She was 12, I was 30: Joe Biden's cryptic mid-speech off-script remark | Watch
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The remark came during Joe Biden's rebuttal to House Republicans' recently-launched “Commitment to America” campaign platform.
President Joe Biden took the crowd by surprise at a Democratic National Committee speech on Friday as he apparently recognized a woman, stopped his speech midway, pointed to her and said, “You gotta say ‘hi’ to me. We go back a long way. She was 12, I was 30. But anyway.”
Biden: “She was 12 I was 30.”D.C. Crowd: haahahahahahaAnd Democrats call Republicans brainwashed?pic.twitter.com/wB2EKHREg6
The remark came during Biden's rebuttal to House Republicans' recently-launched “Commitment to America” campaign platform.
“This woman helped me get a lot done,” he said about the woman in the crowd at the headquarters of the National Education Association.
The crowd broke into laughter and cheers at the President’s off-script remark. However, Biden didn’t divulge any further details.
“I mean this from the bottom of my heart. Those of you who know me, no one ever doubts I mean what I say, the problem is I sometimes say all that I mean,” Biden added later.
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