‘We went to 54 states’ as he recalled the campaign defending Obamacare in the 2018 midterm elections
By Nick Allen in Washington 30 October 2022 • 6:54pm

Joe Biden said there were 54 states in the United States in a new gaffe on the midterm elections campaign trail.

There are 50 US states but the president got the number wrong during a speech at a Democrat campaign event in Pennsylvania.

Mr Biden was recalling how, during the previous midterm elections in 2018, Republicans had vowed to overturn the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
He said: “And, of course, they’re going to try for the 499th time, or whatever the number is.

“They’re still determined to eliminate the Affordable Care Act. And, by the way, if they do that means, not a joke everybody, that’s why we defeated it in 2018 when they tried to do it. We went to 54 states.” Mr Biden faced a torrent of criticism from social media for getting the number of states wrong.

It was the latest in a series of recent gaffes by the 79-year-old president. He got the name of the new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, wrong, calling him “Rashee Sanook,” and appeared to get lost and go the wrong way in the White House garden. A behind-the-scenes Democrat whispering campaign has begun in an attempt to dissuade Mr Biden from running for re-election in 2024. But sources have told the Telegraph that Mr Biden is determined to run again.

Joe Biden says there are ‘54 US states’ in latest election gaffe

President got the number of states wrong during a campaign event in Pennyslvania ahead of the midterm elections

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Biden daily gaffe average: The president is batting nearly a thousand​

Biden got on base this week when he called Kamala Harris a 'great president'​

Biden appeared to wander after two speeches in recent weeks. Staffers had to direct him in one instance after an event on the Federal Emergency Management Agency response to Hurricane Ian.

The president dropped his notes in another interview with CNN, then delivered an improvised, unclear response. He also estimated that his administration has overseen "a billion a trillion 750 million dollars billion dollars off the sidelines of investment" on countering climate change.

Biden’s most common gaffe over this time period was his tendency to misspeak. He mispronounced the Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, announced Pennsylvania Senate Candidate John Fetterman’s wife will be a "great, great lady in the Senate," and declared in one speech, "Let me start off with two words: Made in America." He also spelled out D-O-T as he read a URL off the teleprompter.

"New York sent not only a Congresswoman, one of the most congresswoman in the Congress," he explained in another speech.

The president has displayed unusual physical behavior as well. At one October event, he grabbed a girl’s face and then held her hand for a minute as he greeted others. Seconds later, he held a woman’s shoulder for nearly 30 seconds as he continued to shake hands with the crowd.

Biden daily gaffe average: The president is batting nearly a thousand

President Biden had 17 gaffes over the past four weeks, an avearge of nearly one per workday, mistakes that include mispronunciations, confusion, and inaccurate statements.

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The President said ‘We went to 54 states’ as he recalled the campaign defending Obamacare in the 2018 midterm elections

😂😂😂...What a "moran"...Even Obama knows we have 57 states!

 

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Hey, you Trumpers can make fun 'o me all you want but 'ya know I came from the 1st State, even though I don't remember where it is or when it became one!

Delaware is known as the First State because it was the first colony to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Delaware is known as the first state in the United States because it was the first of the original 13 colonies to ratify the Constitution that formed the U.S. government. Prior to this unification, the 13 colonies were all under British rule.