Joe Biden challenges an elected Republican who died last August

“Where’s Jackie?“asked Joe Biden during a speech devoted to the fight against obesity and food insecurity, Wednesday, September 28. Problem : the American president arrested Jackie Walorski, an elected Republican, when she died at the beginning of August. Joe Biden was well aware of his death, since he said to himself “shocked and saddened” in a statement, and that he is to meet his family on Friday.

So, has the Democratic president forgotten the death of the parliamentarian? The White House spokeswoman tried to explain the clumsiness. “A law will be signed in his honor on Friday, so of course it was on his mind. She was at the top of the president’s agenda.”she said. Joe Biden is known for his sometimes embarrassing blunders, like last year, when at the end of a press conference, he couldn’t remember the name of his Australian counterpart. Absences which, according to his detractors, would be a sign of the decline of the mental health of the president. To 79 years old Joe Biden is the oldest elected president in the history of the United States. But the elected Democrat defends himself: his hesitations are due, according to him, to a stuttering which he had to fight all his life.