The eighty-one-year-old US president claimed he “wasn’t very smart” for traveling widely in the weeks before the Atlanta event, when he fared so badly that both allies and opponents urged him to withdraw from the presidential contest.
At a Virginia campaign event on Tuesday, Mr. Biden said to supporters, “I decided to travel around the world a couple of times, going through about 100 time zones.”
He went on, saying he “came back and nearly fell asleep on stage” and “didn’t listen” to his crew.
That’s an explanation, not an excuse, he said, acknowledging that it wasn’t his best night.
It was unclear at first whether Biden was kidding because the Biden campaign forbids media organizations from filming fundraisers, according to News’.
During two separate journeys over the course of two weeks last month, the president traveled to France and Italy. On June 15, he flew overnight from the G7 summit in Bari to Los Angeles to speak at a fundraiser with former President Barack Obama before returning to Washington the next day.
