Joe Biden almost got trapped on stage during a chaotic campaign rally on Sunday, where a rally participant fainted, hecklers lashed out and the president appeared to be answering a question from the crowd about US oil drilling
When it came to reducing the annual cost of prescription drugs for seniors, the senior himself got nervous when he stumbled over something on stage.
“Oops, a – hmm – it stepped on black. Whatever,” Biden said.
The President turns 80 on November 20 and was just discussing his age and birthday when a heckler from the audience interjected.
“I know I don’t look like it, but I’ve been here a while,” Biden joked Sunday night to the crowd gathered at the private liberal arts university Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York.
At that point, Biden was interrupted by at least one protester, whom he appeared to be encouraging as he was escorted out of the venue.
“Let them roar. Let them yell,’ dismissed the President. “That’s more my generation, okay. I’m with you.’
President Joe Biden delivered a chaotic speech from Yonkers, New York, two days before the midterm elections, where he stumbled onto the stage and spent much of his time interrupting his own speech to interact with the audience
Spectator and Sarah Lawrence College student Vivian Lipson spoke at the President’s rally on her college campus Sunday, April 6
Biden had to bounce once during the rally when he tripped over something on stage and nearly fell.
Biden was highly interactive with the crowd during Sunday’s rally for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. So much so that he even started chatting to a member of the crowd who was yelling at the President about drilling at the end of his rally.
He also halted his rally at one point to get medical attention for an unconscious member of the crowd.
Biden shared a story about his conversation with world leaders at the G7 summit right after becoming president, which expressed his ongoing concern that the optics of the US Capitol were being searched by citizens who objected to the 2020 election results collected.
It’s unclear why Biden targeted New York, a state he won by more than 23 points in 2020, for a rally just two days before the 2022 midterm elections. Biden ran for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Sunday, November 6, at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, NY, despite her 7.5-point lead over challenger, Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin
The President had to stop mid-story when viewers alerted him to someone who needed medical attention.
“Okay, I get it, I get it,” Biden said as the audience frantic about the fainting spell. “Let’s get some help here. Someone passed out. i got it, i got it We’ll get help over here.”
Gathering the effort, he attributed the fainting spell to standing for a long time at the rally, where both Gov. Kathy Hochul and Biden were speaking.
Hochul faces her first election after being appointed to complete the term of disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo. She is up against GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin in a state Biden won by 23.2 points in the 2020 presidential election.
The deep blue state is unlikely to turn red as polls show Hochul is 7.5 points ahead of Zeldin. It also raises the question of why Biden chose New York as one of the states where he made his final argument for midterm 2022 election of Democrats.
Biden interrupted his own speech several times to interact with the crowd, including almost encouraging a heckler, attempting to find medical attention for a bystander who fainted, and speaking to a person in the front row about how he was doing “had stopped drilling”.
As Kygo and Whitney Houston’s Higher Love began playing to signal the end of Biden’s speech, the President stayed behind and began speaking to one person in the crowd, causing the music to end abruptly.
Only Biden’s side of the call was heard, where he said, “No more drilling. There is no more drilling. I haven’t made any new holes. No.’
There was a pause as a member of the crowd spoke to the President.
“That was before I became president,” Biden replied. “We’re trying to work to achieve that.”
The President didn’t propose plans to pull the US out of economic turmoil at a rally in New York just two days before Election Day – instead he attacked Republicans and once again painted November 8 as a “fight for democracy”.
He followed up Zeldin’s voting record while also citing the names of lawmakers who weren’t in the New York race — like far-right Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.
Biden said the 2022 midterm election will have 300 “election deniers” on the ballot, and claimed Republicans want to deny Democrats the right to vote and ensure their votes don’t count when cast.
“You can’t love the country just by winning,” the president said, referring to some lawmakers who have already indicated they will not accept the results.