As the party continues to face an uphill battle in next week’s midterm elections, the President addressed a series of three rallies in the state to drum up support, but ended up making a series of strange gaffes. The 79-year-old confused the US war in Iraq with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, said his son Beau died in Iraq and claimed to have met the “inventor” of insulin. In a point that President Biden regularly makes in public speeches, he tried to blame the rising costs on Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has sent energy prices skyrocketing. Instead, he mixed up his geography and history, saying: “Inflation is a global problem right now because of a war in Iraq and the impact on oil and what Russia is doing,” before interjecting: “Sorry, the war in Ukraine ». He then added: “I’m thinking of Iraq because that’s where my son died.” Beau Biden died after a battle with brain cancer in May 2015 in Maryland, aged 46. He had returned from a yearlong deployment to Iraq five years earlier. Biden was also mocked online for claiming to have “spoken” to the man who “invented” insulin, one of whom died a year before Biden was born. Follow the latest updates below.
