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White House explains ‘We finally beat Medicare’ debate flub
The Hill ^ | 7/03/24 | Tara Suter

Posted on 07/03/2024 7:06:48 PM PDT by Libloather

The White House on Wednesday explained what President Biden meant when he misspoke and said “We finally beat Medicare” in last week’s presidential debate.

“He meant to say he beat big pharma,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a briefing when asked about the president’s words. “I mean, that’s what he meant to say.”

The statement about Medicare by the president last Thursday night left some confused, and the president has faced an overall negative review of his performance in the debate against former President Trump. The debate, in which Biden spoke with a raspy voice and stumbled over his words, sent Democrats into a state of panic, and sparked questions about if the president should remain at the top of his party’s ticket.

On Wednesday, the White House was insistent that Biden is not leaving the presidential race, and Biden said in a fundraising email the same day that nobody “is pushing” him “out.”

“I’m the Democratic Party’s nominee,” the fundraising email reads. “No one is pushing me out. I’m not leaving, I’m in this race to the end, and WE are going to win this election. If that’s all you need to hear, pitch in a few bucks to help [Vice President Harris] and me defeat Donald Trump in November.”

Some Democrats have even called for Biden to step out of the race or be replaced as the Democratic nominee. On Tuesday, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) became the first House Democrat to publicly push Biden to leave the presidential race in the wake of the debate.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: beat; biden; bidensmentaldecline; debate; flub; kjp; medicare; prezdebate
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I'm for Brandon. You're for Brandon. The radical, leftist, socialist, commie base is for Brandon. (Okay, maybe not the Hamas wing - they're nuts) At this point - WHO IS AGAINST BRANDON?
1 posted on 07/03/2024 7:06:48 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Except drug prices aren’t lower. Or don’t seem to be.


2 posted on 07/03/2024 7:08:51 PM PDT by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: Libloather

He made billions and billions for Big Pharma.

If that was what he meant, it was a lie.

Of course the kooky press secretary could be the one lying.

Welcome to 2024.


3 posted on 07/03/2024 7:09:08 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Libloather

When do we get to beat KJP?


4 posted on 07/03/2024 7:09:09 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Libloather

Is there any chance Biden can get 60 GOP senators elected? It would be good to have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, plus the House, plus the Supreme Court, plus the presidency.


5 posted on 07/03/2024 7:11:11 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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MEDIA LIED BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T WANT TO SIDE WITH TRUMP SUPPORTERS.



6 posted on 07/03/2024 7:11:12 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: Libloather

guess we’re supposed to ignore whatever Joe says ad wait for his wife or the mop to tell us what he thinks.


7 posted on 07/03/2024 7:12:01 PM PDT by Aria
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To: Libloather

They BEAT Big Pharma?

The very same Big Pharma they are in bed with? The same Big Pharma that told CDC to make sure their vaccines got into every American arm? The same Big Pharma that told CDC to deride Ivermectin? The same Big Pharma that funds Fauci? The same Big Pharma that told the Fed Gov how to respond to COVID?

THAT Big Pharma?

Yeah, they sure beat that Big Pharma.


8 posted on 07/03/2024 7:12:14 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Libloather

Who gives a rip? Not me. Old fool.


9 posted on 07/03/2024 7:12:30 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (The Government that got us in this mess is not the Government that can get us out of it.)
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To: Libloather

It took them a week to come up with that nonsense? Weak


10 posted on 07/03/2024 7:12:55 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Libloather

His brain regurgitated something obscure that seemed to fit his mood at the time...and it was the best that he could muster. Just tell it like it is.


11 posted on 07/03/2024 7:13:27 PM PDT by know.your.why
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To: Libloather

[[“I mean, that’s what he meant to say.”]]

Well thanks spin miester-

What Karine meant to say was “Yeah, he blew it big time”


12 posted on 07/03/2024 7:13:57 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Libloather

Is President Retard still talking to dead people?


13 posted on 07/03/2024 7:15:15 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Libloather

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/2024/jan/how-prices-first-10-drugs-medicare-negotiations-compare-internationally


14 posted on 07/03/2024 7:16:15 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Libloather

How does she explain the raping in-laws, sisters and siblings.


15 posted on 07/03/2024 7:16:59 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Libloather

He raised Medicare advantage premiums


16 posted on 07/03/2024 7:17:50 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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> He meant to say he beat big pharma,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said… <

I can really sympathize with Biden here. Last week I went to buy a new truck. But I misspoke, and ended up asking for a new duck. So now I don’t have a new truck. But I do have a new duck.


17 posted on 07/03/2024 7:18:03 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Libloather

My opinion is if he had any lucidity, he meant to say “we finally beat COVID.”

I say that because he was rambling and Covid was in there. He lost his train of thought.

And his cognitively impaired brain went back to over an over trained point: I beat Covid and Trump failed.


18 posted on 07/03/2024 7:20:43 PM PDT by laxcoach (The secret to happiness is a bait pen full of pinfish.)
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To: cgbg

He meant to say that they beat Big Pharma? LOLOLOLOL!

The rule of holes says that when you’re in one, stop digging.


19 posted on 07/03/2024 7:26:29 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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Keep on trucking ducking . . .
20 posted on 07/03/2024 7:28:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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