Biden was emerging from his Delaware campaign headquarters when the car ploughed into an SUV guarding his motorcade

Biden was emerging from his Delaware campaign headquarters when the car ploughed into an SUV guarding his motorcade

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden were rushed to safety by the Secret Service after a car suddenly ploughed into a parked SUV that was guarding the presidential motorcade.

Mr Biden was walking out of his campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday night to his waiting armoured SUV when a silver copper sedan hit a US Secret Service vehicle that was closing off intersections for the president’s departure.

The sedan, which carried a Delaware licence plate, then tried to continue into a closed-off intersection, before Secret Service personnel surrounded the vehicle with their weapons drawn and instructed the driver to put his hands up.

Mr Biden was captured looking stunned and froze when he heard the loud bang close by.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    For people arguing Biden isn’t too old to be president…

    This points out he’s not spending the next two years just being president, he’s running for president at the same time.

    It’s a shit ton to expect out of someone in their mid 80s.

    We’d be better off if he stepped aside and focused on one job he’s 20 years too old for instead of fumbling one for two years and now adding another.

    At least one of the two will fall behind, maybe both

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Have you seen the polls?

        Biden isn’t the best chance against trump.

        trump is the best chance politicians like Hillary and Biden had/have at becoming president

        We’re 1/2, and polling for round three is a lot worse than last time.

      • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Bernie, if he chose to run, which it seems he’s firmly decided not to. But, if he did, he would (imo of course) probably defeat Biden in the primary, and then completely obliterate the general.

        The drive to find a viable “outsider” is stronger than ever, and Bernie has that, while also having a pretty firm lock on the moral high ground to shell Trump from. Biden has unfortunately lost that edge, due to his staunch support for Israel, which many of us consider to be the incorrect position in the modern day and are trying hard to pressure him away from.

        I don’t think Bernie wants to, though. I think he’s okay supporting Biden, all things considered, and is also getting rather old himself. He blazed the trail that other progressives will have to follow to keep that torch aloft, and someday carry it into the presidency.

        • Zippy@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          Bernie would lose a great number of center votes. The guy was praising Chavez and Venezuela not that long ago. It is easy for him to suggest all these programs when he knows there is no way to pay for it.

        • ripcord@kbin.social
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          9 months ago

          That doesn’t really follow.

          You’re saying that no other democrat would poll worse?

          So, Jimmy Carter would have a better chance of being elected? Hillary Clinton? My 70-year old rambling uncle?

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The article says that Biden “looked stunned and froze”, but there is video embedded in the article and it’s clear that Biden was stunned in the sense of “Holy shit, what was that?”, and not in terms of having some sort of episode. But now we’re gonna get all the idiots reminding us that they think Biden is too old for all this.

    • cmbabul@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I mean Biden is too old, so is Trump, so is Nancy, so are most of the folks currently running our government. It’s a problem, but it’s not one unique to Joe, it’s systemic

      Biden the a far better and more mentally qualified candidate than Trump for virtually any position but especially president, not to mention not expressing desires to be a dictator or echoed Hitler.

    • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      that they think Biden is too old for all this.

      He IS too old for this…so is Trump. The fate of the US is in the hands of the coronary health of two fucking assholes that should be in nursing homes.