{"id":9136,"date":"2022-09-29T00:57:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T18:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=9136"},"modified":"2022-09-29T00:57:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T18:57:18","slug":"wheres-jackie-biden-asks-dead-indiana-rep-to-identify-herself-in-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/national\/2022\/09\/29\/news\/9136\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Where\u2019s Jackie?\u2019: Biden asks dead Indiana rep to identify herself in crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Biden made the embarrassing error while thanking bipartisan members of Congress at a nutrition event near the White House.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON, Broadcasting news corporation : President Biden asked for the late Rep. Jackie Walorski to identify herself at a Washington event Wednesday, forgetting that the Indiana Republican died in a car crash last month. Biden made the embarrassing error while thanking bipartisan members of Congress at a nutrition event near the White House. \u201cI want to thank all of you here, including bipartisan elected officials like Representative [Jim] McGovern, Senator [Mike] Braun, Senator [Cory] Booker, Representative Jackie \u2014 are you here? Where\u2019s Jackie? \u2014 I think she was going to be here,\u201d the president said. Biden, 79, is the oldest-ever president and his mental acuity is regularly questioned by his political foes \u2014 though Biden and his defenders have brushed off the concerns by saying the commander-in-chief is simply prone to gaffes. The White House released a statement from the president mourning Walorski on Aug. 3 after she perished in an Indiana wreck alongside her press secretary, Emma Thomson, and St. Joseph County Republican Party chairman Zachery Potts. The tragedy occurred when Walorski\u2019s vehicle, driven by Potts, crossed the median of Indiana State Road 19 and hit another car driven by 56-year-old Edith Schmucker, who also died. \u201cJill and I are shocked and saddened by the death of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski of Indiana along with two members of her staff in a car accident today in Indiana,\u201d Biden said at the time. President Biden seems to forget that Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) died in a car crash in August, seeking her out in the audience: “Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? She must not be here.” pic.twitter.com\/inzKDHrPK7 \u2014 The Recount (@therecount) September 28, 2022. \u201cBorn in her beloved South Bend as the daughter of a meat-cutter and firefighter, she spent a lifetime serving the community that she grew up in \u2014 as a journalist, a nonprofit director, a state legislator, and eventually as a Member of Congress for the past nine and a half years,\u201d he said. \u201cWe may have represented different parties and disagreed on many issues, but she was respected by members of both parties for her work on the House Ways and Means Committee on which she served,\u201d Biden said. \u201cShe also served as co-chair of the House Hunger Caucus, and my team and I appreciated her partnership as we plan for a historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health this fall that will be marked by her deep care for the needs of rural America.\u201d The flag atop the White House was also flown at half-staff for two days after Walorski\u2019s death. Although Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, allege that Biden is in mental decline, Democrats note that he\u2019s struggled with public misstatements for decades. \u201cI am a gaffe machine,\u201d Biden conceded in 2018. \u201cBut my God, what a wonderful thing compared to a guy who can\u2019t tell the truth.\u201d Biden\u2019s record of forehead-slapping statements includes asking Missouri state Sen. Chuck Graham to stand up during a 2008 campaign event \u2014 before realizing too late that Graham was in a wheelchair. \u201cStand up, Chuck, let them see you,\u201d Biden said. \u201cOh \u2014 God love you, what am I talking about? I tell you what, you\u2019re making everyone else stand up, though, pal.\u201dThe president also has a habit of using improper words at awkward points in speeches. During a Middle East trip in July, for example, Biden told an audience in Israel that \u201cwe must \u2026 keep alive the truth and honor of the Holocaust\u201d before correcting himself to say \u201chorror of the Holocaust.\u201d Days later, in Saudi Arabia, Biden said during a speech: \u201cWe\u2019ll always honor the bravery and selfishness \u2014 selflessness of the \u2014 and sacrifices of the Americans who served, including my son, Major Beau Biden, who was stationed in Iraq for a year.\u201d Meanwhile, the president has regularly shared stories that either are false or impossible to verify. In January, Biden told students at historically black colleges in Atlanta that he was arrested during civil rights protests \u2014 for which there is no evidence. Biden in September 2021 told Jewish leaders that he remembered \u201cspending time at\u201d and \u201cgoing to\u201d the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after the mass murder of 11 people there in 2018. The synagogue said he never visited and the White House later said he was thinking about a 2019 phone call to the synagogue\u2019s rabbi. Also last September, Biden told an Idaho audience that his \u201cfirst job offer\u201d came from local lumber and wood products business Boise Cascade. The company said it was news to them and Biden had not previously described an interest in moving to the state. And In May, Biden said at the Naval Academy\u2019s graduation ceremony that he was appointed to the military school in 1965 by the late Sen. J. Caleb Boggs (R-Del.). A search of Boggs\u2019 archives failed to turn up evidence of the appointment. NEWS COLLECTED FROM NEW YORK POST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, Broadcasting news corporation : President Biden asked for the late Rep. Jackie Walorski to identify herself at a Washington event Wednesday, forgetting that the Indiana Republican died in a car crash last month. Biden made the embarrassing error while thanking bipartisan members of Congress at a nutrition event near the White House. \u201cI want …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9138,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136\/revisions\/9138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}