Fresh off a poor first-debate performance, President Joe Biden and his campaign sought to paint GOP rival Donald Trump as a liar for his claims during the June debate. However, the president made several untrue claims of his own since the June 27 appearance.
For example, as public scrutiny ramped up on Biden’s mental capacity in light of his halting debate performance, the president claimed that he had been transparent with his medical records. During the debate, Biden appeared disoriented and struggled to find the right words to use at the right time, Just the News reported, which raised questions in the media and the general public about his fitness for office.
“By the way, in terms of my neurological capacity, I had a physical, a neurological physical as well, in February. It’s released. I released all my records. All of them. And I have a neurological test every day,” Biden said during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday.
Yet Biden has never released his full medical records, only letters from his physician, Kevin O’Connor, the Washington Post reported. Under pressure, the White House released a letter this week from O’Connor that says Biden has been examined by a neurologist during each of his annual physicals.
Biden again misspoke after it was reported that Virginia Sen. Mark Warner was trying to form a group of fellow Senate Democrats to ask Biden, also a Democrat, to drop out of the presidential race.
When asked about the effort during an interview days after the debate with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, Biden said: “Well, Mark [Warner] is a good man. We’ve never had – he also tried to get the nomination too.”
Warner never ran for the Democratic nomination, though he considered it in 2008.
In that same interview with ABC News, Biden claimed that he gained a point in the polls after the debate.
“The New York Times had me down 10 points before the debate, nine now, or whatever the hell it is,” he said.
In fact, the Times’ post-debate poll showed that Biden polled three points worse against his opponent following the debate and he was not originally “down 10 points,” but only down by three points originally – the gap widening to six.
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