President Joe Biden began wandering around the stage when Vice President Kamala Harris was making prepared remarks on Monday, and later mispronounced a member of Congress’ name after admitting White House staff asked him to not read names aloud.
When music playing on Harris ended, Biden turned to his left and began shuffling behind her, then stopped and turned back around after she said, “Good afternoon everyone, please have a seat. Good afternoon.”
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“I started off when I had the list, I said gimme the – and it started off, I said Sheri Butros,” Biden said mispronouncing the name of Rep. Cheri Bustos.
“They said, ‘wait there’s a lot of people on here don’t do it,’ anyway, but, [unintelligible] the people who are here are John Hickenlooper, Cheri Butros, Dan Kildee, Tom O’Halloran, Eliza Slotkin, excuse me, uh uh Elissa Slotkin, and uh, and representative Sansbury,” Biden continued.
“High speed internet is not a luxury any longer,” Biden said during the event unveiling an internet program for low-income communities in the Rose Garden. “It’s a necessity, and that’s why the bipartisan infrastructure law included $65 billion to make sure we expand access to broadband internet in every region of the country.”
“This is a case where big business stepped up. We’re trying to get others to do the same thing,” Biden said. “It’s going to change peoples’ lives.”
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are both deep underwater in their approval ratings, polls show, but a new one shows Harris’s approval rating is 18 points worse than her boss’s.
Meanwhile, Biden’s approval ratting hovers around 39% while 55% disapprove.
When sorted by party affiliation, 13.5% of Republicans approve of Harris’s job performance, along with 23.5% of independent voters. Only a slim majority of Democrats approve of Harris’s job, with 51.5% giving her the nod.
