{"id":2293376,"date":"2024-07-12T10:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T14:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-biden-says-trump-is-vp-forgets-kamala-harris-during-big-boy-press-conference\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T10:19:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T14:19:51","slug":"watch-biden-says-trump-is-vp-forgets-kamala-harris-during-big-boy-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-biden-says-trump-is-vp-forgets-kamala-harris-during-big-boy-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Biden Says Trump Is VP, Forgets Kamala Harris During &#8216;Big Boy&#8217; Press Conference"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fwatch-biden-says-trump-is-vp-forgets-kamala-harris-during-big-boy-press-conference%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=2293376&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--><p>The article\u2062 discusses President Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/81000-illegal-immigrants-will-soon-be-eligible-under-minnesotas-drivers-license-for-all-program\/\" title=\"81,000 illegal immigrants to qualify for Minnesota&#039;s &#039;Driver&#039;s License for All&#039; soon.\">recent news \u2063conference<\/a>, dubbed a &#8220;big boy&#8221; event due \u200dto the significance of his responses \u2062and the questions\u2062 posed. Amid growing\u2064 concerns about his candidacy and presidency, Biden addressed various topics,\u200c including NATO, Ukraine, and Russia, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-more-approve-of-donald-trumps-handling-of-the-coronavirus-than-joe-bidens\/\" title=\"Poll: More Approve of Donald Trump&#039;s Handling of the Coronavirus than Joe Biden&#039;s\">key campaign issues<\/a> like\u200c inflation\u2064 and border \u2062security. \u2064However, his performance included several gaffes, including referring to\u2063 Vice President\u200c Kamala Harris as &#8220;Vice President Trump.&#8221; The news conference left Democrats uncertain about\u2064 Biden&#8217;s future, as he struggled to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-flees-fox-reporter-drilling-her-about-hamas-terrorists-ignore-this-crazy-lady\/\" title=\"Ilhan Omar evades Fox reporter&#039;s questions on Hamas terrorists: &#039;Disregard this lady&#039;s claims&#039;\">address tough questions<\/a> and maintain coherence. Despite his team&#8217;s\u200c efforts to control \u200bthe narrative, Biden&#8217;s performance only reinforced concerns about his ability to lead effectively.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 12, 2024 at 4:50am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>With defections growing and questions about his viability as a candidate and president at a fever pitch, Joe Biden sought to quell those fears Thursday with a \u201cbig boy\u201d news conference after his usual hours of cogency \u2014 after 7 p.m. on the East Coast, over three hours after he\u2019s supposedly \u201cdependably engaged\u201d for the day.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cbig boy\u201d tag isn\u2019t mine, by the way, which is why it\u2019s in quotes. It was dubbed that by the White House staffers, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/live-news\/july-11-joe-biden-2024-presidential-election-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>, and media outlets, both left and right, were using the words.<\/p>\n<p>And as for the \u201cdependably engaged\u201d part, that\u2019s not mine, either. That\u2019s from an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/shock-wh-aides-admit-biden-dependably-engaged-25-percent-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios report<\/a> after Biden\u2019s June 27 debate debacle in which Biden\u2019s own staff conceded he was only in that state for what roughly approximates a dentist\u2019s office hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if that 3 a.m. phone call Hillary Clinton used to talk so much about ever came, would the people who occasioned it be so kind as to wait seven hours for the president to work himself into shape? That\u2019d be super.<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, it was a \u201cbig boy\u201d news conference. And, despite the fact that this was supposed to be about NATO, given that the organization is meeting in Washington, D.C., this week, Biden began with remarks that started with the situation in Europe, Ukraine and Russia and quickly digressed to key campaign talking points about inflation, tariffs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kari-lake-calls-arizona-dem-govs-plan-veto-border-security-bill-following-texas-crackdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">border security<\/a> and other stuff that NATO, quite obviously, has no interest in.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly seven-and-a-half minutes into his remarks, Biden began calling on a list of pre-approved journalists, beginning with Reuters\u2019 Jeff Mason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. President, your political future has hung over the NATO summit a little bit this week,\u201d he said, noting that Speaker Emerita <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nancy-pelosi-raises-eyebrows-earth-shaking-comments-biden-dropping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> had indicated in an interview that she thought Biden\u2019s decision on whether to stay in the race \u201cwas still open,\u201d and that actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-drops-bomb-george-clooney-slams-late-discovery-bidens-decline-get-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Clooney<\/a>, some union leaders and a handful of Democratic lawmakers either expressed concern about the state of the race or have \u201ccalled on you to step aside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow are you incorporating these developments into your decision to stay \u2026 And separately, what concerns do you have about Vice President Harris\u2019 ability to beat Donald Trump if she were at the top of the ticket?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was the first question, remember. Suddenly, the big boy pants fell down in a hurry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I wouldn\u2019t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president did I not think she was not qualified to be president,\u201d Biden said. \u201cSo let\u2019s start there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, he might have well <em>ended<\/em> there, too:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BIDEN: \u201cVICE PRESIDENT TRUMP\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ERHH4GuFGS\">pic.twitter.com\/ERHH4GuFGS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1811545533418221691?\">July 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The first adversarial question he faces \u2026 and he manages to say that his sworn enemy is, in fact, his veep. Good night, everybody!<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, this was probably the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-biden-mistakes-zelenskyy-putin-face-brutal-introduction-president-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worst gaffe of the night<\/a>, although there no shortages of others. The full event, for dedicated masochists, is here:<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Biden Holds a Press Conference\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4YF3ksozMBw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Biden, who is portraying himself as fit for what are easily two of the top 20 most strenuous jobs in the world \u2014 being president of the United States and running for president of the United States \u2014 told reporters he needed to \u201cpace himself a little more\u201d to conserve his energy.<\/p>\n<p>(This is a president who blamed part of his debate performance on jet lag from a trip he\u2019d returned from two weeks earlier, where he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/09\/us-news\/biden-went-to-bed-early-instead-of-meeting-with-german-chancellor-olaf-scholz-during-2022-g7-summit-event-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly couldn\u2019t attend<\/a> an 8 p.m. meeting because he needed to go to bed.)<\/p>\n<p>He only took questions from a list of reporters provided by his team, which indicated that nobody who was suspected of harboring probing questions was called upon \u2014 although, at this point, the establishment media outlets are hardly as friendly to the Biden cause as they were in the golden years of, oh, 2019 through June 26, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the \u201cbig boy\u201d news conference was the worst-case scenario for Democrats. Did he do well enough to finally set at rest any talk of a Democratic replacement before the election? Not even close. The \u201cVice President Trump\u201d line alone killed that hope.<\/p>\n<p>Did he do badly enough that he repeated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-declares-black-woman-bumbling-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">same faceplants<\/a> of the past few weeks? No. It was rambling and circuitous, but it wasn\u2019t a meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>Did it have bad moments? Plenty of them. And, if you just watched the first part of the news conference, what will stick in your mind most prominently is that he said Donald J. Trump is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/top-pollster-devastating-news-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his vice president<\/a> and didn\u2019t even go back to correct himself.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad enough to dismiss him, not good enough to rehabilitate him. He remains in electoral limbo. The Democrats couldn\u2019t have hoped for a worse night, at least from their perspective. For the rest of us, we could be assured this wasn\u2019t a bad night or jet lag or a cold, but our declining president.<\/p>\n<p>That his performance was more spirited than the presidential debate, or his interview a week later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/interview-disaster-biden-claims-put-nato-together-just-6-years-old-founded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos<\/a>, was simply a question of circumstance.<\/p>\n<p>If he wants to stay, he\u2019s still earned the right to stay, by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/powerful-democrats-plot-replace-biden-via-blitz-primary-involve-michelle-obama-taylor-swift-oprah-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rules of the contest<\/a> \u2014 despite the gathering hurricane in the Democratic Party. 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Douglas Golden on July 12, 2024 at 4:50am discusses Joe Biden&#8217;s recent news conference where he attempted to address concerns about his candidacy and presidency. Despite starting off strong, Biden made a major gaffe by referring to Vice President Kamala Harris as &#8220;Vice President Trump.&#8221; This mistake, along with other rambling moments, did not help his case for remaining in the race. The news conference was seen as a disappointment for Democrats, as Biden&#8217;s performance did not alleviate concerns about his ability to lead. 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