President Biden fended off a group of hecklers on Monday — telling one of them “you look crazy” — as he delivered his final speech before the midterm elections in a deeply Democratic part of Maryland.
“You’re a disgrace!” the first of multiple hecklers shouted at Biden during a rally for gubernatorial candidate Wes Moore just outside Washington.
“I tell you what, let him sing! Let the man sing,” Biden said, before reverse-heckling another disruptive guest.
“Hey man, don’t jump. You look crazy enough to jump,” the president told the second heckler, who was wearing a US flag top hat at the historically black Bowie State University.
A pool reporter said that three hecklers were removed and that all were white men. Another journalist at the event, Sonia Dridi of France 24, tweeted that she observed at least five hecklers being removed.
Biden spent just 20 minutes speaking during his only public remarks of the day and managed to stay on message after he veered off-script repeatedly over the weekend.
The White House issued a groveling apology Saturday to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WVa.) after Biden’s Friday remarks near San Diego that “we’re going to be shutting these [coal] plants down all across America and having wind and solar.”
On Sunday, Biden boasted in New York that he hadn’t expanded oil drilling on federal lands — saying, “there is no more drilling… I haven’t formed any new drilling” — despite spending months rejecting Republican blame for high gas prices, in part by blaming oil companies for not drilling more.
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