President Biden tripped onstage during a speech when he joined Govenor Kathy Hochul in Yonkers on Sunday in an effort to help her try to hold off GOP challenger Lee Zeldin.
Biden was also snapped at a protester who was taunting him saying, “No more drilling. There is no more drilling. I haven’t formed any new drilling,” Biden said.
The confused-sounding Biden tried to subdue the protester and return to his speech.
Biden and Hochul gave their speech at Sarah Lawrence College. The rally was attended by hundreds and was where Biden at one point stumbled on the stage and appeared to lose his footing.
“Whoops,” he said as he righted himself.
The 79-year-old Biden was able to correct the error and continue on unlike in June when he fell off his bike, or the time when he stumbled while walking up the stairs to Air Force One last year.
“New York, you got two days, two days to make sure the rest of your state knows the good that they’ve got in Kathy Hochul,” Biden said.
During the speech, the president brought up Zeldin’s voting record as a congressman, slamming the Republican for voting against the Democratic agenda, including Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
“It’s going to reduce the cost of everything that New Yorkers pay for every month,” Biden said. “You know, Congressman Zeldin voted against that as well.”
However, the trip up isn’t the only fumble the 79-year-old president made during the speech. Biden also misgendered the German chancellor at the G7 leaders’ summit in the United Kingdom, referring to Olaf Scholz as “she.”
Biden’s long-winded speech was interrupted when he saw someone who had fainted in the audience and called out for medical help from the stage.
The president received cheers as the medics assisted the individual and the president assured the crowd the person was being taken care of.
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who also spoke at the event stating, “If Democrats turn out in record numbers, she will win. But we can’t be complacent. We can’t take it for granted. We can’t say, ‘Oh, New York is a Democratic state, I don’t have to vote,’ ” Schumer told the crowd, adding they need to fight against “the MAGA Republican war on women and their radical anti-choice agenda.”
