'I HAD A BAD NIGHT': Biden attempts to relate to minorities in rambling radio interviews

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U.S. President Joe Biden brought up John F. Kennedy while trying to relate to minorities during one of two pre-recorded interviews with Black radio stations.

Biden first told Pennsylvania host Andrea Lawful-Sanders of WURD Radio that he knew what his nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court meant to “a young girl who is in school and having trouble.”

The president claimed to understand that struggle and need for representation, likening Jackson’s nomination to a time when he didn’t think Catholics could lead the country.

“I looked at John Kennedy and said, ‘Well, he — John — he got elected. Why can’t I get elected?’” the president explained. “People need things to look up to.”

When Lawful-Sanders asked Biden about his faceoff against Trump in the first presidential debate and whether Americans should be concerned, the president responded with an uncomfortable laugh.

“No, I had a bad debate — I had a bad debate,” he said. “But 90 minutes on stage does not erase what I’ve done for three and a half years.”

In the second interview, with The Earl Ingram Show in Wisconsin, Biden admitted he “screwed up” against Trump.

“I had a bad night, I had a bad night,” he said with a laugh.

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“The fact of the matter is that, you know, it was — I screwed up, I made a mistake and, but I learned from my father, when you get knocked down, just get back up. Get back up.”

Biden also denied any intention of dropping out of the presidential race following the disastrous debate.

“You know, we’re going to do, we’re going to win this election. We’re going to just beat Donald Trump as, like we did in 2020, we’re going to beat him again.”

Throughout both interviews, Biden went off topic, even admitting to Lawful-Sanders that he was giving “too much detail.”

He also struggled while comparing himself to Trump, repeatedly stumbling over his words in describing the differences between he and his predecessor.

“He’s going to make the wealthy, large corporations pay their — I’m going to make sure they pay their fair share — he’s going to double down on tax rates for them,” he stammered to Ingram.

“And he wants to strengthen, he — I want to strengthen Medicare and Social Security, he wants to cut Social Security and Medicare.”

He continued: “Look, I’m sorry to get so worked up, but he is just — he’s done terrible things in the community, and he has about as much interest and concern for Black and minority communities as the man in the morning does.”

During a speech at the White House’s Fourth of July celebrations, Biden appeared to lose his train of thought while addressing people at a barbecue, commenting that highway congestion no longer exists and referring to Trump as his “colleague.”

“I probably shouldn’t even say that … anyway,” Biden said, in addition to trailing off several times.

As he left the stage, Biden picked up the microphone one last time to talk about traffic no longer being an issue.

“One last thing, and I used to think when I was a senator, there were always congestion on the highways,” he said. “There’s no congestion anymore. We go on the highway, there’s no congestion.”

He added: “And so what? The way they get me to stop talking, they’ll say, ‘We just shut down all the roads, Mr. President, you’re gonna lose all the votes if you don’t get in. But anyway, I’ll be back out.”