Former President Barack Obama campaigned for his former Vice President, Joe Biden, in Philadelphia on Wednesday, offering a somewhat bizarre endorsement: “You’re better than nobody.”
Obama, reading from a teleprompter, appeared to be quoting a statement by Biden’s parents:
I came to admire Joe as a man who has learned early on to treat everybody he meets with dignity and respect. Living by the words his parents taught him: “No one is better than you, Joe, but you are better than nobody.” And that empathy, that decency, that belief that everybody counts — that is who Joe is. That’s who he’ll be.
Obama seemed to realize that the text sounded odd: he paused after the words “you are.”
The former president stumped for Biden in a key battleground state, where Biden’s lead in some polls has been shrinking. The state was a key to President Donald Trump’s victory in 2016.
The Biden campaign is also concerned about Trump’s potential to attract black voters, a traditionally Democratic constituency to which Trump has made direct appeals throughout his presidency.
Obama also said of his notoriously gaffe-prone former deputy that if he were elected president, Americans would no longer have to worry about their president saying something “crazy” every day.
The drive-in rally was held before an audience of supporters honking in their cars.
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