NEW HAMPTON, Iowa — The voter who was verbally attacked by Joe Biden urged the former vice president to drop out of the race and called him too old while speaking to reporters after the campaign event.
Biden, 77, accosted the man who was in attendance for a Thursday afternoon campaign event in Iowa after the 83-year-old was asked about his role in his son Hunter Biden’s work with Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company. The former Delaware senator called the man “a damn liar,” which prompted the man to argue that he heard that Biden had personal intentions when advocating for the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor.
“You see it on the TV? I know you do. By the way, that’s why I’m not sedentary … The reason I’m running is that I’ve been around a long time, and I know more than most people know, and I can get things done. That’s why I’m running,” Biden countered. “And if you wanna check out my shape on, let’s do push-ups together, man. Let’s run; let’s do whatever you want to do.”
The Iowa voter who Joe Biden called a “damn liar” speaks with reporters after their tense exchange: “At least he’s not getting so old that he’s senile.” https://t.co/jUThLG82gh pic.twitter.com/UGSNrBt9ei
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 5, 2019
Biden also challenged the man, who is a self-proclaimed Sen. Elizabeth Warren supporter who also likes Sen. Bernie Sanders, to a push-up contest and appeared to make a negative comment about his weight. The man added that he’s not worried about Warren nor Sanders’ age, despite them being over 70 years old.
After the event, the man, who refused to give his name, told reporters after the confrontation that Biden should drop out of the race. “It was all softball stuff, he don’t want to answer the hard stuff,” the voter added. “He’s been in the Congress all of his life, and all of these problems like high drug prices and all of that — where in the hell has he been for the last 50 years?”
“Stick it up your ass, fella.”
Voter that challenged @JoeBiden gets into confrontation with another voter that told him to “get out of here.”
?: @EmilyELarsen pic.twitter.com/VSz8u2yWC0
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) December 5, 2019
CORRECTION: In a previous version of this story, the Washington Examiner reported that the voter had said that Biden was “senile.” New audio shows that he said the opposite, that Biden was “not getting so old that he’s senile anyhow.” This article has been corrected accordingly. The Washington Examiner regrets the error.
