Biden says he and Obama think ‘it’s a right to have badakathcare’ in Michigan rally

Democratic candidate Joe Biden had trouble getting his words out on Saturday during a rally in Michigan as he railed against President Trump‘s plans for healthcare.

Biden was on a roll as he told voters how Trump would take away their protections from pre-existing conditions and destroy the Affordable Care Act when he suddenly muttered something completely unintelligible.

‘We’re also going to act to protect health care. Trump and the Republicans just jammed through a Supreme Court nominee for one overwhelming reason, as Barack said, the president said, they have been trying with over 50 shots to take out Obamacare, to destroy the Affordable Care Act,’ Biden started. 

‘Donald Trump thinks health care is a privilege, Barack and I think it’s a right to have badakathcare,’ he could be heard saying. 

Democratic candidate Joe Biden had trouble getting his words out on Saturday during a rally in Michigan as he railed against President Trump’s plans for healthcare

Former U.S. President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden greet each other with a socially distant ‘air’ elbow bump at the end of a drive-in campaign rally at in Flint, Michigan

Biden has suffered from a stutter throughout his life and recently misread ‘true international pressure’ from his teleprompter during a rally last Saturday as ‘truaninonashufodopressure.’        

Despite common knowledge that the former vice president has had to overcome a stutter in his long career in public service, including decades as a senator from Delaware, Biden has still come under frequent criticism for his verbal gaffes on the campaign trail. 

The gaffes are sometimes mispronunciations or fumbling over words – but in other instances, Biden has used confusing or seemingly inappropriate phrasing or anecdotes. 

One notable gaffe earlier this month occurred when Biden forgot Utah Senator Mitt Romney’s name while speaking to reporters on the Tarmac following a campaign event. 

‘I got in trouble when we were running against that senator who was a Mormon, the governor,’ he said at the time. 

Romney was the Republican presidential nominee in 2012. He served as the governor of Massachusetts until 2007 and in 2019 was elected to the U.S. Senate in Utah. 

Trump seized on the mistake at the time, tweeting: ‘Biden losing big in Florida. Only Fake Polls show otherwise! Bad for Healthcare. Thinks he’s running for the Senate. Forgot Mitt Romney’s name, and where he was! 

Joe Biden was campaigning in Ohio on Monday when he made another slip of the tongue

Donald Trump, on stage in Florida on Monday night, was quick to capitalize on the mistake

‘I’m running as a proud Democrat, for the Senate’. Sleepy Joe Biden today. It’s only going to get worse. It is not sustainable for our County – China will own us!!!!’ 

Trump, 74, has made the age and frequent gaffes of Biden, 77, a recurrent line of attack during his reelection campaign.

On Monday, while campaigning in Toledo, Ohio, Biden provided the president with more fodder. 

Biden spoke in a parking lot with about 30 America-made cars and trucks arrayed nearby while addressing United Auto Workers who represent a local General Motors powertrain plant in the rust belt swing state. 

He mistakingly said that he was running for the U.S. Senate, before quickly correctly his verbal fumble.  

‘You know, we have to come together. That’s why I’m running. I’m running as a proud Democrat for the Senate, when I ran as a proud Democrat for vice president, and I’m running as a proud Democrat for president,’ Biden said. 

‘But I promise you this, I will govern as an American president.’   

Trump, who was in Sanford, Florida for a rally a few weeks ago, repeated his line attacking Biden for forgetting Romney’s name and what office he is running for. 

‘Sleepy Joe Biden, not a nice guy, by the way. He had a very bad day today,’ Trump said.

‘If I ever had a day like he had today, they’d say: ‘It’s over. It’s over.’ 

‘He forgot Mitt Romney’s name. He didn’t know what state he was in. And he said today he’s a proud Democrat running for the US Senate.’

Trump joked: ‘Could you imagine if I did that? ‘Great to be with you. It’s great to be a wonderful developer from New York.’ They’d say: ‘he’s out of here. Get him out.”

Biden ‘has got a lot of bad days coming,’ Trump said.

‘The one thing I know for sure, President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia, Kim Jong Un – they are 100 per cent sharp. 

‘We have someone running who is not 100 per cent, he’s not 80 per cent, he’s not 60 per cent.’

But Biden is not the only one to have fluffed his lines – the president has also made plenty of gaffes while speaking from his prompter. 

In August, Trump mispronounced Yosemite as ‘Yo Semites’ during a routine bill signing of the Great American Outdoors Act.

Earlier in the year he mispronounced ‘NAFTA’ as ‘NASTA’, the the word ‘neo-natal’ as ‘neo-netical’ and overdose as ‘overdoth.’

In 2018, he famously stumbled over the word ‘anonymous’ while referring to an op-ed that had been written in the New York York Times.