{"id":1382890,"date":"2022-03-15T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T21:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1382890"},"modified":"2022-03-15T21:20:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T01:20:51","slug":"biden-announces-the-first-ladys-husband-contracted-covid-has-to-be-reminded-thats-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-announces-the-first-ladys-husband-contracted-covid-has-to-be-reminded-thats-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Announces \u2018The First Lady\u2019s Husband Contracted COVID\u2019 \u2014 Has To Be Reminded That\u2019s Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-announces-the-first-ladys-husband-contracted-covid-has-to-be-reminded-thats-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1382890&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1385541177.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that \u201cthe first lady\u2019s husband contracted COVID\u201d \u2014 only to be reminded a few seconds later by someone on the sidelines that he, in fact, was the first lady\u2019s husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at the stage,\u201d Biden said, gesturing off to one side. \u201cThere\u2019s been a little change in the arrangement of who\u2019s on the stage, because of \u2014 the first lady\u2019s husband contracted COVID, but \u2026 look at this room and what you\u2019ll see \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Someone off to the side caught Biden\u2019s attention then, and he stepped back slightly from the microphone to hear them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPardon me?\u201d he said, and laughter erupted in the room, only getting louder as Biden clearly realized what he had said and added, \u201cThat\u2019s right. She\u2019s fine. It\u2019s me \u2026 The second lady \u2014 the first gentleman \u2014 how about that?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden says &#8220;the First Lady&#8217;s husband has tested positive for covid.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Somebody off to the side is then forced to remind him that is in fact him lmfao. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dbAL37OfBP\">pic.twitter.com\/dbAL37OfBP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1503855506393374728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden had apparently been trying to announce that second gentleman Doug Emhoff, husband to Vice President Kamala Harris, had tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/15\/politics\/doug-emhoff-covid\/index.html?utm_term=link&#038;utm_content=2022-03-15T22%3A16%3A15&#038;utm_source=twcnnbrk&#038;utm_medium=social\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cEarlier today, the Second Gentleman tested positive for Covid-19,\u201d said Sabrina Singh, deputy press secretary for Vice President Kamala Harris. \u201cOut of an abundance of caution, the Vice President will not participate in tonight\u2019s event. The Vice President tested negative for Covid-19 today and will continue to test.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Emhoff\u2019s positive test is the first known case of Covid-19 among the first or second families since President Joe Biden and Harris took office in January 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI tested positive for COVID. My symptoms are mild and I\u2019m grateful to be both vaccinated and boosted,\u201d Emhoff <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/secondgentleman\/status\/1503880657797357575?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said on Twitter <\/a>Tuesday night. \u201cIf you have yet to get vaccinated and boosted, please don\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/15\/doug-emhoff-covid-00017581\">report<\/a> from Politico, Emhoff is not considered to be a \u201cclose contact\u201d to the president. Harris, who has thus far tested negative, was with both Emhoff and Biden in the last several days. The president, the official said, \u201cwas tested this weekend as part of his regular cadence, and we will continue his regular cadence of testing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden is scheduled to travel to Brussels next week for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conference on the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This photo from is this afternoon:<\/p>\n<p>Doug Emhoff, VP Harris\u2019 husband, just tested positive for COVID<\/p>\n<p>Harris tested negative but is in the window when that could change<\/p>\n<p>She stood next to President Biden and Democratic Hill leadership today<\/p>\n<p>Biden is to go to Brussels next week <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QYMXNIBItv\">pic.twitter.com\/QYMXNIBItv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonLemire\/status\/1503857682138255362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden also struggled when it came time to announce Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, appearing to forget which state (Michigan) <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/file-under-not-qualified-to-be-energy-secretary-biden-official-stumped-on-basic-question-crenshaw-slams\/\">Granholm<\/a> had served as governor.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden on his Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was the former governor of a state of, uh\u2026Michigan. Michigan? Wrong. She was the former state of\u2014she was a governor.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f0cDY6uPJr\">pic.twitter.com\/f0cDY6uPJr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1503857666963443712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFormer Governor Jennifer Granholm of the Energy Department,\u201d Biden began, adding, \u201cI often kid her, and I wasn\u2019t kidding early on when I was seeking the nomination, had she been born in America, she\u2019d be standing here and I\u2019d be sitting there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was the former governor of the state of \u2014 uh \u2014 Michigan. Michigan? Wrong. She was the former state of\u2014she was a governor,\u201d Biden continued.<\/p>\n<p>Granholm, who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, served as Governor of Michigan from 2003-2011 and as Michigan\u2019s first female Attorney General from 1999-2003.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that \u201cthe first lady\u2019s husband contracted COVID\u201d \u2014 only to be reminded a few seconds later by someone on the sidelines that he, in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}