Biden Misses Kennedy's Assassination By A Decade, Places It In 'Late 70s'

In his latest foot in mouth moment, former Vice President Joe Biden almost missed a decade when he said that Sen. Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were murdered in the late 70s.

Biden, 76, told during a speech in Iowa that Kennedy and King's assassinations took place in the “70s, the late 70s”. He was comparing the time of his early adulthood to that of today. Both the assassinations were a significant event of the late 1960s, however, as Kennedy and King were assassinated months apart in the year 1968.

“Just like in my generation, when I got out of school, when Bobby Kennedy and Dr. King had been assassinated in the ’70s, the late ’70s when I got engaged … ,” Biden said in the speech. He did, however, correct himself later and revert back the original date.

This was the latest in a string of gaffes for the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Biden had recently praised the Republicans in a fundraiser, calling them “awfully good” and “decent.” He said that his comments about the Republicans could get him in trouble with the Democrats.

Biden’s statement about “poor kids” being just as smart as “white kids” last month and the former Vice President confusing the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for Theresa May on multiple occasions too had managed to grab the headlines.

President Donald Trump too has passed jibes at Biden for his slip-ups saying the former Vice President was “not playing with a full deck” and that Biden doesn’t have a clue that they were playing in a big and complicated world.

While there have been concerns on whether Biden is the right choice to take on President Trump, a recent CNN poll revealed that he still leads the Democratic pack, hopefully with a massive double-digit lead.