The director of news service for Delaware State, Carlos Holmes, said that the former vice president was never a student, though he has made appearances on campus twice before for commencement speeches at the university in Dover.
Former Vice President Joe Biden takes a selfie with a supporter at his South Carolina victory celebration, on Feb. 29, 2020 in Columbia, SC
“Vice President Biden did not attend DSU,” Holmes said earlier last week. “However he was the Commencement keynote speaker in 2003 and [2016], and during the former he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree.”
Biden had made the claim during an October 2019 town hall event held at the historic Wilson High School in Florence, which was founded in 1866 by the Freedmen’s Bureau for Black children seeking an education.
“I got started out of an HBCU, Delaware State — now, I don’t want to hear anything negative about Delaware State,” Biden told the crowd, as shown on video. "They’re my folks.”
Biden went on to win the South Carolina primary -- a turning point for the candidate -- before eventually clinching the nomination.
Earlier this month, the Biden-Harris campaign named Delaware State University President Tony Allen -- formerly a speechwriter in Biden's Senate office -- to its transition team advisory council.
Biden's 2007 memoir titled "Promises to Keep" details his years at private Catholic school Archmere Academy to his time as a freshman at the University of Delaware. There is no mention of Delaware State University.
Biden had a major brain freeze on Friday evening during his interview with MSNBC.
77-year-old Joe Biden could barely speak on Friday as he gave an interview from his basement.
MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle had to jump in and feed Biden his line because he could not recall a word.
Biden’s labored breathing raised eyebrows. Joe Biden was breathing very heavily as he spoke about his ‘economic plan.’
This was difficult to watch.
Trump’s campaign asked, “Is Joe Biden ok?”
WATCH:
This is elder abuse.
Earlier this week Biden could barely make it to the podium, was panting to regain his breath and could barely speak at an event at the US Constitutional Center.
Joe Biden appeared to accidentally reveal a screen with teleprompter text in front of him during an April television interview, a clip of which went viral Friday.
Biden appearing on CBS’s The Late Late Show months ago, held up a photo of himself posing with his two sons when they were in college, a picture which he said hangs in his bedroom:.
As he held up the framed picture, green text seemed to reflect off the glass and into his camera.
As the apparent text first appeared, the show quickly cut to a shot of host James Corden, then back to Biden holding up the photo.
A slowed-down snippet highlighting this moment racked up hundreds of thousands of views Friday night, quickly eclipsing the view count on the Late Late Show‘s official upload:
Earlier this week, Biden press secretary TJ Ducklo would not answer one way or another whether Biden uses an aid to help him with answers during TV interviews.
“We are not going to eng— Bret, this is straight from the Trump campaign talking points,” Ducklo said during an appearance on Fox News.
He claimed such a question is “trying to distract the American people.”
Bret Baier asked for a yes-or-no response and Ducklo would not answer, and instead claimed such a notion was a distraction from Trump’s handling of the coronavirus.
Baier gave him another opportunity to answer.
“I’m not going to allow the Trump campaign to funnel their questions through Fox News and get me to respond to that,” Ducklo said.
In the first week of September, Biden sparked speculation about using a teleprompter during interviews by saying the words “topline message” while discussing the Trump administration’s Venezuela policy. Josh Holmes, former chief of staff to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), alleged Biden was “reading the header” aloud from a talking points memo.
The Biden campaign has not answered a request for comment at the time of this writing.
Trump has knocked Biden for spending a large portion of his campaign at his home in Delaware.
President Trump taunted his Democratic opponent with a new nickname:
“Joe Hiden’.”
“Can you believe what’s happening!?” Trump tweeted Wednesday, with a link to a Breitbart article. “They give Joe Hiden’ the questions, and he reads them an answer!”
In the story, the Trump campaign accuses Joe Biden of accidentally reading an instructional note from a teleprompter as he answered questions in an interview.
In an interview set to air Sunday with NBC 6 anchor Jackie Nespral, Biden discussed Latin American diplomacy, bashing Trump’s policy in Venezuela, before reading the “topline message.”
“I understand that Cuba along with Russia and China has contributed to the political impasse in Venezuela as well. What’s the president doing? Look, Venezuela topline message is President Trump’s policy is an abject failure,” Biden said.
Trump has repeatedly knocked Biden for spending a large portion of his campaign at his home in Delaware amidst the pandemic. Trump and his supporters accuse Biden of hiding in his basement while the left-wing of his party calls all the shots.
“Somebody like Biden, he doesn’t know what to do,” Trump said. “He doesn’t come out because he can’t. He doesn’t take any questions from reporters. ... This guy doesn’t come out of his basement, and he hasn’t taken one question."
Biden made a campaign stop in Pittsburgh last weekend after previously saying he would likely not hit the campaign trail again until after Labor Day.
“Joe Biden is coming out of the basement earlier than his hoped for ten days because his people told him he has no choice, his poll numbers are PLUNGING!” Trump tweeted Sunday. “Going to Pittsburgh, where I have helped industry to a record last year, & then back to his basement for an extended period…”
81 Nobel laureates - scientists who should, in theory, be apolitical - have endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in his bid for the White House, according toThe Hill.
In an open letter released on Wednesday, the scientists praised the former Vice President for his "willingness to listen to experts," after Biden said he would 'shut down the US' if scientists told him to.
The signatories represent the largest group of Nobel laureates to endorse a candidate for office, according to the Biden campaign.
"At no time in our nation's history has there been a greater need for our leaders to appreciate the value of science in formulating public policy," their letter reads.
"During his long record of public service, Joe Biden has consistently demonstrated his willingness to listen to experts, his understanding of the value of international collaboration in research and his respect for the contribution that immigrants make to the intellectual life of our country," they added. -The Hill
The letter is reminiscent of the 70 Nobel laureates who endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016, while 76 endorsed Barack Obama in 2008.
Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) - which The Hill notes is the only physicist in Congress, organized the Nobel winners for Biden's endorsement, according to CNN.
Perhaps it's worth noting that Pew found in 2009 that at least 81% of scientists are Democrat or lean left.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Remember when it was “up to you, New York, New York?”
Answer: Yeah, we can’t remember that far back, either.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
White antifa ransack a black-owned business for racial justice
Governor Granny Killer out on the town, sans mask
And, of course, more projectile word vomit from the alleged Democratic presidential nominee
And so much more.
Shall we begin?
Your Daily Dose of Mostly Peaceful Protest
The good news, if you care to spin it that way, is that the mostly peaceful ransackers also probably don’t know if this specific black-owned office they’re setting on fire has people living above it.
Maybe someone will die of smoke inhalation, but, hey — maybe not!
There’s much more at the Twitter thread, and Insanity Wrap encourages you to watch all the videos.
Also please take note of how calmly and systematically these antifa thugs go about the business of destroying someone’s business, someone’s life.
They aren’t angry or aggrieved or oppressed.
Antifa just firmly believe that ruining people’s lives will advance their political agenda, and so that’s what they do.
Hannah Arendt in 1963 coined the phrase “the banality of evil” to describe Nazi henchman Adolf Eichmann, then on trial in Israel for his role in calmly organizing the systematic destruction of Europe’s Jews.
The only major differences between Eichmann then and antifa today are the uniforms they wear and the scale at which they operate.
But the banality and the evil are both the same.
Masks for Thee But Not for Me, Prole
Nothing to see here but Granny Killer Andrew Cuomo (D-Death’s Door) out and about without the mask on that he insists everyone else wear.
Ron Jeremy Lets the Mask Slip
Insanity Wrap was going to hector the onetime porn performer currently on trial for multiple sexual assaults for not wearing his mask correctly, but then we realized that wearing a mask incorrectly is still probably the safest thing he’s ever done.
De Blasio’s grim message came despite the city recording a 0.59 percent COVID-19 infection rate — “one of our lowest” rates since March, he said Monday.
It’s also in contrast to neighboring New Jersey, which just announced that restaurants would reopen for indoor dining at 25 percent capacity starting Friday. Every other region in New York state, including the neighboring Long Island and Westchester suburbs, have had some indoor dining in place for weeks.
Still, de Blasio said the city’s continuous low infection rates aren’t enough.
“Is there a way where we can do something safely with indoor dining? So far we have not had that moment, honestly,” he said.
Quarantining the young and the healthy was a mistake. Continuing on with it is a crime.
If you’re under 65, not morbidly obese, and otherwise healthy, it’s time to get on with your life and your work, and most importantly, get to the vital business of voting these shutdown bastards out of office.
The Train Wreck of Joe Biden’s Mind (Part 1)
Biden won’t ban fracking. But he will neglect it to death.
It’s the difference between the guillotine and low doses of arsenic. One kills you much quicker, but death comes all the same.
To be fair though, Biden doesn’t actually know what he’s said or what he’s saying — as you’ll see below.
Gonna Make You Sweat Now
(Seen on Facebook.)
Moving right along…
Sir Robinette Bravely Turned and Fled
To be fair once again, it isn’t as though there was much for the press to ask him, after you hear what he said in this next clip.
The Train Wreck of Joe Biden’s Mind (Part 2)
Here’s Insanity Wrap’s transcription. Any errors are our own. Anything resembling grammar, sense, or factuality is purely accidental.
COVID has taken this year, just since the outbreak, has taken more than 100 year. Look. Here’s. The lives, it’s just, it’s [unintelligible]. I mean, think about it. More lives this year than any other year for the past hundred years.
Insanity Wrap will forgive Biden the “[unintelligible]” part. The man has a stutter, and the occasional “[unintelligible]” is just a part of fighting that particular condition.
No longer enjoying the mental acuity to make a simple statement — from the man who would be the next president of the United State — that, as Vito Corleone said, we do not forgive.
The worst part? It appears to Insanity Wrap that Biden is trying to read this vomitous mess from a teleprompter.
Chairman Mao Would Be Proud
(Seen on Facebook.)
Insanity Wrap hates to say it, but the Marxists won the Long March Through the Institutions.
Period. Full stop. They won.
However, “Marxians” is probably a better word than “Marxists.”
Nobody still believes in the dictatorship of the proletariat or seizing the means of production or any of that hardcore Marxist claptrap.
Insanity Wrap supposes that’s an improvement, but only just barely.
While hardcore Marxism is out, using Marxian thinking — particularly Engels’ theory of false consciousness — to divide, conquer, and grow powerful and rich…
…yeah, today’s Left is all-in on that.
When a Red Diaper Baby of little accomplishment like Barack Obama can get elected president, spend eight years causing rife and division, and then exit stage left to a sweet multimillion-dollar Netflix deal, you know the Marxian fix was in all along.
Nasty, Brutish, and Short
Some things are best left not even to the imagination.
On Sunday during an interview, Fox News host Chris Wallace laid into Biden adviser Symone Sanders, pressing her on why former Vice President and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has not held a press conference in almost three months.
“You talk about him being on the campaign trail but I think most people have been struck that he has been — he stayed in his Delaware home mostly and then in large parts since March, he’s held a few socially distanced events,” Wallace said. “And perhaps more important, he has not held a news conference either in person or online for 80 days, almost three months. Why not?”
“Well, Chris, to be clear, Vice President Biden … does interviews, takes question from the press regularly,” Sanders replied. “And yes, in March, we were — we have adjusted to this new normal like most people in America. We have been campaigning virtually, but just because we are campaigning virtually does not mean we are not meeting actual voters across the country.”
“But why hasn’t he held a news conference for 80 days?” Wallace asked.
“Chris, as … many of y’all in the national press and the beltway press are well aware, we take pride in prioritizing local media,” Sanders said. “And so, the vice president is doing local media interviews. He’s doing national media interviews and he is taking questions from reporters.”
Wallace then shot back, “President Trump says that one of the reasons that Biden is holed up in his basement is because he’s not up to campaigning.”
WATCH the clip below:
Read the full transcript below:
CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Joe Biden has largely stayed off the campaign trail since the outbreak of the coronavirus. But instead of the former vice president’s low-profile hurting him, he is seeing a growing lead over President Trump in the polls.
Joining us now, Symone Sanders, senior advisor for the Biden campaign.
Symone, what do you make of the relatively small crowd at the president’s rally last night and the fact that so many of the thousands who were there were not wearing masks?
SYMONE SANDERS, BIDEN CAMPAIGN SENIOR ADVISER: Well, thank you for having me this morning, Chris, and happy Father’s Day.
Look, Donald Trump’s debacle of a rally last night will long be remembered, lest we not forget, the president’s campaign required that folks who were attending his rally sign a waiver so that if I were to get sick the coronavirus, that the campaign would not be held liable.
But I think the most damning thing from that rally last night, Chris, was in fact the president’s admission that he, quote/unquote, said to his people to slow down the testing. This is an appalling attempt to lessen the numbers only to make him look good. And so, I think that’s what will be remembered long after last night’s debacle of a rally. The admission of the president that he slowed testing for his political benefit and it’s not for the American people.
WALLACE: Well, let me just point out, they say that it was a joke and it didn’t seem particularly — well, let me just point out, that’s what they said.
I want to pick up though on this whole question of the public health of these mass gatherings, Symone, because when there were tens of thousands of people marching in the streets and, quite rightly, in protest for the death of George Floyd and the issues of police brutality, there were so many of them — not maybe most, but many of them were not wearing masks. At that time the president called — the vice president, Joe Biden, called those rallies right and necessary, with no mention of public health.
I guess the question is, why the double standard where the protests were okay, but this rally was dangerous?
SANDERS: Chris, there is no double standard here. Protesting is an American right. The American people have the right to go out and raise their voices.
The difference here is, Chris, we are talking about the president of the United States whose vice president, by the way, heads the White House Coronavirus Task Force, holding a rally, not following their own precautions that his own public health officials have put out.
Look, the president has to lead, Chris, and President Trump has demonstrated in so many times, in every sense of the word, that he is unable to do so. And so, the difference between folks going out and protesting police brutality and the president planning a rally where six of his own advanced staffers before the rally contracted COVID-19 is as clear as day.
And again, Chris, this is about public health. No one is saying, you know, we want the economy to reopen, we want folks to get back to work, more than 20 million Americans are still out of work. Almost 120,000 people have died due to COVID-19.
Those jobless, those deaths did not have to happen. We’d have to take precautions, Chris. We have to do what is necessary in order to protect the American people, and months ago, the president —
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: By why didn’t — I guess what I’m asking though — if I may, Symone, I just am asking this one question, why did the vice president — because whether it was indoors or outdoors, whatever the reason for the gathering, there were thousands of people in the streets in these protests. Why didn’t Vice President Biden say, look, I understand the concern, but these may be potential super-spreaders?
SANDERS: Chris, I just listen to your last segment where the doctor noted that there has — there is no evidence that the protests are what have spiked coronavirus cases across the country. So I’m not sure what you’re asking or what you’re suggesting.
Look, Vice President Biden has really exhibited leadership on this issue. You know, we have been out campaigning. I also heard you say we haven’t really been on the campaign trail. We’ve been on the campaign trail since March. We’ve been campaigning virtually.
But you have seen Vice President Biden go back out into the actual campaign trail and our events are safe. They are socially distant. They adhere with the CDC guidelines.
Vice President Biden wears a mask. People participating wearing masks because this is about being safe, Chris. This about ensuring the safety of everyone involved.
And what President Trump has demonstrated yesterday is that he actually is not concerned with the public health, he is concerned with his ability to hold a rally. And I’d just like to note, the folks who are out there —
WALLACE: OK, let me —
SANDERS: — they should be able to go get a coronavirus test.
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: Symone, you got to let — Symone, you got to let me in here.
SANDERS: But the folks out there, well, you made (ph) this point, Chris —
WALLACE: Symone, you got to let —
SANDERS: — the folks out there protesting, they should be able to get a coronavirus test. Unfortunately, because the president slowed testing, they are unable to do so.
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: I don’t want to get into a fight but you got to let — you got to let me ask the question. Symone — all right, so here’s a question I’m going to ask you. Joe (VIDEO GAP) you talk about him being on the campaign trail but I think most people have been struck that he has been — he stayed in his Delaware home mostly and then in large parts since March, he’s held a few socially distanced events.
But he — by the large part, he has not found the campaign trail and he could have felt certainly more socially distanced events. And perhaps more important, he has not held news conference either in person or online for 80 days, almost three months.
Why not?
SANDERS: Well, Chris, to be clear, Vice President Biden takes — does interviews, takes question from the press regularly. And yes, in March, we were — we have adjusted to this new normal like most people in America. We have been campaigning virtually, but just because we are campaigning virtually does not mean we are not meeting actual voters across the country.
Vice President Biden has campaigned in Michigan and Florida. Dr. Biden has campaigned in Colorado and Texas.
So, the reality is, what we have been doing is following CDC guidelines, Chris. What we have been doing is insuring —
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: But why hasn’t he held a news conference for 80 — but why hasn’t he held a news conference for 80 days?
SANDERS: Chris, as many of you — many of y’all in the national press and the beltway press are well aware, we take pride in prioritizing local media. And so, the vice president is doing local media interviews. He’s doing national media interviews and he is taking questions from reporters.
WALLACE: President Trump says that one of the reasons that Biden is holed up in his basement is because he’s not up to campaigning. Here was the president on that this week.
(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: He’s not running his campaign. People are running his campaign. I see quotes all the time that he said this, he said that about me, and they’re long, beautiful, flowing sentences. I said, Joe didn’t make that statement and Joe doesn’t even know the statement was made.
(END AUDIO CLIP)
WALLACE: Does the former vice president contribute to the president being able to make that argument by being out of public view so often?
SANDERS: This is just despicable, Chris, honestly. It truly is. The fact that folks are parroting this — you know, just unfounded, salacious lie from the president and his campaign that Vice President Biden isn’t up to the challenge. He’s absolutely up to it. Who — he’s absolutely up to it.
Vice President Biden would tell you if he were sitting right here that he can’t wait to see Donald Trump on the debate stage and he can’t wait to campaign with him.
I just find it interesting that folks continue to parrot these lines from the Trump campaign when it’s (ph) Donald Trump who stood at the White House press program and suggested Americans should ingest bleach to clear themselves out — of the coronavirus.
WALLACE: We reported on that, too, as you — as you know, Symone.
I want to put up some new FOX polls, which I think you’re — you’re going to like. The latest FOX poll shows that Biden is leading President Trump 50 percent to 38, but when asked why they backed their candidate, 31 percent of Biden supporters say it’s because of enthusiasm for him and 63 percent because they fear Mr. Trump. For the president, it’s almost exactly the reverse.
Symone, you know, a lead is a lead. But is the lack of enthusiasm for Biden, even among Biden supporters, what you might call an enthusiasm gap, is that a potential problem?
SANDERS: No, Chris, it’s not. Look, we heard this a lot throughout the primary about an enthusiasm gap, who could and who could not turn out voters. And what we saw in the primaries is that Vice President Biden in contest after contest handily won but also turned out voters, turned out — was up in Virginia in the Democratic primary, it was up in North Carolina.
In the Georgia primaries that just happened, more than 1.1 —
WALLACE: Right.
SANDERS: — million voters voted early.
And so, we are very confident in our strategy, Chris. We think our voters are excited.
But I also think these numbers spell trouble for President Trump, that this is a referendum, this election will be a referendum on his presidency, on his lack of leadership and how his actions have directly affected the American people.
WALLACE: Symone, we’re going to have to leave it there. Thank you. Thanks for joining us. Please come back.
