Because with an election against a POTUS* who has lied over 10,000 times, language is important.
“I am a gaffe machine,” Biden said. “But, my God, what a wonderful thing compared to a guy who can’t tell the truth.”
CNN’s Brianna Keilar questioned Joe Biden senior advisor Symone Sanders this afternoon on some recent gaffes from the former veep.
Keilar brought up how Biden recently talked about meeting with students from Parkland while he was vice president (he was not VP at the time, one campaign official said he was thinking of Sandy Hook) and asked Sanders, “Do you think voters care about this? And why should they overlook these gaffes?”
Sanders responded, “This is a press narrative, not a voter narrative. If you were to look at the coverage in Iowa this weekend and juxtapose the local newspapers and local television coverage to national media coverage you would have thought these reporters were at two different events.”
She said she won’t tell the press how to do their jobs, but added everyone should “elevate the conversation” and that “we cannot allow this election to devolve in a tit for tat over name-calling and ‘gaffes,’ something that does not matter. This is not something that’s registering with the American people.”